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Barbara Aleksandrówna

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Barbara Aleksandrówna
Duchess of Warsaw
TenureBetween 1440 and 1443 - 10 September 1454
Regent of Czersk, Liw, Warsaw, Nur, Łomża, Ciechanów, Różan, Zakroczym, and Wyszogród
Reign1458 - 1462
PredecessorAnna Feodorovna of Ratnie
SuccessorKonrad III Rudy
Bornc. 1428
Diedbetween 1488 and 1492
Burial
SpouseBolesław IV of Warsaw
IssueBolesław
Janusz
Konrad III Rudy
Bolesław
Casimir III of Płock
Janusz
Anna
Sophia
Bolesław V of Warsaw
Janusz II of Płock
HouseGediminid
FatherAlexander Włodzimierzowic

Barbara Aleksandrówna[1] (c. 1428 between 1488 and 1492) was a princess and wife of prince Bolesław IV of Warsaw. She was the daughter of Alexander Włodzimierzowic, Grand Prince of Kiev.

Between 1440 and 1443 she married Bolesław IV of Warsaw.[2] Her husband died on September 10, 1454.[3] After death of her mother-in-law in 1458 she became a regent in the name of her minor sons Konrad III, Bolesław V, Kazimierz III, and Janusz II.[4] She usually entitled herself ducissa et gubernatrix Mazouie etc.[4]

She was buried in Nowe Miasto, Płońsk County.

Footnotes

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  1. ^ Grabowski, p. 363.
  2. ^ Grabowski, p. 478.
  3. ^ Grabowski, p. 477.
  4. ^ a b Grabowski, p. 361.

References

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  • Balzer Oswald, Genealogia Piastów, Akademia Umiejętności, Kraków 1895, p. 523.
  • Grabowski Janusz, Dynastia Piastów mazowieckich, Kraków 2012.
  • Jasiński Kazimierz, Rodowód Piastów mazowieckich, Wydawnictwo Historyczne, Poznań – Wrocław 1998, ISSN 1509-8702, ISBN 83-913563-0-2, pp. 159–160.

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