Rikissa of Poland

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Rikissa of Poland or Richia Sventoslava, (12 April 1116-aft. 1150), was queen in Sweden and grand princess of Minsk.

She was a daughter of king Boleslaw III of Poland and Salome of Berg.

Married three times, to Viking-originated rulers in two countries.

Her first marriage was with Magnus the Strong who was the son of King Niels of Denmark and a grandson of king Inge I of Sweden. Magnus died before his father and therefore did not succeed in Denmark, but as one of the heirs of his Swedish grandfather's extinct dynasty, he claimed Sweden and was recognized King in Gothenland whereby some sources dub him as king of Westrogothia. Their marriage produced a son Canute V of Denmark.

Secondly, she married grand duke Volodar of Minsk, a ruler of Viking origin as most of Rus princes then were. Their marriage produced, in addition to two sons, a daughter Sofia of Minsk whom her half-brother Knud had married to his rival, the future Valdemar I of Denmark.

Thirdly, she married the widowed king Sverker I of Sweden, earlier a rival of her first husband. Chonicles assign Sune Sik Sverkersson and Burislev Sverkersson as children of their marriage.