What is your opinion of this genealogy??

Moderator: MOD_nyhetsgrupper

Svar
samsloan

What is your opinion of this genealogy??

Legg inn av samsloan » 13 mai 2007 10:14:35

Copied verbatim from: http://www.valhalla.org.uk/vikings.html


Between 800 and 850 AD, Ireland was particularly badly mauled by
Viking
invaders, who found the Celtic descendants on the island easy prey
because
of their weakness created by their constant infighting with one
another. On
the European continent itself, the now famous Viking boats sailed up
all the
navigable rivers of Europe, raiding and looting at will, only very
infrequently being turned back or defeated.
*********
The Viking raids started off as hit and run attacks, but gradually
became
more organized with raiders erecting temporary camps for raids lasting
several weeks at a time. Soon the raiders began to be away for months
at a
time, depending on the location of the quarry, or depending upon
discoveries
which they might make upon their journeys.
******************
ENGLAND - VIKING KINGDOM AROUND YORK
According to Anglo-Saxon records, the Vikings first raided England in
787 AD
and continued intermittent raids until around 830 AD, when finally
they
started settling in northern England instead of just raiding and
departing.
The Vikings also settled in Ireland, founding the towns of Dublin and
Limerick amongst others. In England, the Vikings soon established
themselves
in an area big enough to proclaim a kingdom - a large part of England
south
of Scotland and north of present day Birmingham became a Viking
Kingdom
centered in York. (As a result thereof, one of the largest Viking
museums in
the world is to be found in Leeds in northern England).

The Saxon king of England, Alfred the Great, who ruled from 871 to 899
AD,
managed to militarily halt the Viking advance and entered into an
agreement
with the Vikings to halt the fighting which had marked the latter's
presence
in the island from the time of their first settlement. In effect
Alfred
accepted the permanence of the Viking kingdom in the North of England.
This
Viking English kingdom was to later be the source of a Scandinavian
claim to
the English throne.

The line of William I King of England known also as William II Duke
of
Normandy
http://www.family-history.com/KingWilliamdescent.htm

Rvgnvald the Viking was Earl of Mvre in the latter part of the Ninth
Century.
His son, Rolf, was the leader of a band of Viking raiders who, for
many
years, pillaged Scotland, Ireland, and Gaul. In 911, Rolf was defeated
in
battle at Chartres. Nevertheless, Emperor Charles III (the Simple)
recognized him as a legitimate ruler and granted him and his
Scandinavian
followers lands in the valley of the lower Seine. Rolf was then
baptized by
the Archbishop of Rouen. Between 911 and 924, the boundaries of his
holdings
were substantially expanded to include most of the region that came to
be
called Normandy, because it was held by the Norsemen. He died before
933.

His son, William, nicknamed "Longsword", expanded his territory but
was
murdered in 942.
His son, Duke Richard I, fought a long and bloody war with rival
Viking
bands to retain his inheritance. Richard I died 996.

His son, Duke Richard II, married Judith of Brittany, sister to
Geoffrey of
Rennes, who was subsequently Count of Brittany. Geoffrey married
Richard's
sister, Hawisa. Duke Richard II's sister, Emma, was the second wife of
King
Aethelred II of England, nicknamed "The Unready." After Aethelred died
in
1016, he was succeeded by King Cnut, and Emma became Cnut's second
wife.
Emma was the mother of two English kings: Harthacnut, son of Cnut, who
ruled
from 10401042 and Edward the Confessor, son of Aethelred, who ruled
10421066. Richard died on 23 August 1026, after a reign of nearly 20
years,
leaving six legitimate children, three sons and three daughters. The
sons
were named "Richard", "Robert", and "William", and the daughters were
"Adeliza", "Eleanor", and an unknown daughter who died young. He also
had
several illegitimate children.
(Duke Richard II and Judith of Brittany are the Grandparents of
William I
King of England. Looking at the words in bold you can see the
relationship
between William I and Edward the Confessor.)

Their son, Robert became Count of the Hiemois and established himself
at
Falaise in 1026. He met Herleve, a young girl of the town and brought
her to
his castle and slept with her. Her father's name was probably
"Fulbert", a
tanner. Robert became Duke of Normandy after the sudden and suspicious
death
of his older brother Richard in early August 1027.

His illegitimate son, William, by Herleve of Falais, was probably born
in
the autumn of 1028. At the age of seven, William succeeded his father
as
Duke William II of Normandy, when Robert died in early July 1035 at
Bythinian Nicaea in Asia Minor while returning from a pilgrimage to
Jerusalem. Thirty years later, when Edward the Confessor died, William
claimed that Edward had promised him the succession to the throne of
England. When his claim was rejected, he obtained papal approval for
an
invasion of England and defeated King Harold at the Battle of Hastings
on
Saturday 14 October 1066. William the Conqueror was crowned King
William I
of England at Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1066. In 1053,
William
married his cousin, Matilda, daughter of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders.
Their
children were Robert "Curthose," William "Rufus", who became King
William II
(1087-1100), Henry "Beauclerc", who became King Henry I (1100-1135),
and
Adela.




Nelda's websites -
http://freepages.folklore.rootsweb.com/ ... andgilpin/

Svar

Gå tilbake til «soc.genealogy.medieval»