The Anna of Kiev grape variety is dedicated to the Grand Duchess of Kievan Rus, Queen of France, Anna Yaroslavna.
Anna Yaroslavna (French: Anne de Kyiv; c. 1032 - after 1075, no later than 1089) - Ruthenian princess, Queen of France (1051–1060). Daughter of the Grand Prince of Kiev Yaroslav the Wise and his second wife, the Swedish princess Ingigerda, daughter of King Olof III. Granddaughter of Prince of Kiev Volodymyr Svyatoslavich.
Second wife of King Henry I of France (1051-1060). Mother of King Philip I of France and Count Hugh of Vermandois, who was one of the leaders of the First Crusade. Mentioned mainly in foreign sources, as well as in documents of the Kiev Pechersk Monastery of the 17th century.
She brought a large dowry to the Kingdom of France, which introduced the French to the culture of Kievan Rus' (according to legend, the Reims Gospel, on which the kings of France swore their oaths, is associated with the princess).
After the death of her husband, the king, she married for the second time to the opposition leader Raoul IV, Count of Valois (1062), who already had a legal wife.
Philip I was solemnly crowned in 1066, when he was fourteen years old. He later married Bertha of Freising. The French kingdom then had a new first lady, and Anne gradually withdrew from state affairs in the early 1070s.
She was forced to leave court due to a political crisis caused by her marriage. She left her young son Philip in the care of Baldwin V of Flanders, a brother-in-law of the late king, as regent. After the death of the Count of Valois, she returned to court.(1074).
She influenced the internal and external policy of the kingdom, signed state acts together with her son (one of them has a Cyrillic signature: "Anna Rėina", that is, "Anna the Queen"). She corresponded with the Holy See (a famous letter from Pope Nicholas II (1059), in which he emphasizes her piety and generosity towards the Catholic Church).
She founded the monastery of Saint Vincent in Senlis (1065), north of Paris, which was her residence. She is last mentioned in a document under 1075. Her further fate is unknown. In addition to her native Swedish, she knew Old Russian, Latin, Greek and French..
Names
Anna Yaroslavna - in Ukrainian historiography.
Anne of Kiev (French: Anne de Kyiv), Anna Ruska or Anna Rusynka (French: Anne de Rus) - in French historiography.
Agnes, or Agnesa (Latin: Agnes) - in French sources.
Family
Rurik, Capetian and Valois (dynasties)
First husband (from 1051): Henry I (1008-1060), King of France from the Capetian dynasty.
Children: Philip I (1052-1108) - King of France
Edighna (Emma) (1055- c. 1109) - Blessed of the Catholic Church.
Robert (1055-1060) - died in childhood.
Hugh (1057-1102) - Count of Vermandois, one of the leaders of the First Crusade.
Second husband (from 1062): Raoul IV (c. 1025-1074) - Count of Valois. Children: none
