Saint Vladimir the Great: #52ancestors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_I_of_Kiev  

http://www.geni.com/people/Saint-Vladimir-I-Velikiy-the-Great-Prince-of-Novgorod/6000000001172352035   

Vladimir Sviatoslavich the Great (Old East Slavic: Володимѣръ Свѧтославичь, Old Norse as Valdamarr Sveinaldsson, Russian:Влади́мир, Vladimir, Ukrainian: Володимир, Volodymyr, Belarusian:Уладзiмiр, Uladzimir; c. 958 – 15 July 1015, Berestove) was aprince of Novgorod, grand prince of Kiev, and ruler of Kievan Rus'from 980 to 1015.^[2][3]

Vladimir's father was prince Sviatoslav of the Rurik dynasty.^[4] After the death of his father in 972, Vladimir, who was then prince ofNovgorod, was forced to flee to Scandinavia in 976 after his brotherYaropolk had murdered his other brother Oleg and conquered Rus'. In Sweden, with the help from his relative Ladejarl Håkon Sigurdsson, ruler of Norway, he assembled a Varangian army and reconquered Novgorod from Yaropolk.^[5] By 980 Vladimir had consolidated the Kievan realm from modern-day Ukraine to theBaltic Sea and had solidified the frontiers against incursions of Bulgarian, Baltic, and Eastern nomads. Originally a Slavic pagan, Vladimir converted to Christianity in 988^[6][7][8] and Christianized the Kievan Rus'.^[9]  

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