Anne of Kiev
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Anne of Kiev or Anna Yaroslavna was a princess of Kievan Rus who became Queen of France in 1051 upon marrying King Henry I. She ruled the kingdom as regent during the minority of their son Philip I fr
Anna Kyjev
Art historian Victor Lazarev presumed that the left-most figure on this fresco at Saint Sophia's Cathedral, Kyiv, represented Anne. According to historian Robert-Henri Bautier, it depicts one of her brothers.
Statue of Anne at the Abbey of Saint-Vincent (2011)
Statue of Anne at the Abbey of Saint-Vincent before renovation with change of inscription in 1996
Philip I of France
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Philip I, called the Amorous, was King of the Franks from 1060 to 1108. His reign of nearly 48 years, like that of most of the early Capetians, was extraordinarily long for the time. The monarchy bega
Anne of Kiev
…princess of Kievan Rus who became Queen of France in 1051 upon marrying King Henry I. She ruled the kingdom as regent during the minority of their son Philip I from Henry's death in 1060 until her controversial marriage to Count Ralph IV of Valois. Anne founded the Abbey of St. Vincent at Senlis. Anne was a…
Philip I's seal
Denier under Philip I
13th-century effigy of King Philip I