Kievan Ancestry
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sviatoslav_I_of_Kiev and pages thereof.
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!!! NOTE !!! Per Culpeper ancestral reasearch, the following ancestries remain unproven: the Malet, Poyntz, Beaumont, Vermandois, Anjou, Kievan ancestry, Byzantine ancestry, Viking ancestry, de Braiose, La Zouche, ancestry to kings of Leinster, legendary Irish ancestry and ancestry to the kings of Wales and Mercia and all the ancestries thereof.
| Rurik (Riurik) b. ca. 830 d. ca. 879 He was a legendary Varangian chieftain and founder of the Rurik Dynasty. |
According to the FamilyTreeDNA Rurikid Dynasty DNA Project, Rurik appears to have belonged to Y-DNA haplogroup N1c1, based on testing of his modern male line descendants. Contrary to the Norman theory of the origin of the Kievan Rus' state, N1c1 is not widely found in Scandinavian countries, but is overwhelmingly found among Baltic and Finnish ethnicities. The N1c1 haplotype possess the distinctive value DYS390=23, also rarely found in Scandinavia, but with the closest relatives of the Rurikid haplotype being found in coastal Finland, among the Swedish-speaking Finns. Sources: |
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| Igor of Kiev (Igor Riurikovich) b. d. 945 Iskorosten Varangian ruler of Kievan Rus' from 912 to 945 |
m. possibly in 903 but perhaps as early as 901-902 | Saint Olga of Kiev b. ca. 890 d. 11 July 969 Kiev Olga was from Pskov and was a ruler of Kievan Rus' as regent (945 - ca. 963) for her son, Svyatoslav. Olga was the first ruler of Rus' to convert to Christianity, in either 945 or 957. The ceremonies of her formal reception in Constantinople were minutely described by Emperor Constantine VII in his book De Ceremoniis. Following her baptism, Olga took the Christian name Yelena (source). |
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| Sviatoslav I of Kiev (Sviatoslav Igorevich)  Ukrainian coin depicting him b. ca. 942 d. March 972 |
m. | Malusha b. d. |
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