Afterwards, Vladimir led an army to devastate Polotsk, killing Rogvolod and his two sons, while taking Rogneda as a wife. According to Jonathan Shepard and...
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known prince of Polotsk was Rogvolod (ruled 945–978). He had two sons and a daughter named Rogneda. Rogvolod promised Rogneda to the prince of Kiev, Yaropolk...
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Vladimirovich (978–1001) was the son of Vladimir I of Kiev and Rogneda of Polotsk. He was the progenitor of the Polotsk branch of Rurikid princes known as the...
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country residence of Berestovo.[citation needed] He is also said to have had pagan wives, the most well-known being Rogneda of Polotsk.[citation needed]...
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Yaroslav the Wise (redirect from Yaroslav I, Prince of Kiev)
name was George after Saint George. Yaroslav was a son of Vladimir the Great and Rogneda of Polotsk. Yaroslav ruled the northern lands around Rostov before...
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support from Polotsk. To achieve this, Vladimir proposed to Rogneda, Rogvolod's daughter. She declined, thus making Polotsk an ally of Yaropolk. Vladimir...
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who was the prince of Polotsk, besieged Pskov, but was defeated. In the winter of 1066–1067, he also attacked Novgorod. The prince of Novgorod at the time...
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Vladimir the Great (redirect from Vladimir of Kiev)
prince of Polotsk, to sue for the hand of his daughter Rogneda (Norse: Ragnhild). The high-born princess refused to affiance herself to the son of a bondswoman...
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Rogvolod (redirect from Ragvalod of Polotsk)
who took his daughter Rogneda as a wife. In the Primary Chronicle, he is known as Рогъволодъ, probably a slavicized version of the Old Norse name Ragnvald...
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the son of Bryachislav Izyaslavich, Prince of Polotsk and Vitebsk, and was thus the great-grandson of Vladimir I of Kiev and Rogneda of Polotsk. He was...
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