Gita Wessex (also Gida ; English Gytha of Wessex ;? - March 10, 1098 or 1107 [1] ?) - Princess of England , daughter of the last reigning Anglo-Saxon King Harold II and Edita Swan Neck , the first wife of Grand Duke Vladimir Vsevolodovich Monomakh .
| Gita Wessex | |
|---|---|
| Birth | OK. 1066 Wessex |
| Death | March 10, 1098 or 1107 |
| Burial place | St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev |
| Rod | Godwin Wessex |
| Father | Harold II Godwinson |
| Mother | Edita Swan Neck |
| Spouse | Vladimir Monomakh |
| Children | Mstislav the Great , Izyaslav , Svyatoslav , Yaropolk , Vyacheslav |
After the death of her father in the Battle of Hastings, she fled to Flanders , then, according to Saxon Grammar , along with her two brothers, settled with her uncle Sven Estridsen , the king of Denmark , who married her to Vladimir Monomakh [2] .
In 1074 she married Vladimir Monomakh , then the prince of Smolensk. Mother of Mstislav the Great , who in Western sources, following his grandfather, bears the name Harald [3] .
A. V. Nazarenko cautiously suggested that the Gita maintained contact with the Panteleimon monastery in Cologne and participated in the 1st Crusade together with Gottfried of Bouillon , died and was buried in Palestine , most likely in 1098 , since a year later Vladimir Monomakh married another woman.
In the “Praise to Saint Panteleimon,” a German church leader of the 1st third of the 12th century, Rupert reported that she was pushed into this step by the incident with her eldest son Mstislav, who had almost died while hunting and was cured after Gita prayers to Saint Panteleimon . The bear ripped Mstislav’s stomach in such a way that the entrails fell out. When he was brought home, his mother Gita began to pray to him for St. Panteleimon. That night, Mstislav saw a young man in a dream who promised to heal him. The next morning this young man, very similar to St. Panteleimon, had already come to see a patient with healing medicines and cured him. After this, the Gita donated a large sum of money to the Cologne monastery and vowed to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem [4] .
According to another version, Gita died in Smolensk in 1107 [1] .
Children
Their children were:
- Mstislav Vladimirovich the Great (1076–1132), the Grand Duke of Kiev from 1125;
- Izyaslav Vladimirovich (1078-1096), Prince of Kursk ;
- Svyatoslav Vladimirovich (1079–1114), Prince Smolensky and Pereyaslavsky ;
- Roman Vladimirovich (1081–1119);
- Yaropolk Vladimirovich (1082–1139), Grand Duke of Kiev from 1132;
- Vyacheslav Vladimirovich (1083–1154), Prince Turovsky, Grand Prince of Kiev in 1139, 1150, 1151–54;
- Maria (Marina) Vladimirovna († 1146/1147), married to the false Leo Diogenes ;
- Evdoksia Vladimirovna;
- Evfimiya Vladimirovna († 1139), married the King of Hungary Kalman I Scribe ;
- Agafya Vladimirovna;
- Gleb Vladimirovich - information about its existence is unreliable and is recognized only by some researchers.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Pashuto V. T. Foreign Policy of Ancient Russia / ed. V.P. Shusharina . - M .: Nauka , 1968. - S. 135. - ISBN 978-5-458-27604-7 .
- ↑ Saxon Grammar. Acts of Dan XI.6.3
- ↑ A. Elnitsky. Guide // Russian biographical dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
- ↑ Morozova, L. Ye. The Great and Unknown Women of Ancient Russia .
Literature
- Morozova L.Ye. Great and Unknown Women of Ancient Russia. - M .: AST, 2009.
- Nazarenko A.V. Ancient Russia on international routes. - M. , 2001. - ISBN 5-7859-0085-8 .
- Pashuto V. T. Foreign Policy of Ancient Russia / ed. V.P. Shusharina . - M .: Science , 1968. - 473 p. - ISBN 978-5-458-27604-7 .
- Khmyrov M. D. Gida Garaldovna // Alphabetical reference list of sovereigns of Russians and the most remarkable persons of their blood . - SPb. Type A. Benke, 1870 .-- S. 27.
- Saxon Grammar . Acts of the Danes . In 2 volumes. I — XVI books / transl. from lat. lang A.S. Dosayeva. - M .: Russian panorama; SPSL, 2017 .-- 1224 p. - T.2. - ISBN 978-93165-369-3 (total.), 978-93165-371-6 (t.2).