Volodar of Minsk d. Aft 1167: NH genealogy

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- Aft 1167

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Name	Volodar of Minsk
Gender	Male
Death	Aft 1167 [1, 2]
Person ID	I25097	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
Last Modified	6 Jan 2023

Father	Gleb Wseslawitsch, b. Abt 1053 d. 1118 (Age ~ 65 years)
Mother	Anastasia Jaropolkowna, b. 1074 d. 8 Jan 1159 (Age 85 years)
Family ID	F15042	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Richiza of Poland, b. 12 Apr 1116 d. Aft 25 Dec 1155 (Age > 39 years)

Children

1. Sofie of Polotsk, b. Abt 1141 d. 5 May 1198 (Age ~ 57 years)

Family ID F15041 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 6 Jun 2019

Notes

Also called Waledar, Wolodar Glebowitsch, Glebovich. Prince of Minsk and Gorodec.

Sophie, wife of King Valdemar I of Denmark, is definitely known to have been a daughter of Richiza, herself a daughter of Boleslaw III of Poland. But the identity of Sophie's father has been much fought over. R. Bruce Diebold's 2022 article, cited below, makes a strong case that Sophie's father was in fact Volodar of Minsk, just as reported by many of the very earliest sources.

Richiza of Poland was married to her third husband, King Sverker I of Sweden, by about 1150; it is supposed by Diebold and others that Volodar and Richiza divorced before then, since Volodar was still alive in 1167 (and, according to some sources, as late as 1178).

[S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler.
[S6759] R. Bruce Diebold, "The Identity of the Father of Sophia, Wife of King Valdemar I of Denmark: An Evaluation of Competing Theories." The Genealogist36:196, Fall 2022.