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- Rikissa (aka Richiza) of Poland (b. 1116 - d. after 25 December 1156), was queen in Sweden and grand princess of Minsk. She was a daughter of king Boleslaw III of Poland and Salom? von Berg-Schelklingen. Married three times to Viking-originated rulers in two countries.
Her first marriage was with Magnus the Strong who was the son of King Niels of Denmark and a grandson of king Inge I of Sweden. Magnus died before his father and therefore did not succeed in Denmark, but as one of the heirs of his Swedish grandfather's extinct dynasty, he claimed Sweden and was recognized King in Gothenland, whereby some sources dub him as King of V?sterg?tland. Their marriage produced a son, Canute V of Denmark.
Secondly, she married Volodar, Grand Duke of Minsk, a ruler of Viking origin as most of Rus princes then were. Their marriage produced, in addition to two sons, a daughter Sofja of Minsk whom her half-brother Knud had married to his rival, the future Valdemar I of Denmark.
Thirdly, she married the widowed king Sverker I of Sweden, earlier a rival of her first husband. Certainly one son was born from this marriage, Burislav Sverkersson; but the chronicles assign Sune Sik as another son from Rikissa and Sverker, possibly her youngest.
This database researched and compiled by Norman Lee Madsen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 21 July 2015.
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