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Princess Anne of Kiev (1024 - 1075), daughter of Yaroslav I, was Queen of France, as the wife of Henry I of France, whom she married at the cathedral of Reims, May 19, 1051. She had three sons
For six years after his death in 1060, she served as regent for their son, Philip, who was 7 at the time of his father's death. She was the first queen of France to serve as regent.
A year after the King's death, Anne, acting as Regent took a passionate fancy for Raoul II (III?) de Péronne, Count of Crépy, of Valois and of the Vexin, a man whose political ambition encouraged him to repudiate his wife to marry Anne in 1062. Accused of adultery, Raoul's wife appealed to Pope Alexander II, who excommunicated Raoul and Anne. The young king Philippe forgave his mother, which was just as well, since he was to find himself in a very similar predicament in the 1090s. Raoul died in September 1071.
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