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According to chronicles, Euphrosyne wished for her sons to inherit the lands of their father, but they would not inherit because of their two elder half-brothers. Euphrosyne wanted to poison her two stepsons so that her own sons could inherit
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women named Anna. The historian J. Horwat put forward another hypothesis, under which Viola could be a
Hungarian princess, daughter of
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282:Siemowit
273:Casimir
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