Queen Richeza and her children found refuge in Germany.

After she returned to Germany following the deposition of her husband in 1031, she became later a nun and today is reverenced as Blessed Richeza of Lotharingia.

Through her mother, Richeza was a niece of Emperor Otto III ( who was instrumental to her betrothal ), Adelheid I, Abbess of Quedlinburg and Sophia I, Abbess of Gandersheim.

The Brauweiler Chronicle indicated that soon after the escape of her husband, Richeza and her children fled to Germany with the Polish royal crown and regalia, which were given to Emperor Conrad II and she subsequently played an important role in mediating a peace settlement between Poland and the Holy Roman Empire.

Richeza still called herself Queen of Poland, a privilege that was given to her by the Emperor.

In Saalfeld Richeza led the Polish opposition which supported her son Casimir, who in 1039, with the help of Conrad II, finally obtain the Polish throne.

Otto's death seems to have touched Richeza ; apparently, they were very close ( Otto named his only daughter after her ).

In 1054 in connection with some donations to the Abbey of Brauweiler, Richeza expressed her desire to be buried there beside her mother.

Richeza responded to Anno II's ambitions with the formal renunciation of her possessions in Brauweiler to the monastery of Moselle, while reserving the lifelong use of the lands.

At the end Richeza only maintain her direct rule over the towns of Saalfeld and Coburg, but retained the right to use until her death seven other locations in the Rhineland with their additional incomes, and 100 silver pounds per year by the Archdiocese of Köln.

According to witnesses, Richeza had a small and graceful stature ; her collarbone showed traces of a fracture, which may have been caused by falling from a horse.

Richeza planned to made Brauweiler as the Ezzonen family crypt, so in 1051 she placed there the remains of her sister Adelaide, Abbess of Nivelles, and in 1054 transferred the remains of her father from Augsburg to be buried next to her sister.

Among these, in addition to Richeza were named Anno II and her parents.

Possibly can be more precisely from the condition of the Codex date: After 1047, when Richeza assumed her clerical vows, she had no need for a personal representative signature.

Richeza of Poland (, ; 12 April 1116 – after 25 December 1156 ), was a Polish princess and member of the House of Piast, and by her three marriages Queen consort of Sweden and Princess of the Principality of Minsk ( now the capital and largest city in Belarus ).

Richeza and her husband returned to Denmark.

Now a widow, Richeza returned to Poland, apparently leaving her two sons behind in Denmark.

Richeza returned again to Poland, this time with her daughter Sofia, but left her two sons behind with her former husband.

By 1167, Richeza married her third and last husband, Count Albert III of Everstein, who fought at the side of Frederick Barbarossa in his wars against the Guelphs.

Besides the coffin, hang two medieval portraits of Richeza and Anno II, who dated from the medieval grave in St. Maria ad Gradus.

The original name of one of the oldest settlements in the Czech Republic was Hradec ( the Castle ); Králové ( of the queen ) was affixed when it became one of the dowry towns of Elisabeth Richeza of Poland ( 1286 – 1335 ), who lived here for thirty years having been the second wife of two Bohemian Kings, Wenceslaus II and then Rudolph I of Habsburg.

During this marriage, Richeza gave birth to three children: two sons, Vladimir ( later Prince of Minsk ) and Vasilko ( Prince of Logoysk or Lahojsk ), and a daughter, Sofia, born ca.

Sweden's first Queen Richeza ( of two ) is thought to be buried at Alvastra Abbey.

In 1156 Knud V married Princess Helena of Sweden, daughter of King Sverker I and his first wife Ulvhild ; in consequence, Richeza became the step-mother-in-law of her own son.

Richeza's daughter Sofia of Minsk, Queen of Denmark by her first marriage with Valdemar I, give Richeza her only known legitimate grandchildren: the later kings Knud VI and Valdemar II of Denmark ; Sophie ( Countess of Orlamünde ); Margareta and Maria, nuns at Roskilde ; Ingeborg ( the later repudiated Queen of France ); Helena ( Duchess of Brunswick-Luneburg ) and Richeza, named after her grandmother and who, like her, became Queen of Sweden.

In order to seal this alliance, a marriage was arranged between Bolesław III's daughter Richeza with Niels ' eldest son, Crown Prince Magnus.

The position of the young prince, at the both Polish and Imperial courts, became stronger in 1013 when he married Richeza ( Ryksa ), daughter of Count Palatine Ezzo of Lotharingia and niece of Emperor Otto III.

1013, Mieszko II married with Richeza ( b. bef.

* 1286 – Elizabeth Richeza of Poland ( d. 1335 )

Both arranged the betrothal of Bolesław's son Mieszko II Lambert with the Emperor's niece Richeza of Lotharingia.

The future marriage of Bolesław I's son Mieszko to Richeza (), niece of Otto III, was also probably agreed upon at this point.

Also, was performed the marriage of his son Mieszko with Richeza of Lotharingia, daughter of the Count Palatine Ezzo of Lotharingia and granddaughter of Emperor Otto II.

* June 16 – Richeza of Poland, Queen of Castile ( b. c. 1140 )

Richeza of Lotharingia ( also called Richenza, Rixa, Ryksa ; b. ca.

Queen Richeza of Poland.

Due to the childlessness of Otto III, the seven daughters of his sister Mathilde ( the only of Otto II's daughters who married and produced children ), were the only potential brides for Mieszko, Bolesław I's son and heir ; the oldest of Otto III's nieces, Richeza, was the chosen one.

The marriage between Mieszko and Richeza took place in Merseburg, probably during the Pentecost festivities.

After the final peace agreement between the Holy Roman Empire and Poland, which was signed in 1018 in Bautzen, Richeza and Mieszko maintained close contacts with the German court.

Six months later, on Christmas Day, Mieszko II Lambert and Richeza were crowned King and Queen of Poland by the Archbishop of Gniezno, Hipolit, in the Gniezno Cathedral.

Richeza and Mieszko II never reunited again ; according to some sources, they were either officially divorced or only separated.

Only in 1037 the young prince returned to Poland in order to recover his rights over the throne ; apparently Richeza also returned with him, although this fact is disputed among historians.

Soon after, a barons ' rebellion — coupled with the so-called " Pagan Reaction " of the commoners — forced both Casimir and Richeza to flee to Germany again.

Image of Richeza in Cologne Cathedral.

The return of Richeza to Germany forced a redistribution of his father's inheritance, because at the previous arrangement it wasn't contemplated that Richeza would need a place to live.