Eupraxia of Kiev was born circa 1070 as the daughter of Vsevolod I, Prince of Kiev and his wife, Anna. As with many women from the medieval eastern European Kingdom of Rus’, there is very little information about her, despite the fact that she married a Holy Roman Emperor. There is just one surviving primary source [read more]
Olga of Kiev was born at an unknown date (possibly as early as 890 or as late as 925) as the daughter of unknown parents. She married Igor of Kiev, and they had a son named Svyatoslav together. Igor was killed while collecting tribute from the Drevlians(a tribe of Early East Slavs) in 945. When [read more]
Many royal women sought a religious life, especially after the deaths of their husbands or even from their early childhood. I have compiled a list, probably incomplete, of many of those female saints. Adelaide of Italy Adelaide was born around 931 and she was respectively Queen of Italy as the wife of Lothair II of [read more]
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