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Maria Dobroniega of Kiev

Maria Dobroniega of Kyiv – The Connection between Poland and Kievan Rus

Monday, 31 July 2023, 6:00 CaraBeth 0

In the eleventh through thirteenth centuries, multiple marriages occurred between the Piast dynasty of Poland and the Rurik dynasty of the Kievan Rus. The first Rus princess to marry in Poland was Maria Dobroniega. Parentage There is a lot of controversy surrounding when Maria Dobroniega was born and who her parents exactly were. What is [read more]

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Gertrude of Poland

Gertrude of Poland and her Prayer Book

Wednesday, 7 June 2023, 6:00 CaraBeth 0

Between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, marriages between the Rurikids of the Kyivan Rus and the Piasts of Poland were very common. One of the marriages between a Rus prince and a Polish princess was that of Iziaslav I of Kyiv and Gertrude of Poland. Early Life Gertrude of Poland was born around 1025. She [read more]

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Maria Josepha of Austria

Maria Josepha of Austria – Devotional fervour (Part two)

Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part one here. After being made to renounce her claim to the Habsburg lands by her uncle Charles, Maria Joseph and Frederick Augustus were married on 20 August 1719. Nevertheless, with Charles’s daughters still in their infancy, there remained a distant possibility of succeeding to the Imperial Crown. The couple would go on to [read more]

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Maria Josepha of Austria

Maria Josepha of Austria – Devotional fervour (Part one)

Monday, 1 November 2021, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Maria Josepha of Austria was born on 8 December 1699 as the eldest child of the future Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor and Princess Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg. A younger brother named Leopold Joseph was born the following year, but he died of hydrocephalus before his first birthday. A sister named Maria Amalia was born [read more]

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Dorothea of Courland

Dorothea of Courland – The evening of life (Part five)

Monday, 29 March 2021, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part four here. In France, she was welcomed by her son Louis, and she was also joined by her daughter Pauline with her husband Henri and newborn daughter Marie. Dorothea was delighted by her granddaughter, whom she described as “fair, fat, and fresh, always in a good temper, laughing and restless, a little angel…” [read more]

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Hungary

Maria of Bytom – A Queen in the footnotes

Friday, 22 January 2021, 6:00 CaraBeth 0

Throughout the late middle ages, there are records of queens whose marriages were beneficial to their husbands’ families.  Even though we don’t know much about them, we still know whether or not they fulfilled their most important duty – bearing sons.  Often the queens who did not succeed in this are forgotten and hidden in [read more]

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