Agatha of Poland 1021

Agatha of Poland , 1021–1070 (aged 49 years)

Name Agatha of Poland

Name: Agatha /of Poland/
Given names: Agatha
Surname prefix: of
Surname: Poland

Events of close relatives Relationships

Birth	between 1021 and 1025 35 30
Marriage	Edward Atheling the Exile of Wessex — View this family yes
Residence	Hungary
Death of a paternal grandfather	Boleslaw I Chrobry … King of Poland June 17, 1025 (aged 4 years)
Death of a maternal grandmother	Mathilde von Sachsen December 4, 1025 (aged 4 years) Echtz Source: Genealogics - Leo van de Pas Citation details: http://genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00080072&tree=LEO Text: - ~Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.), Reference: 1.1 10 - Europäische Stammtafeln, Band I, Frank Baron Freytag von Loringhoven, 1975, Isenburg, W. K. Prinz von, Reference: Page 3
Death of a father	Mieszko II Lambert … King of Poland May 10, 1034 (aged 13 years)
Death of a maternal grandfather	Ezzo … Pfalzgraf von Lothringen May 21, 1034 (aged 13 years) Source: Genealogics - Leo van de Pas Citation details: http://genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00080071&tree=LEO Text: - ~Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.), Reference: II 120; VI 1
Birth of a daughter	Saint Margaret of Wessex about 1045 (aged 24 years) Hungary Source: Genealogics - Leo van de Pas Citation details: http://genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00002905&tree=LEO Text: - ~Burke's Guide to the Royal Family, London, 1973 , Reference: 314 - Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America bef.1700, 7th Edition, 1992, Weis, Frederick Lewis, Reference: 2
Death of a husband	Edward Atheling the Exile of Wessex 1057 (aged 36 years) London Source: Genealogics - Leo van de Pas Citation details: http://genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00020119&tree=LEO Text: - The Worcester Manuscript in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, London, 1997, Swanton, Michael editor - Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America bef.1700, 7th Edition, 1992, Weis, Frederick Lewis, Reference: 2 -~Burke's Guide to the Royal Family, London, 1973 , Reference: 191
Death of a mother	Richeza de Lorraine March 21, 1063 (aged 42 years) Saalfeld, Thuringia, Germany
Death of a sister	Richeza of Poland Queen of Hungary after 1063 (aged 42 years)
Marriage of a daughter	Malcolm III Canmore … King of Scots 1058-1093 — Saint Margaret of Wessex — View this family about 1069 (aged 48 years) Dunfermline Source: Genealogics - Leo van de Pas Citation details: http://genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00002905&tree=LEO Text: - ~Burke's Guide to the Royal Family, London, 1973 , Reference: 314 - Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America bef.1700, 7th Edition, 1992, Weis, Frederick Lewis, Reference: 2
Death	about 1070 (aged 49 years)

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Source citation	Genealogics - Leo van de Pas Citation details: http://genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00020120&tree=LEO Text: [S00011] ~Burke's Guide to the Royal Family, London, 1973 . page 191 [S02860] The Scottish Genealogist, Quarterly Journal of the Scottish Genealogy Society. June 2009 page 70 onwards - John Ravilious
Source citation	Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha,_wife_of_Edward_the_Exile

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Note	BIOGRAPHY Agatha was born about 1021/1025. There have been many claims and hypotheses about her parentage, but a recent plausible case has been made by John P. Ravilious in _The Scottish Genealogist,_ Quarterly Journal of the Scottish Genealogy Society, that she was a daughter of Mieszko II Lambert, king of Poland, and Richeza de Lorraine, making her a sister of Richeza of Poland, the wife of Béla I, king of Hungary. Ravilious and Michael Anne Guido subsequently published an article in _Foundations,_ the journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, setting forth further evidence concerning the hypothesised Polish parentage of Agatha, including the derivation of the name Agatha (and of her putative sister Gertruda of Poland) from the names of saints associated with the abbey of Nivelles. Agatha married Edward Atheling of Wessex, son of Edmund II Ironside, king of England, and his wife Ealdgyth. They had three children of whom only their daughter Margaret would have progeny, marrying Máel Coluim mac Donnchada, Malcolm III Canmore, king of Scots. After the successful invasion of England by Knud 'den Store' and his succession to Edward's father Edmund II Ironside, Knud had expelled Edward and his brother Edmund, sending them to Olof III 'Skötkonung', king of Sweden, who sent them on to Kiev, where his daughter Ingegerd was the spouse of Grand Duke Jaroslav I Vladimirovitch and the mother-in-law of the exiled András, then prince of Hungary, from a younger branch of the Arpád dynasty, who had claimed the throne when the older line became extinct with the death of King Stephan I. András and his younger brothers Levente and Béla had been exiled from Hungary, fearing for their lives. Béla and Levente fled to Poland, where Béla married Richeza, daughter of Mieszko II Lambert. Some sources indicate that Edward travelled to Hungary in 1046, when the brothers András and Béla returned there from exile. The argument over whether Edward's wife Agatha was Mieszko II's daughter, rather than (say) a Hungarian noblewoman Edward met in Hungary and married there, may never be fully resolved, but the circumstances and timing of his move appear relevant. If Edward was already married when he moved to Hungary that would seem at least consistent with the argument that Agatha was Mieszko II's daughter, as Edward and Agatha's daughter Margaret was born about 1045. At some stage in the mid 1050s Edward took his family home to England. In 1057 the brothers András and Béla fell out and Béla rebelled when András had his five-year-old son Salomon crowned as his successor, displacing Béla. It has been argued that András' act may have precipitated Edward's decision to leave: if Agatha had been András' sister-in-law, and aunt of Salomon, his act would have strengthened her bonds and those of her husband Edward to Hungary's future; on the other hand, if Agatha was a sister-in-law to Béla (husband of Richeza of Poland) she and Edward would most likely have been inclined to leave Hungary at the time of Béla's rebellion against his brother. On the other hand, some sources indicate that when King Edward the Confessor learnt that Edward, son of his half-brother Edmund 'Ironside', was still alive, he recalled him to England in 1056, and named him his heir. This 'pull' motive would tend to negate the force of the 'push' motive related to events in Hungary. However, more damaging to the 'push' argument if true is that, according to some sources, when Edward was summoned to England he was in the custody of Emperor Heinrich III. Heinrich died in October 1056, which would suggest that Edward would have left Hungary in early 1056 at the latest. Edward died in London in 1057, a few days after his return. Agatha died about 1070.

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BIOGRAPHY
Agatha was born about 1021/1025. There have been many claims and hypotheses about her parentage, but a recent plausible case has been made by John P. Ravilious in _The Scottish Genealogist,_ Quarterly Journal of the Scottish Genealogy Society, that she was a daughter of Mieszko II Lambert, king of Poland, and Richeza de Lorraine, making her a sister of Richeza of Poland, the wife of Béla I, king of Hungary. Ravilious and Michael Anne Guido subsequently published an article in _Foundations,_ the journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, setting forth further evidence concerning the hypothesised Polish parentage of Agatha, including the derivation of the name Agatha (and of her putative sister Gertruda of Poland) from the names of saints associated with the abbey of Nivelles.

Agatha married Edward Atheling of Wessex, son of Edmund II Ironside, king of England, and his wife Ealdgyth. They had three children of whom only their daughter Margaret would have progeny, marrying Máel Coluim mac Donnchada, Malcolm III Canmore, king of Scots.

After the successful invasion of England by Knud 'den Store' and his succession to Edward's father Edmund II Ironside, Knud had expelled Edward and his brother Edmund, sending them to Olof III 'Skötkonung', king of Sweden, who sent them on to Kiev, where his daughter Ingegerd was the spouse of Grand Duke Jaroslav I Vladimirovitch and the mother-in-law of the exiled András, then prince of Hungary, from a younger branch of the Arpád dynasty, who had claimed the throne when the older line became extinct with the death of King Stephan I. András and his younger brothers Levente and Béla had been exiled from Hungary, fearing for their lives. Béla and Levente fled to Poland, where Béla married Richeza, daughter of Mieszko II Lambert. Some sources indicate that Edward travelled to Hungary in 1046, when the brothers András and Béla returned there from exile.

The argument over whether Edward's wife Agatha was Mieszko II's daughter, rather than (say) a Hungarian noblewoman Edward met in Hungary and married there, may never be fully resolved, but the circumstances and timing of his move appear relevant. If Edward was already married when he moved to Hungary that would seem at least consistent with the argument that Agatha was Mieszko II's daughter, as Edward and Agatha's daughter Margaret was born about 1045.

At some stage in the mid 1050s Edward took his family home to England. In 1057 the brothers András and Béla fell out and Béla rebelled when András had his five-year-old son Salomon crowned as his successor, displacing Béla. It has been argued that András' act may have precipitated Edward's decision to leave: if Agatha had been András' sister-in-law, and aunt of Salomon, his act would have strengthened her bonds and those of her husband Edward to Hungary's future; on the other hand, if Agatha was a sister-in-law to Béla (husband of Richeza of Poland) she and Edward would most likely have been inclined to leave Hungary at the time of Béla's rebellion against his brother.

On the other hand, some sources indicate that when King Edward the Confessor learnt that Edward, son of his half-brother Edmund 'Ironside', was still alive, he recalled him to England in 1056, and named him his heir. This 'pull' motive would tend to negate the force of the 'push' motive related to events in Hungary. However, more damaging to the 'push' argument if true is that, according to some sources, when Edward was summoned to England he was in the custody of Emperor Heinrich III. Heinrich died in October 1056, which would suggest that Edward would have left Hungary in early 1056 at the latest.

Edward died in London in 1057, a few days after his return. Agatha died about 1070.

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Great-grandparents

generation +3 relationship coefficient: 12.5% (Biological great-grandparents)

Agatha has 4 great-grandfathers and 3 great-grandmothers recorded (7 in total).

Biological grandparents of father (3)

Parents Mieszko I Dagon Grand Duke of Poland 966-992 + Dobrawa of Bohemia (Marriage) of Boleslaw I Chrobry … King of Poland

1 Mieszko I Dagon Grand Duke of Poland 966-992 935–992

2 Dobrawa of Bohemia –977

Parents Dobromir … + … … (Partnership) of Emnilde …

1 Dobromir … –

Biological grandparents of mother (4)

Parents Hermann Pusillus … Count Palatine of Lower-Lorraine + Heylwig von Dillingen (Marriage) of Ezzo … Pfalzgraf von Lothringen

1 Hermann Pusillus … Count Palatine of Lower-Lorraine –996

2 Heylwig von Dillingen –

Parents Otto II … Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire + Theophano Skleraina (Marriage) of Mathilde von Sachsen

1 Otto II … Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 955–983

2 Theophano Skleraina 955–991

Grandparents

generation +2 relationship coefficient: 25.0% (Biological grandparents)

Agatha has 2 grandfathers and 2 grandmothers recorded (4 in total).

Biological parents of father (2)

Marriage Boleslaw I Chrobry … King of Poland + Emnilde …

1 Boleslaw I Chrobry … King of Poland 967–1025

2 Emnilde … 970–1017

Biological parents of mother (2)

Marriage Ezzo … Pfalzgraf von Lothringen + Mathilde von Sachsen

1 Ezzo … Pfalzgraf von Lothringen –1034

2 Mathilde von Sachsen 978–1025

Uncles and Aunts

generation +1 relationship coefficient: 25.0% (Full siblings of biological parents)

Agatha has 2 uncles recorded.

Siblings of mother (2)

Parents Ezzo … Pfalzgraf von Lothringen + Mathilde von Sachsen

1 Otto … Herzog von Schwaben Pfalzgraf of Lorraine –

2 Liudolf … Vogt von Brauweiler, Graf von Zutphen 1000–1031

Uncles and Aunts by marriage

generation +1 no blood relationship

Agatha has 2 aunts by marriage recorded.

Siblings-in-law of mother (2)

Brother Otto … Herzog von Schwaben Pfalzgraf of Lorraine

1 … von Egisheim –

Brother Liudolf … Vogt von Brauweiler, Graf von Zutphen

1 Mathilde von Zutphen –

Parents

generation +1 relationship coefficient: 50.0% (Biological parents)

Agatha has 1 father and 1 mother recorded (2 in total).

Biological parents (2)

Marriage Mieszko II Lambert … King of Poland + Richeza de Lorraine

1 Mieszko II Lambert … King of Poland 990–1034

2 Richeza de Lorraine 995–1063

Parents-in-law

generation +1 no blood relationship

Agatha has 1 father-in-law and 1 mother-in-law recorded (2 in total).

Marriage with Edward Atheling the Exile of Wessex (2)

Marriage Edmund II Ironside King of England 1016 + Ealdgyth …

1 Edmund II Ironside King of England 1016 993–1016

2 Ealdgyth … –

Co-parents-in-law

same generation no blood relationship

Agatha has 1 co-father-in-law and 1 co-mother-in-law recorded (2 in total).

Parents-in-law of biological children (2)

Marriage Malcolm III Canmore … King of Scots 1058-1093 + Saint Margaret of Wessex

1 Duncan I the Gracious … King of Scots 1034-1040 1001–1040

2 Sibylla Bearsson –

Partners

same generation no blood relationship

Agatha has one male partner recorded.

Partner of Agatha (1)

1 Edward Atheling the Exile of Wessex 1016–1057

Partner chains

same generation no blood relationship

Agatha has no members of a partner chain recorded.

Siblings

same generation relationship coefficient: 50.0% (Full siblings)

Agatha has one sister recorded.

Full siblings (1)

Parents Mieszko II Lambert … King of Poland + Richeza de Lorraine

1 Richeza of Poland Queen of Hungary 1018–1063

Siblings-in-law

same generation no blood relationship

Agatha has one brother-in-law recorded.

Partners of siblings (1)

Sister Richeza of Poland Queen of Hungary

1 Béla I … King of Hungary 1061-1063 1016–1063

Co-siblings-in-law

same generation no blood relationship

Agatha has no co-siblings-in-law recorded.

Cousins

same generation relationship coefficient: 12.5% (Children of full siblings of biological parents)

Agatha has 2 female first cousins recorded.

Children of full siblings of mother (2)

Parents Otto … Herzog von Schwaben Pfalzgraf of Lorraine + … von Egisheim

1 Richenza von Schwaben –1083

Parents Liudolf … Vogt von Brauweiler, Graf von Zutphen + Mathilde von Zutphen

1 Adelheid van Zutphen Heiress of Zutphen, Waldenburg –

Nephews and Nieces

generation -1 relationship coefficient: 25.0% (Children of full siblings)

Agatha has one niece recorded.

Children of siblings (1)

Sister Richeza of Poland Queen of Hungary

1 Zofia of Hungary 1050–1095

Children

generation -1 relationship coefficient: 50.0% (Biological children)

Agatha has one daughter recorded.

Biological children (1)

Parents Edward Atheling the Exile of Wessex + Agatha of Poland

1 Saint Margaret of Wessex 1045–1093

Children-in-law

generation -1 no blood relationship

Agatha has one son-in-law recorded.

Partners of biological children (1)

Daughter Saint Margaret of Wessex

1 Malcolm III Canmore … King of Scots 1058-1093 1031–1093

Grandchildren

generation -2 relationship coefficient: 25.0% (Biological grandchildren)

Agatha has 1 grandson and 1 granddaughter recorded (2 in total).

Biological grandchildren (2)

Parents Malcolm III Canmore … King of Scots 1058-1093 + Saint Margaret of Wessex

1 David I the Saint … King of Scots 1124-1153 1080–1153

2 Mary of Scotland Countess of Boulogne 1082–1116

Grandchildren-in-law

generation -2 no blood relationship

Agatha has 1 grandson-in-law and 1 granddaughter-in-law recorded (2 in total).

Partners of biological grandchildren (2)

Marriage Edward Atheling the Exile of Wessex + Agatha of Poland

1 Maud of Huntingdon 1074–1131

2 Eustace III … Comte de Boulogne et de Lens 1058–1125

Summary for the shown extended family

The extended family of Agatha has 34 members (including Agatha). (additional members of the partner chains are not counted)

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Last change

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Author of last change: ghvandoorn

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Family with parents
father Parents Boleslaw I Chrobry … King of Poland Emnilde …	Mieszko II Lambert … King of Poland 990–1034
mother Parents Ezzo … Pfalzgraf von Lothringen Mathilde von Sachsen	Richeza de Lorraine 995–1063
elder sister Family Béla I … King of Hungary 1061-1063 Zofia of Hungary	Richeza of Poland Queen of Hungary 1018–1063
herself	Agatha of Poland 1021–1070

Family with Edward Atheling the Exile of Wessex
husband Parents Edmund II Ironside King of England 1016 Ealdgyth …	Edward Atheling the Exile of Wessex 1016–1057
herself	Agatha of Poland 1021–1070
daughter Family Malcolm III Canmore … King of Scots 1058-1093 David I the Saint … King of Scots 1124-1153 Mary of Scotland Countess of Boulogne	Saint Margaret of Wessex 1045–1093

Descendants

Agatha of Poland(1021–1070)
- Edward Atheling the Exile of Wessex
  - Saint Margaret of Wessex(1045–1093)