Editing Bolesław I the Brave (section)

==Family==
[[File:Catedral de Gniezno, Polonia, 2012-04-05, DD 31.JPG|thumb|''Monument to Bolesław the Brave'' in [[Gniezno]], created by [[Marcin Rożek]] in 1925. Destroyed in 1939 and reconstructed in 1985 by Jerzy Sobociński.]]	
[[File:10 zlotych 1925 Bolesław Chrobry.jpg|thumb|10-złotych coin with Bolesław Chrobry (1925)]]
The contemporaneous [[Thietmar of Merseburg]] recorded Bolesław's marriages, also mentioning his children.{{sfn|Wiszewski|2010|p=39}} Bolesław's first wife was a daughter of [[Rikdag]], [[Margrave of Meissen]].{{sfn|Barański|2008|pp=51, 60–68}}{{sfn|Wiszewski|2010|p=39}} Historian Manteuffel says that the marriage was arranged in the early 980s by Mieszko I who wanted to strengthen his links with the Saxon lords and to enable his son to succeed Rikdag in Meissen.{{sfn|Manteuffel|1982|p=53}} Bolesław "later sent her away",<ref name="Chronicon_ch4.58_p193"/> according to [[Thietmar of Merseburg#Thietmar's Chronicle|Thietmar's ''Chronicon'']].{{sfn|Wiszewski|2010|p=39}} Historian [[Marek Kazimierz Barański]] writes that Bolesław repudiated his first wife after her father's death in 985 which left the marriage without any political value.{{sfn|Barański|2008|pp=51, 60–68}}

Bolesław "took a Hungarian woman"<ref name="Chronicon_ch4.58_p193"/> as his second wife.{{sfn|Wiszewski|2010|p=39}} Most historians identify her as a daughter of the Hungarian ruler [[Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians|Géza]], but this theory has not been universally accepted.{{sfn|Wiszewski|2010|p=376}} She gave birth to a son, [[Bezprym]], but Bolesław repudiated her.{{sfn|Wiszewski|2010|p=39}}

Bolesław's third wife, [[Emnilda]], was "a daughter of the venerable lord, [[Dobromir (duke)|Dobromir]]".<ref name="Chronicon_ch4.58_p193"/>{{sfn|Wiszewski|2010|p=39}} Her father was a West Slavic or Lechitic prince, either a local ruler from present-day [[Brandenburg]] who was closely related to the imperial [[Liudolfing]] dynasty,{{sfn|Pleszczyński|2001|p=416}} or the last independent prince of the [[Vistulans]], before their incorporation into Poland.{{sfn|Barański|2008|pp=51, 60–68}} Wiszewski dates the marriage of Bolesław and Emnilda to 988.{{sfn|Wiszewski|2010|p=xliii}} Emnilda exerted a beneficial influence on Bolesław, reforming "her husband's unstable character",<ref name="Chronicon_ch4.58_p193"/> according to Thietmar of Merseburg's report.{{sfn|Wiszewski|2010|p=39}} Bolesław's and Emnilda's oldest (unnamed) daughter "was an abbess"<ref name="Chronicon_ch4.58_p193"/> of an unidentified abbey.{{sfn|Wiszewski|2010|p=xliii}} Their second daughter [[Regelinda]], who was born in 989, was given in marriage to [[Herman I, Margrave of Meissen]] in 1002 or 1003.{{sfn|Wiszewski|2010|p=xliii}} [[Mieszko II Lambert]] who was born in 990{{sfn|Wiszewski|2010|p=XLIII}} was Bolesław's favorite son and successor.{{sfn|Manteuffel|1982|pp=77–78}} The name of Bolesław's and Emnilda's third daughter, who was born in 995, is unknown; she married [[Sviatopolk I of Kiev]] between 1005 and 1012.{{sfn|Wiszewski|2010|p=xliii}} Bolesław's youngest son, [[Otto Bolesławowic|Otto]], was born in 1000.{{sfn|Wiszewski|2010|p=xliii}}

Bolesław's fourth marriage, from 1018 until his death, was to [[Oda of Meissen|Oda]] ({{circa}} 995–1025), daughter of Margrave [[Eckard I of Meissen]]. They had a daughter, Matilda ({{circa}} 1018–1036), betrothed (or married) on 18 May 1035 to [[Otto III, Duke of Swabia|Otto of Schweinfurt]].

Predslava, a daughter of [[Vladimir the Great]] and [[Rogneda]], whom, along with her sister Mstislava, he had taken from Kiev in 1018, was his concubine.

'''Marriages and Issue:'''

Oda/Hunilda?, daughter of [[Rikdag]]

Unknown Hungarian woman (sometimes identified as [[Judith of Hungary]]):

# [[Bezprym]] (c. 986–1032) – became Duke of Poland

[[Emnilda]], daughter of Dobromir:

# Unknown abbess of an unidentified abbey
# Regelinda (c. 989 – 21 March aft. 1014), married [[Herman I, Margrave of Meissen]] becoming Margravine of Meissen
# [[Mieszko II Lambert]] (c. 990 – 10/11 May 1034), became king and subsequent to his dethronement, regained power as duke of Poland
# Unknown daughter, married Grand Prince [[Sviatopolk I of Kiev]] and became Grand Princess of Kiev
# [[Otto Bolesławowic]] (c. 1000–1033)

[[Oda of Meissen]]

# Matilda (c. 1018–1036), betrothed to [[Otto III, Duke of Swabia|Otto of Schweinfurt]] but the marriage was rejected.