Family
Gytha of Wessex
First wife of Vladimir Monomakh
Show on the timeline- Lifespan
- 1074–1098
Daughter of the Anglo-Saxon king Harold II and mother of Mstislav the Great. Her life connects the princely history of Rus' with the aftermath of the Norman Conquest of England.
- On the timeline
- Conventionally dated marriage period: c. 1074–1098
- Uncertainty
- The years of her birth and death are disputed; the Great Russian Encyclopedia gives her death as 1098 or 1126
- Family ties
- Mother of Mstislav, Yaropolk and Viacheslav