Editing Anne of Kiev (section)

== Regency ==
[[File:Анна Ярославна реверс.jpg|thumb|Anne as portrayed on a 2014 Ukrainian coin]]

Upon Henry's death on 4 August 1060, Philip succeeded to the throne.<ref name=":0" /> Count [[Baldwin V of Flanders]], the husband of Henry's sister [[Adela of France|Adela]], was assigned as Philip's guardian.<ref name=":1" /> Anne may still have played an active role in government at that point; an act from 1060 shows her name following Philip's, and her name appears in four times as many charters as Baldwin's.<ref name=":1" /> She also hired Philip's tutor, who was known at court by a Greek title.<ref name=":1" />

Queen Anne's only existing signature dates from this period; it appears inscribed on a document issued at [[Soissons]] for the abbot of {{ill|Saint Crepin le Grand|de|Saint-Crépin (Soissons)}}, now held in the [[Bibliothèque nationale de France|National Library of France]].<ref>{{Cite web|title= Diplôme de Philippe Ier, concernant les autels de Pernant et Colombes (1063) (avec la souscription de la reine Anne de Kiev).
|url= https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc97529g/cb1}}</ref> The signature was most likely placed by a [[Kievan Rus'|Rus']] assistant of the Queen. Under the king's rubric, there is a cross and eight letters in Cyrillic, probably meaning "Ana Reina", the [[Old French|contemporaneous French]] for "Queen Anne".<ref>{{cite web |title=Anne de Kiev (XIème siècle) |url= https://ua.ambafrance.org/Anne-de-Kiev-XIeme-siecle |website= Ambassade de France en Ukraine |publisher= Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement international |access-date=30 March 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170919005444/https://ua.ambafrance.org/Anne-de-Kiev-XIeme-siecle |archive-date=19 September 2017 |language= fr |date= 26 November 2015 |quote= On trouve sa signature, en caractères cyrilliques, au bas d'une lettre des années 1060, sous la forme « Ana Reina ».}}</ref><ref name=Shevelov>{{cite book |author1=Shevelov, George Y. |editor1-last=M.A. Jazayery |editor2-last=E.C. Polomé |editor3-last=W. Winter |title=Linguistic and Literary Studies, Vol 3, Historical and Comparative Linguistics |date= 1978 |publisher= Mouton Publishers |location=The Hague, Paris, New York |isbn= 90-279-7737-2 |pages= 249–256 |edition= 1978 |url= https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110802146.249/html |access-date= 30 March 2022 |language= en |chapter= On the So-called Signature of Queen Ann of France (1063) |doi= 10.1515/9783110802146.249 |quote= if this is not an authentic signature, it could still only have been made by a person from the Queen's suite who came with her from her native land. But it is probably more prudent to speak not of the Queen's signature but of the inscribing of her name in the charter of 1063 [...] comparing it with Old French roina attested alongside reina}}</ref>

Evidence for Anne's role in government, however, disappears in 1061, around the time she remarried. Her second husband was Count [[Ralph IV of Valois]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Bogomoletz|first=Wladimir V|date=2005|title=Anna of Kiev: An Enigmatic Capetian Queen of the Eleventh Century|journal=French History|volume=19|issue=3|pages=299–323|doi= 10.1093/fh/cri032}}</ref> This marriage was controversial because of the couple's [[Affinity (Catholic canon law)|affinity]] (as Ralph was Henry's cousin), and it constituted [[bigamy]], since Ralph was still technically married to his second wife, [[Haquenez]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Anne de Kiev : épouse de Henri Ier|last= Delorme|first= Philippe |publisher= Pygmalion|year=2015|location=Paris}}
</ref> Ralph was [[excommunicated]] for these transgressions.<ref name=":1" /> King Philip's advisers may have encouraged him to turn away from his mother, perhaps mistrusting Ralph's influence.<ref name=":0" /> Ralph began referring to himself as the king's stepfather in the late 1060s.<ref name=":1" /> He died in 1074, leaving Anne a widow once again.<ref name=":1" />

[[File:DiplomaPhilip I AbbeyStCrepin.png|upright|thumb|A [[charter]] signed on behalf of Anne<ref name=Shevelov /> and her son Philip in 1063]]

In 1062, Anne gave a significant amount of money to restore a dilapidated chapel at Senlis, originally dedicated to Saint [[Vincent of Saragossa]]. She bequeathed lands and income to the new establishment so that the organization could sustain itself. She also wrote a letter explaining her reasons for dedicating the monastery. The letter betrays adherence to [[Greek Orthodox]] theology. For instance, the term "[[Mary, mother of God]]" is used rather than the more common "Our Lady", perhaps referring to the Eastern concept of the [[Theotokos]]. Some scholars believe that Anne did not write this letter herself.<ref name=":1" />