Deen, Fordice, Hallett, Hodges and Van Horn Families - Person Sheet
Deen, Fordice, Hallett, Hodges and Van Horn Families - Person Sheet
NameSigríð Storråda “The Haughty”
Spouses
ChildrenOlof Skötkonung (980-1022)
Notes for Sigríð Storråda “The Haughty”
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigrid_the_Haughty
Sigrid the Haughty, also known as Sigrid Storråda, was a Nordic queen of contested historicity. She is generally held to be apocryphal in modern scholarship, see e.g. Birgitta Fritz.[1]
She has been variously identified as Świętosława, Saum-Aesa, Gunnhilda, daughter of Mieszko I, sister to Bolesław I Chrobry, King of Poland.
She is a character who appears in many sagas and historical chronicles. It is unclear if she was a real person or a compound person .
It is possible that some accounts confuse one Sigríð, second wife to King of Denmark, Sweyn Forkbeard, and the daughter of Toste, with Saum-Aesa of Poland, his first wife, also known as Gunhilda in her marriage.
Sigríð married the first time, wedding Eiríkr the Victorious of Sweden. She had one son by this marriage: King Óláf II Eiríksson of Sweden, also called Olof Skotkonung. It was in 994 she wed Sweyn Forkbeard under her Scandinavian name, Sigrid Storråda, and the marriage bore five daughters, half-sisters of Danish princes Harald and Canute the Great.
One daughter, Astrid Margaritte was the second wide of Richard II of Normandy after his first wife Judith . Astrid later married Ulf Jarl, son of Thorgils Spragalaeg , died at Svold 1005), great-grand son of Harald Bluetooth, King of Denmark. They had two sons: Bjorn and Sweyn II of Denmark.
The most commonly-held understanding is that Harald and Canute brought back Świętosława from Poland after their stepmother Sigrid left upon the death of their father.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigrid_the_Haughty
Sigrid the Haughty, also known as Sigrid Storråda, was a Nordic queen of contested historicity. She is generally held to be apocryphal in modern scholarship, see e.g. Birgitta Fritz.[1]
She has been variously identified as Świętosława, Saum-Aesa, Gunnhilda, daughter of Mieszko I, sister to Bolesław I Chrobry, King of Poland.
She is a character who appears in many sagas and historical chronicles. It is unclear if she was a real person or a compound person .
It is possible that some accounts confuse one Sigríð, second wife to King of Denmark, Sweyn Forkbeard, and the daughter of Toste, with Saum-Aesa of Poland, his first wife, also known as Gunhilda in her marriage.
Sigríð married the first time, wedding Eiríkr the Victorious of Sweden. She had one son by this marriage: King Óláf II Eiríksson of Sweden, also called Olof Skotkonung. It was in 994 she wed Sweyn Forkbeard under her Scandinavian name, Sigrid Storråda, and the marriage bore five daughters, half-sisters of Danish princes Harald and Canute the Great.
One daughter, Astrid Margaritte was the second wide of Richard II of Normandy after his first wife Judith . Astrid later married Ulf Jarl, son of Thorgils Spragalaeg , died at Svold 1005), great-grand son of Harald Bluetooth, King of Denmark. They had two sons: Bjorn and Sweyn II of Denmark.
The most commonly-held understanding is that Harald and Canute brought back Świętosława from Poland after their stepmother Sigrid left upon the death of their father.