| | Abstract by William Humphreys - 01 Jul 2004 | | The author discusses the speculation that Agatha, mother of St. Margaret, one of the most important women in Scottish Medieval history, could have been sister to ‘Anastasia’ (‘Maria’ of Byzantium), the Greek wife of the Kievan Prince Vsevolod (d. 1093). Did western chroniclers mistake a tradition of imperial relationship to mean that Agatha was descended from the Ottonian or Salian dynasties when, instead, it infers her descent from a leading noble family of Byzantium? The author concludes that Agatha might have had Greek ancestry, through her putative father, Iaroslav. |
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