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| * Dimnik, Martin. ''The Dynasty of Chernigov, 1146-1246'', 2000 | * Dimnik, Martin. ''The Dynasty of Chernigov, 1146-1246'', 2000 | ||
| * {{cite journal |last=Dimnik |first=Martin |title=The Princesses of Chernigov (1054–1246) |journal=Mediaeval Studies |volume=65 |date=2003 |issn=0076-5872 |doi=10.1484/J.MS.2.306502 |pages=163–212}} | |||
| * {{Cite web |title=N. N. Iaropolkovna. b. 1074 – d. 1158 |last1=Raffensperger |first1=Christian |last2=Birnbaum |first2=David J. |work=Rusian genealogy at genealogy.obdurodon.org |date=2021 |access-date=21 July 2024 |url= http://genealogy.obdurodon.org/findPerson.php?person=unknown-daughter-iaropolk2}} | * {{Cite web |title=N. N. Iaropolkovna. b. 1074 – d. 1158 |last1=Raffensperger |first1=Christian |last2=Birnbaum |first2=David J. |work=Rusian genealogy at genealogy.obdurodon.org |date=2021 |access-date=21 July 2024 |url= http://genealogy.obdurodon.org/findPerson.php?person=unknown-daughter-iaropolk2}} | ||
| * {{cite book |last=Raffensperger |first=Christian |title=Name Unknown: The Life of a Rusian Queen |publisher=Routledge |date=2024 |pages=232 |isbn=978-1-04-003014-1 |doi=10.4324/9781003325185}} | * {{cite book |last=Raffensperger |first=Christian |title=Name Unknown: The Life of a Rusian Queen |publisher=Routledge |date=2024 |pages=232 |isbn=978-1-04-003014-1 |doi=10.4324/9781003325185}} | ||
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Catherine, Kateryna or Ekaterina of Chernigov (died 12 April 1166) was princess consort of Chernigov (modern Chernihiv) as the wife of Sviatoslav Olgovich (r. 1154–1164), and princess regnant of Chernigov for a few days after his death (r. 1164–1164).
Biography
In early chronicles, she is not named. Not until in later sources, she is named Ekaterina or Catherine, and identified as the daughter of Petryl, the posadnik of Novgorod. In 1136, she married Svyatoslav Olgovich (who had previously been married to an unnamed Cuman princess). Their son Igor Sviatoslavich would later gain fame as the main character of the The Tale of Igor's Campaign.
Upon Sviatoslav's death in 1164, the widowed Catherine briefly ruled as princess regnant of Chernigov. Her reign lasted for a few days, during which she kept her husband's death a secret while she summoned her (step-?)son Oleg to come to Chernigov quickly, and told the city's leading men not inform her brother-in-law Sviatoslav Vsevolodich, who was the rightful heir to the Chernigovian throne. Nevertheless, the bishop of Chernigov betrayed the trust of princess (kniaginia) Catherine immediately, and sent Sviatoslav Vsevolodich a letter, writing that "the kniaginia rules in cahoots with the children and she has many goods." Sviatoslav Vsevolodich soon arrived and made a deal with Oleg, by which the former became prince of Chernigov and the latter prince of Novgorod-Seversk. Princess Catherine is not heard of again until two years later, when she reportedly died on 12 April 1166.
Notes
- Ukrainian: Катерина Чернігівська, romanized: Kateryna Chernihivs'ka; Russian: Екатерина Черниговская, romanized: Ekaterina Chernigovskaya.
References
- ^ Raffensperger 2024, p. 95.
- ^ Raffensperger 2024, pp. 93–95.
- Raffensperger & Birnbaum 2021.
Bibliography
Primary sources
- Kievan Chronicle (c. 1200)
- (Church Slavonic critical edition) Shakhmatov, Aleksey Aleksandrovich, ed. (1908). Ipat'evskaya letopis' Ипатьевская лѣтопись [The Hypatian Codex]. Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles (PSRL) (in Church Slavic). Vol. 2 (3rd ed.). Saint Petersburg: Typography of M. A. Aleksandrov / Izbornyk. pp. 285–301. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- (modern English translation) Heinrich, Lisa Lynn (1977). The Kievan Chronicle: A Translation and Commentary (PhD diss.). Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University. p. 616. ProQuest 7812419
Literature
- Dimnik, Martin. The Dynasty of Chernigov, 1146-1246, 2000
- Dimnik, Martin (2003). "The Princesses of Chernigov (1054–1246)". Mediaeval Studies. 65: 163–212. doi:10.1484/J.MS.2.306502. ISSN 0076-5872.
- Raffensperger, Christian; Birnbaum, David J. (2021). "N. N. Iaropolkovna. b. 1074 – d. 1158". Rusian genealogy at genealogy.obdurodon.org. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
- Raffensperger, Christian (2024). Name Unknown: The Life of a Rusian Queen. Routledge. p. 232. doi:10.4324/9781003325185. ISBN 978-1-04-003014-1.