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: ''Kristina Ingesdotter'') (11th century – 18 January 1122) was a Swedish princess and a princess consort of
Veliky Novgorod
Veliky Novgorod ( rus, links=no, Великий Новгород, t=Great Newtown, p=vʲɪˈlʲikʲɪj ˈnovɡərət), also known as just Novgorod (), is the largest city and administrative centre of Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is one of the ol ...
,
Rostov
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While t ...
and
Belgorod
Belgorod ( rus, Белгород, p=ˈbʲeɫɡərət) is a city and the administrative center of Belgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Seversky Donets River north of the border with Ukraine. Population: Demographics
The population of Be ...
, by marriage to Grand Prince
Mstislav I of Kiev
Mstislav I Vladimirovich Monomakh (Russian: Мстислав Владимирович Великий, uk, Мстислав Володимирович Великий; February, 1076 – April 14, 1132), also known as Mstislav the Great, was t ...
.
Life
Christina was the daughter of King
Inge the Elder
Inge the Elder (Swedish: ''Inge Stenkilsson''; Old Norse: ''Ingi Steinkelsson''; died c. 1105–1110) was a king of Sweden. In English literature he has also been called ''Ingold''. While scant sources do not allow us to paint a full picture of hi ...
of Sweden and Queen Helena. Helena was the sister of Blot-Sven King of Sweden. She was likely the eldest of the three royal daughters, being married before her sisters Margaret and Catherine.
Christina was married to Mstislav, who was Prince of Veliky Novgorod, Rostov, and Belgorod during their marriage, thereby giving her the equivalent titles. According to
Vasily Tatishchev
Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev (russian: Васи́лий Ники́тич Тати́щев) (19 April 1686 – 15 July 1750) was a prominent Russian Imperial statesman, historian, philosopher, and ethnographer, best remembered as the author of the f ...
they married in 1095. Polish historian Dariusz Dąbrowski stated that Tatischev didn't base on reliable source. Christina married Mstislav between 1090 and 1096.
The personal seal of Christina has been found by archaeologists, depicting a woman with a crown and the
aureola
An aureola or aureole (diminutive of Latin ''aurea'', "golden") is the radiance of luminous cloud which, in paintings of sacred personages, surrounds the whole figure.
In Romance languages, the noun Aureola is usually more related to the d ...
of a saint and the inscription "Saint Christina" in Greek. Princess Christina is suggested to have been depicted as Saint Christina in the
Nereditsa Church
The Saviour Church on Nereditsa Hill near Novgorod (russian: церковь Спаса на Нередице, ''Tserkov Spasa na Nereditse'') is a 12th-century Orthodox church dedicated to the feast of the Saviour's Transfiguration.
The church, ...
, which has been interpreted as a sign that she may have been worshiped as a local saint.Murjāņi MF K symbolism Nereditskoy målning // Kultur av medeltida Ryssland. - M., 1974.
Her father, king Inge the Elder, died in 1110, and was succeeded on the Swedish throne by his nephews. Living in Rus, Christina was in Sweden counted as too far away to be given a share in the inheritance of her father, leaving only her younger sisters queen
Margaret Fredkulla
Margaret Fredkulla (Swedish: ''Margareta Fredkulla''; Danish: ''Margrete Fredkulla''; Norwegian: ''Margret Fredskolla''; 1080s – 4 November 1130) was a Swedish princess who became successively queen of Norway and Denmark by marriage to kings Ma ...
of Denmark and
Catherine Ingesdotter of Sweden Catherine of Sweden (Swedish: ''Katarina Ingesdotter''; fl. 1110) was a Swedish princess who married the Danish prince Bjørn Haraldsen Ironside.
Life
Catherine was the daughter of King Inge the Elder of Sweden and Queen Helena. She was the siste ...
as their father's heirs.Kungagravar och medeltidshistoria, Beckman, Natanael, Fornvännen 22-47, 1921 However, it is known that Margaret shared her inheritance with her niece Ingrid in Norway, and her niece Ingeborg in Denmark, giving them a fourth each: Ingeborg was the daughter of Christina and the only one of her children residing in Scandinavia. She lived in Denmark after her marriage to a Danish prince some years later, which could be counted as a share in the inheritance after her mother, Christina.
Christina died on 18 January 1122. Three years after her death, her spouse Mstislav became Grand Prince of Kiev.
Issue
Christina and Mstislav had ten children:
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Ingeborg of Kiev
Ingeborg Mstislavna of Kiev ( fl. 1137) was a Ruthenian princess, married to the Danish prince Canute Lavard of Jutland.
She was the daughter of Grand Prince Mstislav I of Kiev and Christina Ingesdotter of Sweden and was in about 1116 married to C ...
, married
Canute Lavard
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of
Jutland
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, and was mother to
Valdemar I of Denmark
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Sigurd I of Norway
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; (2)
Eric II of Denmark
Eric II the Memorable ( da, Erik II Emune; – 18 September 1137) was king of Denmark between 1134 and 1137. Eric was an illegitimate son of Eric I of Denmark, who ruled Denmark from 1095 to 1103. Eric the Memorable rebelled against his uncle Ni ...
Alexius Comnenus
Alexios I Komnenos ( grc-gre, Ἀλέξιος Κομνηνός, 1057 – 15 August 1118; Latinized Alexius I Comnenus) was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118. Although he was not the first emperor of the Komnenian dynasty, it was during ...
, son of
John II Comnenus
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Maria Mstislavna of Kiev Maria Mstislavna of Kiev (died 1179), was a Grand Princess consort of Kiev by marriage to Prince Vsevolod II of Kiev. She was the daughter of Mstislav I of Kiev and Christina Ingesdotter of Sweden.
Her marriage was arranged in 1116 to facilitate be ...
, married
Vsevolod II of Kiev
Vsevolod II Olgovich (Cyrillic: Всеволод II Ольгович) (died August 1, 1146) was the Prince (Knyaz) of Chernigov (1127–1139) and Grand Prince of Kiev (Velikiy Knyaz), 1139–1146), son of Oleg Svyatoslavich, Prince of Chernigov.
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Iziaslav II of Kiev
Iziaslav II Mstislavich ( uk, Ізяслав Мстиславич, russian: Изяслав II Мстиславич; c. 1096Rostislav of Kiev
# Sviatopolk of Pskov
# Rogneda, married Yaroslav of Volinya
# Xenia, married Briachislav of Izyaslawl