Editing Yaroslav the Wise (section)

==Family life and posterity==
In 1019, Yaroslav married [[Ingegerd Olofsdotter]], daughter of [[Olof Skötkonung]], the king of [[Sweden]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Winroth |first=Anders |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/919479468 |title=The age of the Vikings |date=2016 |isbn=978-0-691-16929-3 |location=Princeton |pages=50 |oclc=919479468}}</ref><ref name="Cross181">''Yaroslav the Wise in Norse Tradition'', Samuel Hazzard Cross, '''Speculum''', 181-182.</ref> He gave [[Staraya Ladoga|Ladoga]] to her as a marriage gift.

Saint Sophia's Cathedral in Kiev houses a [[fresco]] representing the whole family: Yaroslav, Irene (as Ingegerd was known in Rus'), their four daughters and six sons.<ref>Andrzej Poppe: Państwo i kościół na Rusi w XI wieku. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1968, p. 65.</ref> Yaroslav had at least three of his daughters married to foreign princes who lived in exile at his court:
* [[Elisiv of Kiev]] to [[Harald Hardrada]]<ref name="Cross181"/> (who attained her hand by his military exploits in the [[Byzantine Empire]]);
* [[Anastasia of Kiev]] to the future [[Andrew I of Hungary]];<ref name="Cross181"/>
* [[Anne of Kiev]] married [[Henry I of France]]<ref name="Cross181"/> and was the regent of [[Kingdom of France|France]] during their son's minority (she was Yaroslav the Wise's most beloved daughter);
* (possibly) [[Agatha, wife of Edward the Exile]], of the royal family of [[Kingdom of England|England]], the mother of [[Edgar the Ætheling]] and [[Saint Margaret of Scotland]].<ref name=":0"/>

[[File:Отъезд княжны Анны Ярославны.jpg|thumb|[[Anne of Kiev]]]]

Yaroslav had one son from the first marriage (his Christian name being Ilya (?–1020)), and six sons from the second marriage. Apprehending the danger that could ensue from divisions between brothers, he exhorted them to live in peace with each other. The eldest of these, [[Vladimir of Novgorod]], best remembered for building the [[Cathedral of St. Sophia, Novgorod]], predeceased his father. Vladimir succeeded Yaroslav as [[prince of Novgorod]] in 1034.<ref name="martin">{{cite book |last1=Martin |first1=Janet |title=Medieval Russia, 980-1584. |date=2007 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=9780521859165 |pages=50 |edition=2nd}}</ref>

Three other sons—[[Iziaslav I of Kiev|Iziaslav I]], [[Sviatoslav II of Kiev|Sviatoslav II]], and [[Vsevolod I of Kiev|Vsevolod I]]—reigned in Kiev one after another. The youngest children of Yaroslav were [[Igor Yaroslavich]] (1036–1060) of [[List of rulers of Galicia and Volhynia|Volhynia]] and [[Vyacheslav Yaroslavich]] (1036–1057) of the [[Principality of Smolensk]]. There is almost no information about Vyacheslav. Some documents point out the fact of him having a son, [[Boris Vyacheslavich]], who challenged Vsevolod I sometime in 1077–1078.