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She was the daughter of
Vsyevolod I Yaroslavich, prince of Kyiv, and his
second wife, Anna, daughter of a Polovtsi khan. She married first in 1086 with
Heinrich, Margrave of Shtaden; and then in 1089 with Henry IV, Holy Roman
Emperor and king of Germany. She denounced Henry for immoral and obscene sexual
practices and fled his court for that of Matilda, Countess of Tuscany and Pope
Gregory VII. Henry was already at war with Gregory over the Investitute
controversy so Adel'geida's publication of her rebuke didn't help him at all.
After Henry died, she returned to Kyiv and entered a monastery run by her
sister. The family is shown on this chart.
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