Queen Consort of France. She was the daughter of Yaroslav the Wise, Grand Prince of Kiev and Prince of Novgorod, and his wife, Princess Ingegard of Sweden. Little is definitively known about her childhood or education, although some historians have deduced she was literate and learned French in preparation for her marriage to a King of France. She was married on May 19, 1051 at Reims Cathedral to King Henry I of France (French: Henri) and was crowned immediately following the marriage ceremony. She was the second wife of the King who married her in the desire to produce a male heir to the throne and had gone as far afield as Russia seeking a bride in the desire to contract a marriage that was not consanguineous, frowned upon by the Roman Catholic church at the time. She produced three sons, two surviving to adulthood. It is not entirely clear, but some historians feel the surviving evidence indicates she converted from her native Eastern Orthodox faith to Roman Catholicism based, in part, upon a letter written by the Pope and addressed to her regarding her husband's opposition to Gregorian reforms within the church. She is credited with the restoration of the Abbey of Saint Vincent in Senlis. Her husband died on August 4, 1060 and she served as co-regent during the minority of her eldest son, Philip I (French: Philippe), along with Baldwin V, Count of Flanders. She entered a second marriage to Ralph IV, Count of Valois (French: Raoul, comte de Valois), probably in 1061. Her second marriage was controversial as her second husband was a near relative of her first husband, within the forbidden degree of affinity dictated by Roman Catholic church doctrine, and her second husband was bigamously married to another spouse. Her second husband was excommunicated for these transgressions, although Anne escaped that fate. Raoul died in 1074. Anne died not long afterward, in 1075.