Helena, from the Greeks

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Helena, from the Greeks

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Fiancée of Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor

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- http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/GERMANY,%20Kings.htm#OttoIIIgermany...

e) OTTO (Kessel [end Jun/early Jul] 980-Paterno, near Civita Castellano 23/24 Jan 1002, bur Aachen Cathedral). Thietmar records that Otto son of Emperor Otto III was born in the forest of Kessel[322]. He was elected OTTO III associate King of Germany at Verona in May 983, ... ...

[m (after Feb 998, divorced [998/1000]%29 [THEODORA], widow of CRESCENTIUS [II] Nomentanus Senator of Rome, daughter of --- (-before 1006). ... ... ...

[Betrothed to HELENA, daughter of ---. Thietmar records that "Helena from the Greeks" who later married "the king of the Russians Vladimir" had formerly been betrothed to Otto III "but was then denied to him through fraud and cunning"[332]. This betrothal is unlikely or the report of it at best confused. The marriage of Anna of Byzantium, wife of Grand Prince Vladimir, took place in 988 and there is no indication in other sources of her earlier betrothal to Otto. A "Helena" is not known in the Byzantine imperial family at the time Otto III ruled.]

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