Malfrida

Malfrida or Malfrid is the name of a woman who died in 1000 according to the Primary Chronicle (PVL).^[1]

Russian historian Vasily Tatishchev believe that Malfrida was a Bohemian wife of Vladimir I of Kiev.^{[citation needed]} Other historians believe that Malfrida was identical to Malusha.^{[citation needed]}

Malfrida may have bore two sons to Vladimir:^{[citation needed]}

• Svyatoslav of Smolensk (d. 1015)^{[citation needed]}
• Mstislav of Chernigov (d. 1036) - probably his mother was Rogneda of Polotsk.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. Cross & Sherbowitz-Wetzor 1953, p. 124.

Bibliography

Primary sources

• Primary Chronicle (c. 1110s).
  • Cross, Samuel Hazzard; Sherbowitz-Wetzor, Olgerd P. (1953). The Russian Primary Chronicle, Laurentian Text. Translated and edited by Samuel Hazzard Cross and Olgerd P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor (PDF). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Mediaeval Academy of America. p. 325. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  • Ostrowski, Donald; Birnbaum, David J. (7 December 2014). "Rus' primary chronicle critical edition – Interlinear line-level collation". pvl.obdurodon.org (in Church Slavic). Retrieved 5 May 2023.