The Most Famous
COMPANIONS from Belarus
This page contains a list of the greatest Belarusian Companions. The pantheon dataset contains 673 Companions, 2 of which were born in Belarus. This makes Belarus the birth place of the 35th most number of Companions behind Romania and China.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Belarusian Companions of all time. This list of famous Belarusian Companions is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Rogneda of Polotsk (966 - 1002)
With an HPI of 60.16, Rogneda of Polotsk is the most famous Belarusian Companion. Her biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
Rogneda Rogvolodovna (Russian: Рогнеда Рогволодовна; Christian name: Anastasia; c. 960 – c. 1000), also known as Ragnhild (Ragnheiðr), is a person mentioned in the Primary Chronicle as having been a princess of Polotsk, the daughter of Rogvolod (Ragnvald), who came from Scandinavia and established himself at Polotsk in the mid-10th century. Vladimir the Great is narrated as having killed her father and taking her as one of his wives. In a closely related, but separate story in the Suzdalian Chronicle, the daughter of Rogvolod of Polotsk is called Gorislava, and Vladimir rapes her in front of her parents before killing her father and taking her as a wife, after which Gorislava attempts to kill Vladimir in revenge.
2. Sophia of Minsk (1140 - 1198)
With an HPI of 59.32, Sophia of Minsk is the 2nd most famous Belarusian Companion. Her biography has been translated into 23 different languages.
Sophia of Minsk or Sophia of Polotsk (died 5 May 1198) was a Danish queen consort by marriage to King Valdemar I of Denmark, and a landgravine of Thuringia by marriage to Louis III, Landgrave of Thuringia.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as companions born between 966 and 1140. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased companions include Rogneda of Polotsk and Sophia of Minsk.
