Agatha 1
- Marriage: Edward the Atheling in Hungary
Another name for Agatha was Ágota.
General Notes:
The paternity of his wife Agatha is debated: the medieval sources agree that she was a sister of Hungarian Queen , and disagree as to other details. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Florence of Worcester 's "Chronicon ex chronicis" describe Agatha as a blood relative of the Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor . Based on these sources, prominent genealogist Szabolcs de Vajay popularized an idea that she was the daughter of the Emperor's elder (uterine) half-brother, Liudolf, Count of Friesland (1962). Agatha's rare Greek name was recently interpreted in favour of a different version, expounded by Geoffrey Gaimar and Roger of Howden , that her father was a " Russian king", i.e. Yaroslav the Wise . 2
Agatha married Edward the Atheling, son of Edmund II Ironside of England and Ealdgyth, in Hungary. (Edward the Atheling was born about 1016 and died in 1057.)
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