On Friday, June 16, 2017 at 9:54:13 PM UTC-7, Peter Stewart wrote: > In a 2016 article available here: > > http://www.irbis-nbuv.gov.ua/cgi-bin/irbis_nbuv/cgiirbis_64.exe?I21DBN=LINK&P21DBN=UJRN&Z21ID=&S21REF=10&S21CNR=20&S21STN=1&S21FMT=ASP_meta&C21COM=S&2_S21P03=FILA=&2_S21STR=kraeznavstvo_2016_1-2_18 > > Elena Yasynetska proposed that Maria-Dobronega, the wife of Kasimir I > the Restorer, duke of Poland, was a daughter of St Boris (a son of St > Vladimir the Great, prince of Kiev). Incidentally it was suggested that > Agatha may have been a sister of Maria-Dobronega. > > The name Agatha is traced back to the family of the Byzantine emperor > Romanos Lekapenos, along with St Boris' baptismal name Roman, through > the latter's mother who is identified as a daughter of Boris II of > Bulgaria (a great-grandson of Romanos). > > The wife of St Boris, the putative mother of Agatha and Maria-Dobronega, > is supposed to have been descended from emperor Otto I and his English > wife Eadgyth, through their son Liudolf and his conjectured daughter > Richlind, duchess of Swabia. Unfortunate error in the last table. It took me a while to figure out what I was looking at, with Christopher Lekapenos having a brother Christopher Lekapenos, who married Christopher Lekapenos. (The latter couple, of course, are Helena Lekapene and Constantine VII.) It caps the repetition by mistakenly giving the triplicate Christopher the death date of his father (all three times). She does the same thing with Richlind in that last table, repeating her name four times, in a line that is supposed to consist of Otto I, Liudolf, Richlind and (? Adela). It looks like she copied the cells in the table intending to substitute in the other names, then never got around to making the swap (and it doesn't speak well for the editor that something this obvious would not be detected, assuming the PDF represents the final published form). I note she also shows Empress Theophanu, wife of Otto II, as daughter of Romanos II, a placement that is very much out of favor. For those keeping score, this solution would make Agatha the 'daughter of a Russian prince' and 'niece' (younger kinswoman) of both Emperors Henry (II & III), but would not match the sources making her close kinswoman (daughter or sister-in-law) of the Hungarian rulers. Curiously, it would make Agatha grandniece of Mathilda, Abbess of Essen, to whom Æthelweard the Historian addressed his chronicle. taf