Descendants of Halfdan II 'Milldi' "the Eysteinsson

 

 

Generation No. 1

 

1.  HALFDAN II 'MILLDI' "THE1 EYSTEINSSON1,2 was born 762 in Western Scandinavia3,4, and died 8005,6.

       

Children of HALFDAN II 'MILLDI' "THE EYSTEINSSON are:

2.                i.    GUTHFRITH "THE PROUD"2 OF DENMARK, b. Aft. 779; d. 810.

3.               ii.    JARL IVAR OF THE UPLANDS, b. 783.

 

 

Generation No. 2

 

2.  GUTHFRITH "THE PROUD"2 OF DENMARK (HALFDAN II 'MILLDI' "THE1 EYSTEINSSON)7,8 was born Aft. 779, and died 8109,10,11.  He married (1) ALFHILD GANDOLSDOTTIR12,13 c 79014,15,16.  She died Bef. 81017,18,19.

 

Notes for ALFHILD GANDOLSDOTTIR:

[Rau Family.FBK.FTW]

 

[14495.ftw]

 

"Royalty for Commoners", Roderick W. Stuart, 1992, 2nd edition.

 

 

More About GUTHFRITH OF DENMARK and ALFHILD GANDOLSDOTTIR:

Marriage: c 79020,21,22

       

Child of GUTHFRITH OF DENMARK and ALFHILD GANDOLSDOTTIR is:

4.                i.    OLAF "GEIRSTADA-ALF"3 IN VESTFOLD, b. 810; d. Bet. 830 - 840.

 

       

Child of GUTHFRITH "THE PROUD" OF DENMARK is:

                  ii.    HALFDAN "THE BLACK"3 OF VESTFOLD23,24, b. October 80925,26,27; d. 86428,29; m. RANGHILD SIGURDSSDOTTIR30,31.

 

Notes for RANGHILD SIGURDSSDOTTIR:

[Rau Family.FBK.FTW]

 

[14495.ftw]

 

Heimskringla states she is the daughter of Sigurd Hart and of Thorny daughter

of Klack Harald King of Jutland, siezed by the bareserk Haki when he had slain

her father; marriage with her put off pending the healing of Haki's wounds;but

in the meantime she is robbed from Haki by the order of King Halfdan the Black

who straightway marries her. i 81.15-83.9 her dream, 83.14=31 her son Harald

Hairfair, 85.3=9.

 

 

 

3.  JARL IVAR2 OF THE UPLANDS (HALFDAN II 'MILLDI' "THE1 EYSTEINSSON)32,33 was born 78334,35.  He married (2) DAUGHTER OF TRONDHEIM36,37, daughter of EARL OF TRONDHEIM EYSTEIN GLUMRA. 

 

Notes for JARL IVAR OF THE UPLANDS:

[Rau Family.FBK.FTW]

 

[14495.ftw]

 

Ivar, Jarl Of The Uplands Of Norway, birthdate recorded 830 assume 783.

 

 

       

Child of IVAR OF THE UPLANDS and DAUGHTER OF TRONDHEIM is:

5.                i.    "THE NOISY" GLUMRA3 EYSTEIN, b. 810, Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway.

 

 

Generation No. 3

 

4.  OLAF "GEIRSTADA-ALF"3 IN VESTFOLD (GUTHFRITH "THE PROUD"2 OF DENMARK, HALFDAN II 'MILLDI' "THE1 EYSTEINSSON)38,39 was born 81040,41, and died Bet. 830 - 84042,43,44.

       

Child of OLAF "GEIRSTADA-ALF" IN VESTFOLD is:

6.                i.    RANALD "HIGHER-THAN-THE-HILLS"4 OF ORKNEY.

 

 

5.  "THE NOISY" GLUMRA3 EYSTEIN (IVAR2 OF THE UPLANDS, HALFDAN II 'MILLDI' "THE1 EYSTEINSSON)45,46 was born 810 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway46.  He married OF JUTLAND ASCRIDA RAGNVALDSDOTTIR47,48, daughter of TORA SIGURDSDOTTIR.  She was born 812 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway48.

       

Children of GLUMRA EYSTEIN and ASCRIDA RAGNVALDSDOTTIR are:

                   i.    JARL OF ORKNEY SIGURD I4 EYSTEINSSON49,50, b. 832, of Maer, Norway51,52; d. 89253,54.

7.               ii.    "THE WISE" RAGNVALD I EYSTEINSSON, b. 837, Upland, Denmak; d. c 894, Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland.

8.              iii.    MALAHULE (HALDRICK) EYSTEINSSON, b. c 855; d. Bet. 911 - 912.

                 iv.    SWANHILDA EYSTEINSDOTTIR55,56.

                  v.    SIGURD I EYSTEINSDOTTIR56.

 

 

Generation No. 4

 

6.  RANALD "HIGHER-THAN-THE-HILLS"4 OF ORKNEY (OLAF "GEIRSTADA-ALF"3 IN VESTFOLD, GUTHFRITH "THE PROUD"2 OF DENMARK, HALFDAN II 'MILLDI' "THE1 EYSTEINSSON)57,58.

       

Child of RANALD "HIGHER-THAN-THE-HILLS" OF ORKNEY is:

                   i.    GODFREY5 OF DUBLIN59,60, d. 87361,62.

 

 

7.  "THE WISE" RAGNVALD I4 EYSTEINSSON (GLUMRA3 EYSTEIN, IVAR2 OF THE UPLANDS, HALFDAN II 'MILLDI' "THE1 EYSTEINSSON)63,64 was born 837 in Upland, Denmak65,66, and died c 894 in Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland67,68.

       

Children of "THE WISE" RAGNVALD I EYSTEINSSON are:

9.                i.    WEND-A-FOOT ROLF (ROLLO)5 OF NORMANDY, b. 854, Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway; d. 931, Notre Dame, Rouen, France.

                  ii.    HROLLAGER (HROLLAUG) OF ICELAND RAGNVALDSSON69,70, b. 854, of Maer, Norway71,72; m. EMINA (RAGNVALDSSON)73,74, 88475,76.

 

Notes for HROLLAGER (HROLLAUG) OF ICELAND RAGNVALDSSON:

[Rau Family.FBK.FTW]

 

[14495.ftw]

 

This person isn't known to Isenburg, chart 79, Vol. 2.

"Royalty for Commoners", Roderick W. Stuart, 1992, 2nd edition.

 

 

 

More About HROLLAGER (HROLLAUG) OF ICELAND RAGNVALDSSON:

Date born 2: 854, Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway76

 

More About HROLLAGER RAGNVALDSSON and EMINA (RAGNVALDSSON):

Marriage: 88477,78

 

 

8.  MALAHULE (HALDRICK)4 EYSTEINSSON (GLUMRA3 EYSTEIN, IVAR2 OF THE UPLANDS, HALFDAN II 'MILLDI' "THE1 EYSTEINSSON)79,80 was born c 85581,82, and died Bet. 911 - 91282.

 

Notes for MALAHULE (HALDRICK) EYSTEINSSON:

[Rau Family.FBK.FTW]

 

[14495.ftw]

 

Malahucius is said to be the ancestor of Ralph II de Toni .  The Complete Peerage V6.P448.j

 

 

 

More About MALAHULE (HALDRICK) EYSTEINSSON:

Died 2: December 91183,84

       

Child of MALAHULE (HALDRICK) EYSTEINSSON is:

10.              i.    RICHARD5 DE ST. SAUVEUR, d. 933.

 

 

Generation No. 5

 

9.  WEND-A-FOOT ROLF (ROLLO)5 OF NORMANDY (RAGNVALD I4 EYSTEINSSON, GLUMRA3 EYSTEIN, IVAR2 OF THE UPLANDS, HALFDAN II 'MILLDI' "THE1 EYSTEINSSON)85,86 was born 854 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway87,88, and died 931 in Notre Dame, Rouen, France89,90.  He married (1) GISELE OF WEST FRANKS91,9293,94,95, daughter of CHARLES BALD" and ERMENTRUDE FRANKS).  She was born 85896,97, and died July 01, 87498,99.  He married (2) DE VALOIS POPPA DE NORMANDY100,101 891102,103,104,105,106,107, daughter of CT DE BAYEUX BERENGER DE SENLIS.  She was born 872 in Evreux, Normandy, France107.

 

Notes for WEND-A-FOOT ROLF (ROLLO) OF NORMANDY:

[Rau Family.FBK.FTW]

 

[14495.ftw]

 

Later sources identify this Hrolf with Rollo of Normandy, an extremely doubtful identification. It is unlikely that there was any close relationship between the early dukes of Normandy and the Orkney Jarls, and Rollo's parentage is unknown.

 

Here are my notes on ROLLO, which I send in connection with a message sent

by Stewart Baldwin in which he says he suspects I took my data from the

"ridiculously unreliable Ancestral File" of the LDS.  As you can see, this

isn't quite right.

 

Gordon Fisher     gfisher@shentel.net

 

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27th ggf of Gordon Fisher

 

Or:  HROLFR the GANGER (walker), GANGE-ROLV, ROLF, ROLLO OF NORMANDY;

andlater in life, ROBERT; also HRO'LFR

 

"The central fact of Norman history ... is ... the grant of Normandy and his

northern followers in the year 911.  ...  For the actual occurences of that

year, we have only the account of a romancing historian of a hundred years

later, reenforced here and there by the exceedingly scanty records of the

time.  The main fact is clear, namely that the Frankish king, Charles the

Simple, granted Rollo as a fief a considerable part, the eastern part, of

later Normandy.  Apparently Rollo did homage for his fied in feudal fashion

by placing his hands between the hands of the king, something, we are told,

which "neither his father, nor his grandfather, nor his great-grandfather

before him had ever done for any man."  Legend goes on to relate, however,

that Rollo refused to kneel and kiss the king's foot, crying out in his own

speech, "No, by God!" and that the companion to whom he delegated the

unwelcome obligation performed it so clumsily that he overturned the king,

to the great merriment of the assembled Northmen.  ...  As to Rollo's

personality, we have only the evidence of later Norman historians of

doubtful authority and the Norse saga of HArold Fairhair.  If, as seems

likely, their accounts relate to the same person, he was known in the north

as Hrolf the Ganger, because he was so huge that no horse could carry him

and he must needs gang afoot.  A pirate at home, he was driven into exile by

the anger of King Harold, whereupon he followed his trade in the Western

Isles and in Gaul, and rose to be a great Jarl among his people.  The saga

makes him a Norwegian, but Danish scholars have sought to prove him a Dane,

and more recently the cudgels have been taken up for his Swedish origin. To

me the NOrwegian theory seems on the whole the most probable, being based on

a trustworthy saga and corroborated by other incidental evidence.  ... The

important fact is that Norway, Denmark, and even more distant Sweden, all

contributed to the colonists who settled in Normandy under Rollo and his

successors, and the achievements of the Normans thus become the common

heritage of the Scandinavian race.  (P) The colonization of Normandy was, of

course, only a small part of the work of this heroic age of Scandinavian

expansion.  The great emigration from the North in the ninth and tenth

centuries has been explained in part by the growth of centralized government

and the consequent departure of the independent, the turbulent, and the

untamed for new fields of adventure; but its chief cause was doubtless that

which lies back of colonizing movements in all ages, the growth of

population and the need of more room.  Five centuries earlier this

land-hunger had pushed the Germanic tribes across the Rhine and Danube and

produced the great wandering of the peoples which destroyed the Roman

empire; and the Viking raids were simply a later aspect of this same

*Vo"lkerwanderung*, retarded by the outlying position of the Scandinavian

lands and by the greater difficulty of migration by sea. For, unlike the

Goths who swept across the map of Europe in vast curves of marching men, or

the Franks who moved forward by slow stages of gradual settlement in their

occupation of Roman Gaul, the Scandinavian invaders were men of the sea and

migrated in ships."

   --- Charles Homer Haskins, *The Normans in European History*, Boston &

NY, 1915, p 26-30 passim.  From p 48 & 50:  "At this point the fundamental

question forces itself upon us, how far was Normandy affected by

Scandinavian influences?  What in race and language, in law and custom, was

the contribution of the north to Normandy?  And the answer must be that in

most respects the tangible contribution was slight.  Whatever may have been

the state of affairs in the age of colonization and settlement, by the

century which followed the Normans had become to a surprising degree

absorbed by their environment.  .....  What, then, was the Scandinavian

contribution to the making of Normandy if it was neither law nor speech nor

race?  First and foremost, it was Normandy itself, created as a distinct

entity by the Norman occupation and the grant to Rollo and his followers,

without whom it would have remained an undifferentiated part of northern

France. Next, a new element in the population, numerically small in

proportion to the ass, but a leaven to the whole --- quick to absorb

Frankish law and Christian culture but retaining its northern qualities of

enterprise, of daring, and of leadership.  It is no accident that the names

of the leaders in early Norman movements are largely Norse.  And finally a

race of princes, high-handed and masteful but with a talent for political

organization, state-builders at home and abroad, who made Normandy the

strongest and most centralized principality in France and joined to it a

kingdom beyond the seas which became the strongest state in western Europe."

 

"GANGER ROLF, "the Viking" (or ROLLO), banished from Norway to the Hebrides

ca. 876, 890 participated in Viking attack on Bayeux, where Count Berenger

of Bayeux was killed, and dau. Poppa captured and taken, 886, by Rollo (now

called Count of Rouen) as his "Danish" wife.  Under Treaty of St. Claire,

911, rec'd the Duchy of Normandy from CHARLES III, "the Simple"; d. ca. 927

(Isenburg says 931), bur. Notre Dame, Rouen. ... Note: Isenburg inserts a

Robert between Rollo and William I, and makes Robert the conqueror of

Bayeux, husb. of Poppa, and 1st Duke.  Chronology favors the descent given

by Moriarty and Onslow.  It seems probable that Robert was another name for

Rollo.  If there really was a Robert as 1st Duke, then [ROBERT I] would be

ROBERT II, which is not the case.  For additional data on William II of

Normandy and I of England the reader may consult David C. Douglas, *William

the Conqueror* (1964).  Besides a dau. Gerloc (or Adela) who m. 935 WILLIAM

I ... Count of Poitou, Ganger Rolf had [WILLIAM I, "Longsword"]."

   --- Weis & Sheppard, *Ancestral Roots ... *, 7th Edition, 1992, p 110

 

"Rollo (Rollon, Ranger Rolf [sic, instead of Ganger], 1st Duke of Normandy,

Count of Rouen; conquered Normandy; b. c870, Maer, Norway, d. 927-932; md

(2) 891 Poppa de Bayeux, Duchess of Norway; b. c872, Bayeux, France; dau

Berenger de Bayeux, Count of Bayeux; d. bef. 930; and N.N. of Rennes."

  --- Roderick W Stuart, *Royalty for Commoners*, 2nd edn, 1992, p 123-124

 

     The definitive establishment of the Normans, to whom the country owes

its name, took place in 911, when by the treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte,

concluded between King Charles the Simple of France and Rolf or Rollo, chief

of the Normans, the territory comprising the town of Rouen and a few 'pagi'

situated on the sea-coast was ceded to the latter; but the terms of the

treaty are ill-defined, and it is consequently almost impossible to find out

the exact extent of this territory or to know whether Brittany was at this

time made a feudal dependency of Normandy.  But the chronicler Dudo of

Saint-Quentin's statement that Rollo married Gisela, daughter of Charles the

Simple, must be considered to be legendary work of Dudo of Saint-Quentin

[who?] is practically our only authority.

     Rollo died in 927 and was succeeded by his son William ...

   --- (Source ???)

 

"Charles [the Simple], the son-in-law of eEward, constrained thereto by

Rollo, through a succession of calamities, conceded to him that part of Gaul

which at present is called Normandy.  It would be tedious to relate for how

many years, and with what audacity, the Normans disquieted every place from

the British ocean, as I have said, to the Tuscan sea.  First Hasten, and

then Rollo; who, born of noble lineage among the Norwegians, though obsolete

from its extreme antiquity, was banished, by the king's command, from his

own country, and brought over with multitudes, who were in danger, either

from debt or consciousness of guilt, and whom he had allured by great

expectations of advantage.  Betaking himself therefore to piracy, after his

cruelty had raged on every side at pleasure, he experienced a check at

Chartres.  For the townspeople, relying neither on arms nor fortifications,

piously impoored the assistance of the blessed Virgin Mary.  The shift too

of the virgin, which Charles the Bald displayed to the winds on the

samparts, thronged by the garrison, after the fashion of a banner. The

enemy on seeing it began to laught, and to direct their arrows at it. This,

however, was not done with impunity; for presently their eyes became dim,

and they could neither retreat nor advance.  The townsmen, with joy

perceiving this, indulged themselves in a plentiful slaughter of them, as

far as fortune permitted.  Rollo, however, whom God reserved for the true

faith, escaped, and soon after gained Rouen and the neighboring cities by

force of arms, in the year of our Lord 876, and one year before the death of

Charles the Bald, whose grandson Lewis, as is before mentioned, vanquished

the Normans, but did not expel them; but Charles, the brother of that Lewis,

grandson of Charles the Bald, by his son Lewis, as I have said aboce,

repeatedly experiencing, from unsuccessful conflicts, that fortune gave him

nothing which she took from others, resolved, after consulting his nobility,

that it was advisable to make a show of royal munificence, when he was

unable to repel injury; and, in a friendly manner, sent for Rollo.  He was

at this time far advanced in years; and, consequently, easily inclined to

pacific measures.  It was therefore determined by treaty, that he should be

baptized, and hold that country of the king as his lord.  The inbred and

untameable ferocity of the man may well be imagined, for, on receiving this

gift, as the by standers suggested to him, that he ought to kiss the foot of

his benefactor, disdaining to kneel down, he seized the king's foot and

dragged it to his mouth as he stood erect.  The king falling on his back,

the Normans began to laugh, and the Franks to be indignant; but Rollo

apologized for his shameful conduct, by saying that it was the custom of his

country.  Thus the affair being settled, Rollo returned to Rouen, and there

died."

   --- William of Malmesbury, *Chronicle of the Kings of England*, c 1135,

tr John Allen Giles, London (Henry G Bohn) 1847, p 125-126

 

"It is not known when Rollo arrived in the Viking kingdom [in Normandy].

Dudo says that he took Rouen in 877, but most historians are agreed that

Rollo probably did not appear in Francia until the early tenth century. The

possibility exists however, that Dudo is preserving a belief that Vikings

had been established in the Rouen area from about this time.  Rollo is

thought to have been Norwegian rather than Danish, and later Icelandic

sources identify him with Hrolf the Ganger (walker), son of Ragnvald earl of

Moer, who had a career as a Viking before settling in Francia.  He married a

Christian woman and his son William, according to the Lament of William

Longsword, was born overseas.  (P) Nothing more in known about the 'Treaty

of St Clair-sur-Epte' concluded in a personal interview between Charles the

Simple and Rollo than Dudo tells us, and he has been accused of inventing

the meeting.  That a cession of territory in the Seine, extending as far

west as the mouth of the Seine on the coast and near the source of the Eure

inland is affirmed by a charter of Charles the Simple dated 14 March 918.

..... Flodoard adds the information that Rollo received baptism and the

Frankish name Robert with the cession of this territory.  (P) Rollo seems to

have been made a count in 911, with the traditional duties assigned to a

Carolingian count, namely, protection and the administration of justice. He

was certainly subordinate to the Frankish king.  With the proliferation of

titles accorded the leader of the Normandy Vikings in later sources, some

historians hace suggested that Rollo was made a duke, but Werner has argued

that there was no Norman *marchio* before 950-6, and no duke before

987-1006, that is, after Hugh Capet had gained the throne of France. .....

(P) Rollo appears to have received his territory on similar terms as the

Bretons had received the Cotentin, except that the bishoprics were also

ceded. ..... In exchange, Rollo was to defend the Seine from other Vikings,

accept baptism and become the *fidelis* of the Frankish king.  That there

were other groups of Vikings in the region, particularly in the western part

of Normandy, is clear.  The west stayed pagan longer; it was a century

before a bishop was appointed to the Cotnetin.  .....  (P) The arrangement

made in 911 proved successful ..... The area of Normandy by 933 corresponded

to the area of the archdiocese of Rouen, with the seven *civitates* of

Rouen, Bayeux, Avranches, Evreux, See's, Lisieux and Coutances.  The

fortunes of the bishops of Rouen and of the (principes* of Normandy were in

fact closely associated from the very beginning."

   --- Rosamond McKitterick, *The Frankish Kingdom under the Carolingians,

751-987*, London & NY (Longman) 1983, p 237-238

 

"A.D. 917. .....  Rollo, first duke of Normandy, died, and was succeeded by

his son William."

   --- Florence of Worcester (died c 1117), *A History of the Kings of

England* (OR: *The Chronicle of Florence of Worcester*), trans Joseph

Stephenson, 1853 (reprinted by Llanerch Enterprises, Felinfach, Lampeter,

Dyfed, Wales SA48 8PJ, 1980s (?)), p 76

 

 

 

More About ROLF OF NORMANDY and GISELE FRANKS:

Marriage: 108,109,110

 

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