Polotsk

Rogned

Father: Rogvolod

Married: Vladimir I in 978

The Russian Primary Chronicle - Laurentian Text p94 (trans. Samuel Hazzard Cross, 1953)
[Vladimir's] lawful wife was Rogned whom he settled on the Lÿbed’, where the village of Predslavino now stands. By her he had four sons: Izyaslav, Mstislav, Yaroslav, and Vsevolod, and two daughters.

Children: Notes:
The Russian Primary Chronicle - Laurentian Text p91 (trans. Samuel Hazzard Cross, 1953)
  6486-6488 (978-980). Vladimir returned to Novgorod with Varangian allies, and instructed the lieutenants of Yaropolk to return to the latter and inform him that Vladimir was advancing against him prepared to fight. He remained in Novgorod, and sent word to Rogvolod in Polotsk that he desired his daughter to wife. Rogvolod inquired of his daughter whether she wished to marry Vladimir. “I will not,” she replied, “draw off the boots of a slave’s son, but I want Yaropolk instead.” Now Rogvolod had come from overseas, and exercised the authority in Polotsk just as Turÿ, from whom the Turovians get their name, had done in Turov. The servants of Vladimir returned and reported to him all the words of Rogned, the daughter of Rogvolod, Prince of Polotsk. Vladimir then collected a large army, consisting of Varangians, Slavs, Chuds, and Krivichians, and marched against Rogvolod. At this time the intention was that Rogned should marry Yaropolk, But Vladimir attacked Polotsk, killed Rogvolod and his two sons, and after marrying the prince’s daughter, he proceeded against Yaropolk.75
  75. Both names are Scandinavian, i.e. Ragnheiðr and Rognvalðr; it should be noted that the latter is specifically characterized as an immigrant from overseas. Rogned’s death in 1000 is mentioned by the chronicle. She was unceremoniously put away by Vladimir at the time of his marriage to the Byzantine princess Anna (989). There are two subsequent traditions in the Russian annals concerning Rogned, one that Vladimir, upon his marriage to Anna suggested Rogned should marry some Russian boyar, whereupon she indignantly refused, became converted, and took the veil under the name of Anastasia (PSRL., II, 258). The other (Laurentian PSRL, I, ii, 2nd ed., 299-300) recounts that Vladimir nicknamed Rogned Gorislava, and that she resented Vladimir’s relations with other women to the point where she attempted to stab him as he slept. Vladimir then intended to kill her, but was dissuaded by his boyars out of consideration for Rogned’s young son Izyaslav. This legend is recounted as an explanation of the subsequent hostility which prevailed between the princely houses of Polotsk and Kiev. But cf. M. v. Taube in Jahrbücher f. Gesch. u. Kult. d. Slaven, IX (1935).
p94
Now Vladimir was overcome by lust for women. His lawful wife was Rogned, whom he settled on the Lÿbedÿ, where the village of Predslavino now stands.82 By her he had four sons: Izyaslav, Mstislav, Yaroslav, and Vsevolod, and two daughters.
  82 The brook Lÿbed’ rises in the western section of modern Kiev and follows substantially the track of the modern railway from the central station to the point where the brook joins the Dnieper just south of the monastery at Vÿdubichi. It was formerly a more considerable stream, since there are records of mills run by it in the seventeenth century (cf. Zakrevsky, Opisanie, p. 438). Predslavino cannot be located beyond its proximity to this creek.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th edition vol 28 p168 (ed. Hugh Chisholm, 1911)
  VLADIMIR, ST (c. 956-1015), grand duke of Kiev … On his way to Kiev he sent ambassadors to Ragvald, prince of Polotsk, to sue for the hand of his daughter Ragnilda. The haughty princess refused to affiance herself to “the son of a bondswoman,” but Vladimir attacked Polotsk, slew Ragvald, and took Ragnilda by force.

Death: 978

The Russian Primary Chronicle - Laurentian Text p124 (trans. Samuel Hazzard Cross, 1953)
  6506-6508 (998-1000). … In this year died also Rogned, Yaroslav’s mother.

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Rogvolod

Birth: The Russian Primary Chronicle notes that Rogvolod had "come from overseas", presumably from Scandinavia

Children: Occupation: Prince of Polotsk

Notes:
The Russian Primary Chronicle - Laurentian Text p91 (trans. Samuel Hazzard Cross, 1953)
  6486-6488 (978-980). Vladimir returned to Novgorod with Varangian allies, and instructed the lieutenants of Yaropolk to return to the latter and inform him that Vladimir was advancing against him prepared to fight. He remained in Novgorod, and sent word to Rogvolod in Polotsk that he desired his daughter to wife. Rogvolod inquired of his daughter whether she wished to marry Vladimir. “I will not,” she replied, “draw off the boots of a slave’s son, but I want Yaropolk instead.” Now Rogvolod had come from overseas, and exercised the authority in Polotsk just as Turÿ, from whom the Turovians get their name, had done in Turov. The servants of Vladimir returned and reported to him all the words of Rogned, the daughter of Rogvolod, Prince of Polotsk. Vladimir then collected a large army, consisting of Varangians, Slavs, Chuds, and Krivichians, and marched against Rogvolod. At this time the intention was that Rogned should marry Yaropolk, But Vladimir attacked Polotsk, killed Rogvolod and his two sons, and after marrying the prince’s daughter, he proceeded against Yaropolk.75
  75. Both names are Scandinavian, i.e. Ragnheiðr and Rognvalðr; it should be noted that the latter is specifically characterized as an immigrant from overseas.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th edition vol 28 p168 (ed. Hugh Chisholm, 1911)
  VLADIMIR, ST (c. 956-1015), grand duke of Kiev … On his way to Kiev he sent ambassadors to Ragvald, prince of Polotsk, to sue for the hand of his daughter Ragnilda. The haughty princess refused to affiance herself to “the son of a bondswoman,” but Vladimir attacked Polotsk, slew Ragvald, and took Ragnilda by force.

Death: 978, in Polotsk, killed by Vladimir

The Russian Primary Chronicle - Laurentian Text p91 (trans. Samuel Hazzard Cross, 1953)
Vladimir attacked Polotsk, killed Rogvolod and his two sons, and after marrying the prince’s daughter, he proceeded against Yaropolk.

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