father's second wife Yefimia (whom Vladimir Monomakh in this case supposedly married c.1099). However, it means there are no mentions in Vladimir Monomakh's works of Gytha's death, despite her being his first wife. Yuri's birth then falls to c. 1099/1100. However, the Primary Chronicle records the first marriage of Yuri - on 12 January 1108. It means that Yuri was born before c.1099/1100 (as he could not have been 6–9 years old at the time of marriage). Then it means that Gytha could have been Yuri's mother and died in 1107. Legacy According to Russian politician and historian Vladimir Medinsky, Gytha was a significant influence on Monomakh's public relations: "Knyaz's English wife wasn't wasted". As a source, Medinsky quotes M. P. Akekseev's comparative analysis between Monomakh writings' and Alfred the Great's, and other anonymous then contemporary Anglo-Saxon texts. Through her son Mstislav the Great she was an ancestor of both Philippa of Hainault and King Edward III of England, hence of all subsequent English and United Kingdom monarchs. Through Mstislav, she was also an ancestor of Alexander Nevsky and subsequent major Rurik rulers in Russian history, including Ivan I Kalita, Dmitry Donskoy, Ivan III the Great and first Tsar of Russia, Ivan IV the Terrible. Family trees Godwin family tree Cnut the Great's family tree References Sources Necrologium Sanctis Pantalaeonis Coloniensis, in Rheinische Urbare: Sammlung von Urbaren und anderen Quellen zur rheinischen Wirtschaftsgeschichte (Bonn, 1902), vol. 1. Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum: The History of the Danes, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2015). T. Zajac, 'Marriage Impediments in Canon Law and Practice: Consanguinity Regulations and the Case of Orthodox-Catholic Intermarriage in Kyivan Rus, ca. 1000 – 1250,' in Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Toronto, 5–11 August 2012, ed. Joseph Goering, Stephan Dusil, and Andreas Thier (Vatican City, 2016), pp. 711–29. T. Zajac, ‘The social-political roles of the princess in Kyivan Rus’, ca. 945–1240,’ in E. Woodacre, ed., A Global Companion to Queenship (Leeds, 2018), pp. 125–146. External links S. Lewis, 'Gytha of Wessex, an Anglo-Saxon Russian Princess', blogpost Further reading Alexander Nazarenko. Древняя Русь на международных путях. Moscow, 2001. . (Russian) 11th-century births Year of birth unknown 1098 deaths 1107 deaths Year of death uncertain Burials at Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv 11th-century English people 11th-century English women English princesses 11th-century Rus' people 11th-century Rus' women House of Godwin Anglo-Norse women Anglo-Saxon women Anglo-Saxon royalty Kievan Rus' princesses Rurik