Maria (c. 1140 – after 1173), was by marriage
High Duchess of Poland.
By the majority of historians and web sources, her parentage is unknown; however, others authors believed that she was a daughter of
Rostislav I Mstislavich,
Grand Prince of Kiev
The Grand Prince of Kiev (sometimes grand duke) was the title of the ruler of Kiev and the ruler of Kievan Rus' from the 10th to 13th centuries. In the 13th century, Kiev became an appanage principality first of the grand prince of Vladimir a ...
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[M. Urbański: ''Poczet Królowych i żon władców Polski'', Warsaw 2006.]
Life
It is unknown when exactly the marriage between High Duke
Bolesław IV 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, ...
of
Poland and Maria took place. The death of Bolesław IV's first wife, Princess
Viacheslava of Novgorod
Viacheslava of Novgorod (russian: Вячеслава новгородская, pl, Wierzchosława Nowogrodzka; c. 1125 – 15 March by 1162?), was a Kievan Rus' princess member of the House of Rurik and by marriage Duchess of Masovia and Kuyavia ...
took place around the 1160s, and it is assumed that Bolesław IV took his second wife soon after, between 1160–1165.
Nothing is known about Maria's life. She is only named in a charter dated 31 December 1167, under which the chapter of
Kraków was granted two villages.
Earlier literature assumed that she was the mother of
Leszek; however, after the discovery of coins upon which Leszek called himself ''son of Anastasia'' (the Latin or Greek equivalent of High Duchess Viacheslava), this theory proved to be inaccurate.
[Borys Paszkiewicz, ''O matce Lestka Bolesławica i początkach mennictwa mazowieckiego'', Przegląd Historyczny, vol. 92 (2001), pp. 1-14.]
There is no known date of death or burial place for Maria. Some sources assumed that she survived her husband (who died in 1173) and probably was buried in the
Płock Cathedral
Płock Cathedral ( pl, Katedra Płocka), or the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Masovia, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the city of Płock, in central Poland. It is an example of 12th-century Romanesque architecture and is the oldest ...
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References
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1140s births
1170s deaths
Polish queens consort
12th-century Polish people
12th-century Polish women