Casimir II The Just - Marriage and Issue

Marriage and Issue

Around 1163, Casimir married with Helen (ca. 1140/42 – ca. 1202/06), daughter of Duke Conrad II of Znojmo, scion of a Moravian cadet branch of the Přemyslid dynasty. They had seven children:

  1. Maria (1164–1194), married in November 1178 to Prince Vsevolod IV of Kiev.
  2. Casimir (ca. 1165? – 1 March 1167).
  3. Bolesław (ca. 1168/71 – 16 April 1182). He died accidentally, after falling from a tree.
  4. Odon, died in infancy.
  5. Adelaide (ca. 1177/84 – 8 December 1211), foundress of the convent of St. Jakob in Sandomierz.
  6. Leszek I the White (ca. 1186/87 – Marcinkow, 23 November 1227).
  7. Konrad (ca. 1187/88 – 31 August 1247).

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