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Catherine and her sons sitting at the deathbed of Sviatoslav Olgovich, while Oleg and Sviatoslav Vsevolodich march on Chernigov. Miniature from the Tsar Book (16th century)

Catherine, Kateryna or Ekaterina of Chernigov (Ukrainian: Катерина Чернігівська, romanized: Kateryna Chernihivs'ka; Russian: Екатерина Черниговская, romanized: Ekaterina Chernigovskaya) 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.

References

  1. ^ Raffensperger 2024, pp. 93–95.
  2. Raffensperger & Birnbaum 2021.

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