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Maria (b. ca. 1140 - d. after 1173), was by marriage High Duchess of Poland.
By the majority of historians and web sources, her parentage is unknown;[1][2][3] however, others authors believed that she was a daughter of Rostislav I Mstislavich, Grand Prince of Kiev.[4]
Life
Is unknown when exactly took place the marriage between High Duke Bolesław IV of Poland and Maria; the death of Bolesław IV's first wife, Princess Viacheslava of Novgorod took place around the 1160s, and is assumed that Bolesław IV took his second wife soon after, between 1160-1165.
About Maria's life nothing is known; she is only named in a charter dated on 31 December 1167, under which the Chapter of Kraków was granted with two villages.
Earlier literature assumed that she was the mother of Leszek; however, after the discovery of coins were Leszek called himself son of Anastasia (the Latin or Greek equivalent of High Duchess Viacheslava), this theory proved to be inaccurate.[5]
References
- ^ POLAND
- ^ Complete Genealogy of the House of Piast
- ^ Chronological dates in Stoyan
- ^ Poczet Królowych i żon władców Polski, Warsaw 2006.
- ^ Borys Paszkiewicz, O matce Lestka Bolesławica i początkach mennictwa mazowieckiego, Przegląd Historyczny, vol. 92 (2001), pp. 1-14.