Rus'/Vladimir Monomakh

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Vladimir Monomakh, 1053-1125

Gytha of Wessex

There is a direct line from Gytha of Wessex & Vladimir Monomakh to the British royals

  • Gytha of Wessex
  • → married Vladimir Monomakh, Grand Prince of Kiev
  • Mstislav I of Kiev (Mstislav the Great)
  • → married Christina of Sweden
  • Ingeborg of Kiev
  • → married Canute Lavard of Denmark
  • Valdemar I of Denmark
  • → married Sophia of Minsk
  • Valdemar II of Denmark
  • → married Berengaria of Portugal
  • Eric IV of Denmark
  • → married Jutta of Saxony
  • Sophia of Denmark
  • → married Gerhard III, Count of Holstein
  • Adelaide of Holstein
  • → married John I of Hainault
  • William I, Count of Hainault
  • → married Joanna of Valois
  • Philippa of Hainault
  • → married Edward III of England
  • John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (son of Edward III)
  • → married Katherine Swynford
  • John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset
  • → married Margaret Holland
  • John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset
  • → married Margaret Beauchamp
  • Margaret Beaufort (mother of Henry VII)
  • → married Edmund Tudor
  • Henry VII of England
  • → married Elizabeth of York
  • Henry VIII of England
  • → daughter Margaret Tudor married James IV of Scotland
  • James V of Scotland
  • → married Mary of Guise
  • Mary, Queen of Scots
  • → married Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
  • James VI of Scotland (James I of England)
  • → married Anne of Denmark
  • Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia
  • → married Frederick V, Elector Palatine
  • Sophia of Hanover (mother of George I)
  • → married Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover
  • George I of Great Britain
  • → direct male-line descendant to King Charles III
  • Thus, King Charles III is a direct descendant of Gytha of Wessex, making her one of his distant ancestors.

There is also a direct line from Gytha of Wessex to Ivan the Terrible

  • Gytha of Wessex
  • → married Vladimir Monomakh, Grand Prince of Kiev
  • Mstislav I of Kiev (Mstislav the Great)
  • → married Christina of Sweden
  • Euphrosyne of Kiev
  • → married Geisa II of Hungary
  • Béla III of Hungary
  • → married Agnes of Antioch
  • Andrew II of Hungary
  • → married Gertrude of Merania
  • Elizabeth of Hungary
  • → married Ferdinand of Bavaria
  • Sophia of Bavaria
  • → married Grand Prince Vasily I of Moscow
  • Vasily II of Moscow
  • → married Maria of Borovsk
  • Ivan III of Moscow (Ivan the Great)
  • → married Sophia Palaiologina
  • Vasili III of Moscow
  • → married Elena Glinskaya
  • Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) (1530–1584), the first Tsar of Russia

Analysis

So (apparently the only) "British Prince" who married into Kievan Rus' house was actually a princess .... (Vershinin-Rus.; "Pravda"-Eng.)