the ledger of connections
The Connections of Yaroslav the Wise
Grand Prince of Kiev from 1019 to 1054 Every person recorded alongside Yaroslav the Wise in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Yaroslav the Wise in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Vladimir the Great, Rogneda
- Spouses
- Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden, Anne de Novgorod
- Children
- Elisiv of Kiev, Anastasia of Kyiv, Anne of Kyiv, Iziaslav I of Kiev, Sviatoslav II of Kiev, Vsevolod I of Kiev, Igor Yaroslavich, Vladimir of Novgorod, Ilja Jaroslavič, Vyacheslav Yaroslavich, Agatha, wife of Edward the Exile
- Siblings
- Predslava Vladimirovna, Maria Dobroniega of Kiev, Pryamyslava Volodymyrivna, Vysheslav Vladimirovich, Mstislav of Chernigov, Izyaslav of Polotsk, Vsevolod Vladimirovich, Boris of Rostov, Gleb of Murom, Stanislav Vladimirovich of Kyiv, Prince of Smolensk
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 978 CE to 1054.

Medieval era
William the Conqueror
November 8, 1028 – September 9, 1087
King of England from 1066 to 1087, Duke of Normandy from 1035 to 1087 (1028–1087)

Medieval era
Ibn al-Haytham
965 CE – 1038
Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)

Medieval era
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
980 CE – June 18, 1037
Persian polymath whose Canon of Medicine taught Europe for 600 years

Medieval era
Al-Biruni
September 4, 973 CE – December 9, 1048
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)

Medieval era
Murasaki Shikibu
978 CE – 1014
Japanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)

Medieval era
Ferdowsi
940 CE – 1020
Persian poet, author of Shahnameh (940–1020)

Medieval era
Omar Khayyam
May 18, 1048 – December 4, 1131
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)

Medieval era
Leif Erikson
972 CE – 1020
Norse explorer (c. 970 – c. 1020)
Medieval era
Ali Hujwiri
1009 – September 25, 1072
Sufi mystic
Medieval era
Rabia Balkhi
b. c. 1000
Persian poet, first woman poet of Islamic period

Medieval era
Su Shi
January 8, 1037 – August 24, 1101
Chinese writer and politician (1037–1101)

Medieval era
Sei Shonagon
966 CE – 1025
Japanese author and court lady