Oleg of Drelinia
| Oleg Sviatoslavich | |
|---|---|
| Prince of the Rurik | |
| Father | Sviatoslav the Brave |
| Mother | Predslava |
Oleg was a
Sviatoslav I of Kiev
.
Date of birth is not known, but is probably before 957. Sviatoslav split up his domains, and gave the Drevlyan lands to Oleg. Oleg and his brother
Vladimir had fled on receiving the news about Oleg's death. Yaropolk became the sole ruler of Rus'
.
In 1044
Yaroslav I the Wise had Oleg's bones exhumed, christened, and reburied in the Church of the Tithes.[3]
Possible descendants
There is a Czech legend (mentioned by
House of Zierotin descends from a certain Oleg of Rus (see ru:Олег Моравский
for details).
References
- ^ W. Dworzaczek, Genealogia, Warszawa 1959, tabl. 21.
- ISBN 5-7859-0085-8. Page 361.
- ^ The Notion of "Uncorrupted Relics" in Early Russian Culture, Gail Lenhoff, Christianity and the Eastern Slavs: Slavic cultures in the Middle Ages, Vol. I, ed. B. Gasparov, Olga Raevsky-Hughes, (University of California Press, 1993), 264.
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