Barbara Aleksandrówna (c. 1428 between 1488 and 1492) was a princess and wife of prince
Bolesław IV of Warsaw Boleslav or Bolesław may refer to:
In people:
* Boleslaw (given name)
In geography:
*Bolesław, Dąbrowa County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
*Bolesław, Olkusz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
*Bolesław, Silesian Voivodeship, Pol ...
. She was the daughter of Alexander Włodzimierzowic,
Grand Prince of Kiev
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Between 1440 and 1443 she married Bolesław IV of Warsaw. Her husband died on September 10, 1454.
[Grabowski, p. 477.] After death of her mother-in-law in 1458 she became a regent in the name of her minor sons Konrad III, Bolesław V, Kazimierz III, and Janusz II.
[Grabowski, p. 361.] She usually entitled herself ''ducissa et gubernatrix Mazouie etc''.
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She was buried in ]Nowe Miasto, Płońsk County
Nowe Miasto () is a town in Płońsk County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Nowe Miasto. It lies approximately east of Płońsk and north-west of Warsaw.
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Footnotes
References
*Balzer Oswald, Genealogia Piastów, Akademia Umiejętności, Kraków 1895, p. 523.
*Grabowski Janusz, Dynastia Piastów mazowieckich, Kraków 2012.
*Jasiński Kazimierz, Rodowód Piastów mazowieckich, Wydawnictwo Historyczne, Poznań – Wrocław 1998, ISSN 1509-8702, {{ISBN, 83-913563-0-2, pp. 159–160.
Further reading
*Wolff Adam, Barbara ks. ruska nieznanego pochodzenia, Polski słownik biograficzny
''Polski Słownik Biograficzny'' (''PSB''; Polish Biographical Dictionary) is a Polish-language biographical dictionary, comprising an alphabetically arranged compilation of authoritative biographies of some 25,000 notable Poles and of foreigners ...
, Vol. 1, 1935.
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History of Masovia
15th-century Lithuanian women
15th-century deaths