Agnes( Agnieszka ) was a Polish princess and she was born a member of the House of Piast . She was married to Mstislav II, of Kiev of Kievan Rus' which was a " a loose federation of East Slavic tribes in Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century"[1].Kievan Rus' was the early part of what is known as the Ukrainian state now. She probaby died there after 1182 [2].
She was the mother of , at least , three sons [3] :
Roman Mstislavich (c. 1152– murdered 1205)
Sviatoslav Mstislavich, Prince of Brest
Vsevolod Mstislavich of Volhynia, Prince of Belz, Prince of Volodymyr-Volynsky (died 1196)
AGNIESZKA ([1137/38]-after 1182). The Translatio Manus sancti Stephani names "filiam suam [=Salome uxor [Bolezlai Bolionorum ducis] Agnetam". The Chronicon Polono-Silesiacum names "primogenitum sororis sue [=Mieszko III] nomine Romanum patrem Danielis", but does not specify which sister was his mother, when recording Mieszko's military campaign to help restore Roman in Galicia. Baumgarten names and records the parentage of the wife of Mstislav and cites sources in support. m ([1151/52]) MSTISLAV Iziaslavich Prince of Vladimir in Volynia, son of IZIASLAV II Mstislavich Grand Prince of Kiev & his second wife --- of Lithuania (-13 Aug [1172]). He succeeded in 1168 as MSTISLAV II "Chabry" Grand Prince of Kiev.
Sources
↑ John Channon & Robert Hudson, Penguin Historical Atlas of Russia (Penguin, 1995), p.16.
↑ Wincenty Kadłubek, Kronika polska, vol. IV, cap. 14, edited by B. Kürbis, Wrocław – Warsaw – Kraków 1992, pp. 214–215.
Pg. 515-521. Domus Bolezlai: Values and social identity in dynastic traditions of medieval Poland (c.966-1138) (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450).By by PRZEMYSLAW WISZEWSKI.
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