- Anastasia of Kiev
Anastasia of Kiev (c.
1023 –1074 /1096 ) wasQueen of Hungary as the wife of King Andrew the White. She was the eldest daughter of Grand PrinceYaroslav I the Wise ofKiev and Ingigerd of Sweden, and the older sister ofAnne of Kiev , Queen consort ofHenry I of France .Around
1039 , Anastasia was married to Duke Andrew of Hungary, who had settled down inKiev after his fatherVazul took part in a failed assassination attempt aimed at KingStephen I of Hungary .In
1046 , her husband returned toHungary and ascended the throne as King Andrew I after defeating King Peter I. Anastasia followed her husband to the kingdom. It was probably she who persuaded her husband to set up alavra inTihany for hermits who had come to Hungary from theKievan Rus' . The royal couple did not have a son till1053 , when Anastasia gave birth to Solomon. However, Solomon's birth and later coronation caused an embittered conflict between King Andrew I and his younger brother Duke Béla, who had been the heir to the throne till the child's birth.When Duke Béla rose in open rebellion against King Andrew in
1060 , the king sent his wife and children to the court ofAdalbert, Margrave of Austria . King Andrew was defeated and died shortly afterwards, and his brother was crownedKing of Hungary on6 December 1060 .Anastasia sought the help of King Henry IV of
Germany , whose sister, Judith had been engaged to the child Solomon in1058 . By the time the German troops entered toHungary to give assistance to Solomon against his uncle, King Béla I died on11 September 1063 had died and his sons, Géza, Ladislaus and Lampert fled toPoland .The young Solomon was crowned around
27 September 1063 . On the occasion of her son's coronation, Anastasia presented the alleged sword ofAttila the Hun to Duke Otto II ofBavaria who was the leader of the German troops. Between1060 and1073 King Solomon governed his kingdom in collaboration with his cousins, Dukes Géza, Ladislaus and Lampert who had returned to Hungary and accepted his rule. However, in1074 the three brothers rebelled against their cousin, and defeated him on14 March 1074 . King Solomon run to the Western borders ofHungary where he could only maintain his rule only over the counties of Moson and Pozsony (Slovak: "Bratislava").Anastasia followed her son, but they began to argue with each other and she moved to
Admont Abbey where she lived as a nun till her death. She was buried in the Abbey.Marriage and children
"# c. 1039:" King
Andrew I of Hungary (c.1015 – before6 December 1060 )
* Adelaide (c. 1040 – 27 January 1062), wife of kingVratislaus II of Bohemia
* KingSolomon of Hungary (1053 – 1087 or after)
*David of Hungary (after 1053 – after 1094)ources
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