Ragnheid of Poland

   Another name for Ragnheid is Rogneda von Polotzk.

  General Notes:

Weis's Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 241:4, St. Valadimir, Grand Prince of Kiev, married as his second wife, Rogneide, daughter of Rogvolod, Prince of Polotsk, and mother of both Dobronega who married Kazimierz I and Iaroslav, "the wise." ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Vkadunur Sviatoslvich.
Vladmir's first wife was Rogned of Polostk, widow of the Jarl in Sweeden daughter of Rogvolod, prince of Polotsk. The Primary Chronicle names Rogned, daughter of Rogvolod Prince of Polotsk, recording that she at first refused to marry Vladimir, preferring his half-brother Yaropolk [Russian Primary Chronicle (1973), 978-980, p. 91]. They later divorced and Rogned became a nun.

Ragnheid married Vladimir Grand Prince of Kiev, son of Sviatoslav, Prince of Kiev and Malusha. ¹⁶⁰ (Vladimir Grand Prince of Kiev was born in Kiev, Ukraine and died on 15 Jul 1015 in Kiev, Ukraine ¹⁶⁰.)