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5. | of Poland Adelajda was born about 955; died in 997. Notes:
GIVEN_NAMES: Also shown as Adlaga
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6. | Vladimir I "The Great" Sviatoslavich Grand Duke of Kyiv was born about 962 in Kyiv, Ukraine (son of Grand Duke of Kyiv Sviatoslav Igorjewitsch Grand Prince of Kyiv, I and of Lubech Malusha); died on 15 Jul 1015 in Berestovo near Kyiv, Ukraine; was buried in Church of the Ti, Kyiv, Ukraine. Notes:
Upon conversion to Christianity, took the baptismal name of Basil, and put away his heathen wives.
His feast in celebrated on 15 July in the Russian Orthodox and Ruthenian Greek Catholic calendars, and he has received the name of Ravnoapostol (equal to the Apostles) in the title of the feast and the troparion of the liturgy. The Russians have added in their service books words referring his conversion and intercession to the present Russian Empire (rossiiskaya zemlya), but the Ruthenians have never permitted these interpolations.
Vladimir married Princess of Polotzk Rogneda Rogvolodovna about 977 in of Polotsk, Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus. Rogneda (daughter of Count of Polotsk Rognwald (Rogvolod)) was born about 962 in of Polotsk, Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus; died in 1002. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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9. | Princess of the Cumens was born in 932 in Cumania. Notes:
The Cumans (or Kunok) were originally a Turkic tribe, with whom the Magyars fought during and after the disappearance of the Petcheneg (Besenyö) tribes, on Hungary's Transylvanian border after their conquesttt of the Carpathian basin. They were invited into Hungary to resettle the country after the Mongol raids of 1241-1242 following the battle of Muhi, in return for military service and a number of other privileges, they were granted a large tract of land between the Danube (Duna) and Theiss (Tisza) rivers, today's Nagy- and Kiskunság..
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