Early Kings of
One Gorm
"the Old" became King of
1a) Knut Danaast, murdered ca 940
1b) Gold-Harald, murdered ca 970
2a) Harald "Bluetooth", King of
1b) Svend I
"Fork-beard" King of
1c) Knut "the Great",
King of
1d) Hardeknut, King of
2d) Gunhild=Kunigunde (d.18 Jul
1038; bur Kl Limburg); m.Jun 1036 Emperor Heinrich III (d.5 Oct 1056)
3d) [?illegitimate by Aelfgifu
Aelfhelmsdotter] Svend, King of Norway 1030-35, d.1036; note: a correspondent
has sent me information which casts doubt on the assertion that Svend and
Harald Harefoot were sons of Knut: “The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says:
“And Harold, who said that he was son of Cnut and the other Ælfgifu
– although this was not true” (version C), “And Harold said
that he was son of Cnut and the Northampton Ælfgifu – although this was
not true” (version D). According to a later work, the Chronicon ex
Chronicis, Harald was the son of a shoemaker, and Swein of a priest.”
4d) [?illegitimate
by Aelfgifu] Harald "Harefoot" King of
2c) Harald, King of
3c) Gyda; m.ca 996 Erik
Hakonson Jarl, Reichsverweser of Norway (d.1024)
4c) Estrid; m.1st Duke
Richard II of Normandy; m.2nd Ulf Jarl, Reichsverweser of
2b) Gunhild, murdered 13 Nov
1002; m.Pallig, an Ealdorman in
3b) ?
Hakon, who settled in Northumbria
4b) ?Thyra,
d.1000; m.1st Bjorn "the Strong" of
3a) ?Gunhild, d.after 970; m.Erik "Bloodaxe", King of
Part 2
This line starts
with one Thorgils Sprakling. Burke's Guide to the Royal Family says that he was
son of Styrbjorn by his wife Thyra, dau.of King Harald Bluetooth. Europäische
Stammtafeln does not show his parentage and does not show Styrbjorn among the
husbands of Thyra.[See Part 1]; A correspondent has
sent me further information on this: “Searle (Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings
and Nobles) shows Thurgils Sprakalegg as the son of Styrbiörn (son of Olaf king
of
At any rate, Thorgils had two children: a dau., Gytha,
who m.Earl Godwin and was mother of King Harald Godwinson of
Ulf Jarl, and
earl in England, Reichsverweser of Denmark, murdered 1026. He
m.Estrid, dau.of King Svend I of
1a) Svend Estridsen, became King of
1b) [by 1st
m.] Svend, murdered 1097; m.Florine (d.1097) dau.of Eudes I, Duc
de Bourgogne
2b) [by 3rd
m.] Magnus, d.young
3b) [illegitimate] Harald Hen,
King of Denmark 1076, d.17 Apr 1080; m.Margareta, dau.of Asbjorn Odanejarl
4b) [illegitimate] [
1c) Charles "the
Good", Count of
2c) Cecilie; m.Erik Jarl of
3c) Ingegerd; m.Folke "the
Fat", a Swede; their son
5b) [illegitimate] Olaf I
Hunger, King of
6b) [illegitimate] Erik
"the Good", King of
1c) Knut Lavand, King of South
Jutland 1115, King of the Wends 1129 (
1d) Waldemar I "the
Great" King of
2d) Margareta; m.Stig Hvitaledr
3d) Christina, b.1118; m.1133
King Magnus "the Blind" of
4d) Katharina; m.ca 1159
Prislaw of the Wends
2c) [illegitimate] Harald
Kesja, Reichsverweser of Denmark, murdered 1135; m.Ragnhild, dau.of King Harald
BearFoot of Norway; the first six of his children below are presumed to be
legitimate; the other six are presumed to be illegitimate
1d) Erik Haraldsen, drowned
1134
2d) Bjorn Jernside, drowned
1134; m.Katharina, dau.of King Inge I of
1e) Christina; m.[
3d) Magnus Haraldsen, k.a.4 Jun
1134
4d) Olaf Haraldsen, anti-King,
k.a.1143; he may have been father of King Harald "the Thin" of
5d) Harald Haraldsen, murdered
1135
6d) Knut Haraldsen, murdered
1135
7d) Sivard Haraldsen, murdered
1135
8d) Erik Haraldsen, murdered
1135
9d) Svend Haraldsen, murdered
1135
10d) Niels Haraldsen, murdered
1135
11d) Benedikt Haraldsen,
murdered 1135
12d) Mistivint Haraldsen,
murdered 1135
3c) [illegitimate] Benedikt
4c) [illegitimate] Erik II
Emun, King of
1d) Svend II, King of Seeland
1147, King of
1e) Erik, d.ca 1157
2e) Luitgard; m.ca 1180
Berthold Gf von Andechs, Mgve of
5c) [illegitimate] Ragnhild;
m.Hakon Sunnivasson
1d) Erik III Lam, King of
1e) [illegitimate] Magnus,
living 1178
7b) [illegitimate] Svend, d.1104
1c) Henrik "the
Limper", k.a.4 Jun 1134; m.Ingrid (d.after 1161) dau.of Ragnvald Ingersson
of
1d) Magnus, King of
2d) Ragnvald, Jarl in Sweden,
k.a.1161
3d) Knut, Duke of Jutland, d.12
Mar 1162
4d) Buris, Duke of
5d) Johann, Jarl in Sweden,
d.ca 1161
8b) [illegitimate] Niels, King
of
1c) Magnus "the
Strong", King of Västergotland, King of
1d) Knut III Magnussen, King of
1e) [
2e) Waldemar, Bp of Schleswig 1182,
Archbishop of Bremen 1211, d.Citeaux
2d) Niels, d.1158
2c) Inge, d.1121
3c) [illegitimate] Ingrid;
m.before 1117 Ubbe Esbernsen (murdered 1133)
9b) [illegitimate] Thorgils
10b)
[illegitimate] Sigurd, k.a.
11b) [illegitimate] Benedikt,
k.a.1086
12b) [illegitimate] Bjorn,
murdered 1100
13b) [illegitimate] Guttorm
14b) [illegitimate] Eymund
15b) [illegitimate] Ulf
16b) [illegitimate] Ragnhild;
m.Sven Askelsson of
17b) [illegitimate]
Helene=Gunhild
2a) Bjorn, Jarl in England, murdered 1049
1b) Asmund
"Free-booter", k.a.1065
3a) Asbjorn, Jarl in
Part 3
King Waldemar I "the Great" of Denmark [See
Part 2] had issue:
1a) Knut IV, King of
2a) Waldemar II "the Conqueror", King of
1b) Waldemar III, King of
2b) Erik IV
"Plough-Penny" King of
1c) Christoffer, d.by
2c) Knut, d.by
3c) Sophie, d.1286; m.1260 King
Waldemar of Sweden (d.1302)
4c) Ingeborg (1244-24/26 Mar
1287); m.11 Sep 1261 King Magnus IV of Norway (d.1280)
5c) Jutta, Abbess of St.Agneta
in Roskilde (1246-1284)
6c) Agnes, Abbess of St.Agneta
in Roskilde (1249-1288/95)
3b) Abel, King of Denmark 1250,
k.a.29 Jun 1252; m.25 Apr 1237 Mechtild (d.1288) dau.of Adolf Gf von Holstein
(and later wife of Birger Jarl, Swedish Reichsverweser)
1c) Waldemar III, Duke of South
Jutland (1238-1257)
2c) Erich I, Duke of Schleswig
(South Jutland), d.27 May 1272; m.1259/60 Margareta (d.1272) dau.of Pr Jaromar
II of Rügen
1d) Waldemar IV, Duke of
1e) Erich II, Duke of
1f) Waldemar V, Duke of
1g) Heinrich, Duke of
2g) Waldemar, d.ca 1364
2f) Heilwig, d.1374; m.shortly
before
2e) [illegitimate] Abel
Waldemarsen; m.Cecilie N à issue
2d) Erik Eriksen
"Long-bone", Pr of Langeland (1272-1310); m.1295 Sophie (d.1325)
dau.of Burchard Gf von Rosenberg, Bggf von Magdeburg
3d) Margareta, d.after 14 Aug
1313; m.bfore 1287 Helmold III Gf von Schwerin
3c) Abel (1252-2 Apr 1279);
m.Mechtild, dau.of Gunzel Gf von Schwerin
1d) Margareta, a nun in
Zarrentin, d.1281
4c) Sophie (1240-after 1284);
m.1258 Bernhard I, Fürst von Anhalt-Bernburg (d.1286/7)
4b) Christoph I, King of
1c) Erik V Klipping, King of
1d) Erik VI Mändved, King of
Denmark 1286 (1274-13 Nov 1319); m.1296 Ingeborg (d.1319) dau.of King Magnus
Ladulas of
1e) Waldemar, d.1302
2e) Erik, d.young
3e) Magnus, d.young
4e) a son, b.and d.1318
2d) Christoph II, King of
1e) Erik (1307-1332); m.1330
Elisabeth, dau.of Heinrich Gf von Holstein
2e) Otto, Duke of Lolland and
3e) Waldemar IV Atterdag, King
of Denmark 1340 (1320-24 Oct 1375); m.shortly before 4 Jun 1340 Heilwig (d.ca
1374), dau.of Duke Erich II of
1f) Christopher, Duke of
2f) Waldemar, b.1350, d.young
3f) Margareta (1345-1350)
4f) Ingeborg (1 Apr 1347-by 16
Jun 1370); m.1361/2 Duke Heinrich III of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d.1383)
1g) Duke Albrecht IV,
recognized as heir of
2g) Marie (1363-1402); m.1380 Duke
Wratislaw
1h) Bogislaw, became King Erich
I of
2h) Catharine (ca 1390-Kloster
Gnadenburg 4 Mar 1426); m.1407 Johann, Pfalzgraf von Neumarkt (Neunburg vorm
Wald ca 1383-Benedictine Kloster Kastl/Oberpfalz 13 Mar 1443, bur Neunburg vorm
Wald)
1i) King Christoph III of
5f) Katharina, b.1349, d.young
6f) Margareta, Queen of Denmark
1387, of Norway 1388, and of Sweden 1389 (1353-28 Oct 1412); m.9 Apr 1363 King
Hakon VI of Norway and Sweden (d.1380)
1g) Olaf II & IV, King of
4e) Margareta (1305-1340);
m.Dec 1324 Duke Ludwig V of
5e) Agnes, d.1312
6e) Heilwig
7e) [illegitimate] Regitze
Christoffersdatter; m.Peter Stigsen, of Krapperup
8e) [illegitimate] Erik
Christoffersen; he left descendants extinct in the male line in the 16th
century.
3d) Waldemar, d.1304
4d) Richiza, d.ca 1308;
m.1291/1301 Nikolaus II, Pr of Werle (d.1316)
5d) Margareta, d.2 Mar 1341;
m.25 Nov 1298 King Birger of Sweden (d.1321)
6d) Katharina, b.and d.1283
7d) Elisabeth, b.and d.1283
2c) Waldemar, d.1259
3c) Niels, d.young
4c) Mechtild, d.1299/1300; m.ca
1269 Mgve Albrecht III of Brandenburg (d.1300)
5c) Margareta, d.2 Feb 1306;
m.ca 1276 Johann II Gf von Holstein (d.1321)
5b) Sophie (1217-2 Nov 1247);
m.ca 1236 Mgve Johann I of
6b) [illegitimate] Niels I, Ct
of Halland, d.1218/9; m.1217/8 Oda, heiress of half of
7b) [illegitimate by Helene
Guttormsdotter] Knut, Duke of Estonia, Blekinge and Lolland, d.1260; m.a dau.of
Duke Swantepolk of Pomerelia à issue
8b) an
illegitimate dau.
3a) Sophie (1159-1208); m.1181 Siegfried Gf von Orlamünde
(d.1206)
4a) Margareta, a nun at
5a) Maria, a nun at
6a) Ingeborg (1175-1237/8); m.1193 (repudiated 1193) King
Philippe II Auguste of France
7a) Helene, d.1123; m.Duke Wilhelm of Saxe-Lauenburg
(d.1213)
8a) Rikissa, d.8 May 1220; m.1210 King Erik of Sweden
(d.1216)
9a) [illegitimate] Christoffer, Duke of South Jutland
(1150-1173)