Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Kievian Rus' Empire (Historical); Grand Princess
• FSID: LD91-ST3

Notes:

"Ingegerd Olofsdotter was a Swedish princess and a Grand Princess of Kiev. She was the daughter of Swedish King Olof Skötkonung and Estrid of the Obotrites and the consort of Yaroslav I the Wise of Kiev."

"Olof Skötkonung arranged for the marriage of Princess Ingegerd to the powerful Yaroslav the Wise of Novgorod with whom Sweden had a flourishing trade relationship. The marriage took place in 1019."

"Once in Kiev, Ingegerd had her NAME CHANGED to the Greek Irene."

"Together Ingegerd and Yaroslav had six (6) sons and four (4) daughters; three of the latter becoming Queens of France, Hungary, and Norway. The whole family is depicted in one of the frescoes of the Saint Sophia."

"Ingegerd died on 10 February 1050. Upon her death, according to different sources, Ingegerd was buried in *EITHER* Saint Sophia's Cathedral in Kiev *OR* Cathedral of St. Sophia in Novgorod."

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Ingrid married of Kievian Rus', Grand Prince Yaroslav I in 1019 in Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden. Yaroslav (son of Svyatoslavich, Vladimir I and of the Byzantine Empire, Anna Porphyrogenita) was born in 978 in Kiev, Ukraine; died on 20 Feb 1054 in Vyshgorod, Ryazan, Russia; was buried on 26 Feb 1054 in Saint Sophia's Cathedral, Kiev, Ukraine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Yaroslavna, Anne was born in 1030 in Kievian Rus' Empire (Historical); died on 5 Sep 1075 in La Forêt, Essonne, Île-de-France, France; was buried after 5 Sep 1075 in La Forêt, Essonne, Île-de-France, France.

Other Events and Attributes:

• House: Ynglinge
• FSID: L8YY-5HK
• Appointments / Titles: Between 995 and 1022, Sweden; King of Sweden

Notes:

Click on this. Read it. Understand that Olof had two wives:

"Olof was the son of Eric the Victorious (Erik Segersäll) and a woman whose identity is debated. According to Adam of Bremen, she was the sister or daughter of Boleslaw I Chrobry of Poland, according to Icelandic sources she was Sigrid the Haughty (Sigrid Storråda), a daughter of the Viking chief Skoglar Toste. Certain sources say that Olof had a brother called Emunde.

>>> "With his first spouse (a mistress), EDLA, daughter of a Slavic chief, he had three children:
- EMUND THE OLD, King of Sweden in c. 1050-1060
- ASTRID, d. after 1035, married to Olaf II of Norway (Olaf the Saint)
- HOLMFRID, married to Sven Jarl of Norway

>>> "With his second spouse, Queen ESTRID of the Obotrites, he had two children:
- ANUND JAKOB, King of Sweden in 1022-c. 1050
- INGEGERD, d. 1050, married to Yaroslav I of Kiev"

"Olof Skötkonung led a Viking expedition to Wendland early in his reign. He captured Edla, the daughter of a Wendish chieftain, and kept her as mistress. She gave him the son Emund (who was to become king of Sweden), and the daughters Astrid (later wife of Olaf II of Norway) and Holmfrid (married to Sven Jarl of Norway). He later married Estrid of the Obotrites, and she bore him the son Anund Jacob and the daughter Ingegerd Olofsdotter."

"He succeeded his father in c. 995. He stands at the threshold of recorded history, since he is the first Swedish ruler about whom there is substantial knowledge. He is regarded as the first king known to have ruled both the Swedes and the Geats."

"One of many explanations to the name Skötkonung is that it is derived from the Swedish word "skatt", which can mean either "taxes" or "treasure". The latter meaning has given the interpretation "tributary king" and one English scholar speculates about a tributary relationship to the Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard, who was his stepfather."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Sk%C3%B6tkonung

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Olaf married of the Obodrites, Queen Estrid. Estrid was born in 979 in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany; was christened in 1008 in Husaby Kyrka, Götene, Västra Götaland, Sweden; died in 1035 in Götene, Västra Götaland, Sweden; was buried in 1035 in Husaby Kyrka, Götene, Västra Götaland, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Queen Consort of Sweden, Princess of the Obotrites
• FSID: L8WB-D2Z

Notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrid_of_the_Obotrites

Estrid of the Obotrites (c. 979 – 1035) was Queen of Sweden in the Viking age, a West Slavic princess married to Olof Skötkonung, King of Sweden c. 1000–1022. She was the mother of King Anund Jacob of Sweden and the Kievan Rus' saint and grand princess Ingegerd Olofsdotter.

Biography
Legend says that Estrid was taken back to Sweden from a war in the West Slavic area of Mecklenburg as a war-prize. She was most likely given by her father, a tribal chief of the Polabian Obotrites, as a peace offering in a marriage to seal the peace, and she is thought to have brought with her a great dowry, as a great Slavic influence is represented in Sweden from her time, mainly among craftsmen.

Her husband also had a mistress, Edla, who came from the same area in Europe as herself, and who was possibly taken to Sweden at the same time. The king treated Edla and Estrid the same way and gave his son and his two daughters with Edla the same privileges as the children he had with Estrid, though it was Estrid he married and made queen.

Queen Estrid was baptised with her husband, their children and large numbers of the Swedish royal court in 1008, when the Swedish royal family converted to Christianity, although the king promised to respect the freedom of religion - Sweden was not to be Christian until the last religious war between Inge the Elder and Blot-Sweyn of 1084–1088.

Snorre Sturlasson wrote about her, that Estrid was unkind to the children (Emund, Astrid and Holmfrid) of her husband's mistress Edla;

" Queen Estrid was arrogant and not kind towards her stepchildren, and therefore the king sent his son Emund to Vendland, where he was brought up by his maternal relatives".
Not much is known of Estrid as a person. Snorre Sturlasson mentions her as a lover of pomp and luxury, and as hard and strict towards her servants.