Agatha Yaroslavna

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Agatha's historical providence as a daughter of Yaroslav the Wise is actually not proven, and is a matter of much historical speculation. Historically, there was a woman named Agatha, born sometime before 1030 AD and married to Edward the Exile of England, but due to poor records, her origin is unknown. One of the competing theories is that she was indeed a daughter of Yaroslav, as there is a fresco of four daughters from Yaroslav, with the fourth being unknown, but the other three were all married to foreign princes. More compellingly, her name--which has its origins in Greek--was rare in Western Europe at the time, but would have been more common in the Kievian Rus', and that she was the same woman who married Edward when he was living in exile in Kiev according to other statements recorded in the histories. Furthermore, her children were likewise given Greek and Swedish names that were rare in England at the time (but with Agatha's mother being a Swedish princess, this is a possible clue). However, we do not know for sure, but for the sake of the story, the author found it simpler to go with the Kievian theory for her origin.

Agatha (Wife of Edward the Exile) at Wikipedia