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Anarawd
ap RHODRI, son of Rhodri "Mawr" ap Merfyn, and Angharad verch Meurig,was
born about 857 in Gwynedd, Wales. He died in 916.
"Anarawd ap Rhodri Mawr became King of Gwynedd in 878 on the death of his
father. He abandoned an alliance with the Danish Kingdom of York and acknowledged
Ælfred the Great as overlord; as did his brothers and other lesser
rulers. The precise nature of this overlordship is not known, and there
was an attempt to portray this submission as a desire for unity among Christian
rulers against the pagan Danes. However, this recognition by Welsh
rulers that that the King of England had claims upon them would be a central
fact in the subsequent history of Wales. Died in 916"
http://www3.sympatico.ca/robert.sewell/wales.html#gen19
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Rognvald
I "The Wise" EYSTEINSSON, EARL OF MORE AND ROMSDAL, son of Eystein
Ivarsson, and Ascrida Rognvaldsdatter, Countess of Oppland,was born about
830 in Maer, Nord Trondelag, Norway. He died in 890/894 in Orkney, Orkney
Islands, Scotland. He married Ragnhild (Hilda) HROLFSDATTER about 867 in
Maer, Nord Trondelag, Norway.
"On the voyage Sigurd’s brother, Earl Rognvald of More, received the Earldom
of Orkney from King Harald as compensation for the loss of his son, Ivar.
Rognvald had no intentions of staying in the islands so passed the Earldom
on to Sigurd, who became Earl Sigurd I of Orkney."
http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/historicalfigures/sigmighty.htm
"During his many campaigns, Harald allowed his hair to grow long and tangle
into dread-locks, vowing that he would not cut his hair again until he
was king of all Norway. Thus he had become known as Harald Mop-hair,
at least behind his back. At first, Harald ruled primarily in the Southlands
and Uplands. Jarl Hakon and his comrade, Rognvald of Mere, had originally
fought against Harald Mop-hair, but eventually they realized that they
had more to gain as Harald’s allies than his enemies. Harald made Rognvald
Jarl of North and South Mere and of Raumdall after his victory at Solskiel
over Hunthjof, King of Mere, and Nokve, King of Raumdall. When Harald had
finally conquered all of Norway, it was Rognvald Eysteinsson, Mere-jarl,
who cut Harald’s hair and gave him the new name, Harald Fine-hair."
http://www.mindandmemorypress.com/njall_excerpt.html
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Ragnhild
(Hilda) HROLFSDATTER, daughter of Hrolf Nefja, was born about
848 in Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland.
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Bérenger
de BAYEUX was born about 847 in Bayeux, Neustria.
"Rollo was a Duke. Banished from Norway to the Hebrides circa 876, 890 participated in Viking attack on Bayeux, where Count Berenger of Bayeux was killed, and his daughter Poppa captured and taken, 866, by Rollo (now called Count of Rouen) as his "Danish" wife.
http://www.tacrocker.com/Website/p54.htm
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Donald
II Dasachtach, King of SCOTLAND, son of Constantine I, King of Scotland,was
born about 862 in Scotland. He died in 900 in Forres, Morayshire, Scotland.
"King of the Scots (from 889), son of Constantine I and successor to Eochaid
and Giric (reigned 878-889). His reign coincided with renewed invasions
by the Danes, who came less to plunder and more to occupy the lands bordering
Scotland and the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. He was also embroiled in efforts
to reduce the highland robber tribes. By one account he was slain at Dunnottar,
meeting a Danish invasion; by another he died of infirmity brought on by
his campaigns against the highlanders. He was succeeded by his cousin Constantine
II."
http://www.corriebusinessgroup.com/research/kings2.php
"After the death of Eochaid and Giric, the care-taking of the throne see-sawed between two descendants of the sons of Kenneth MacAlpin, Constantine I and Aed. Constantine's son Donald II emerged as ruler, and he didn't pick the best time to be King. The Danish, led by 'Sigurd the Mighty', had conquered the whole of the north of Scotland. Sigurd claimed the lands, slew his adversary 'Melbrigda Tonn', cut off his head, and ceremoniously hung it from his saddle. This proved to be a fatal mistake. The severed head bounced against Sigurd's leg, a tooth from the head cut his leg, and caused him to die from blood poisoning. From then on, ' Melbrigda Tonn' was known as 'The Tooth'. Donald II, spent most of his reign fending off the Danish, from the north (formerly led by Sigurd), and the from the south (led by the Danish leader 'Guthrum'), and died near Forres in 900. Some say he was poisoned."
http://www.martinmchale.com/clan/monarch1.htm
26-9
Robert
"Fortis" Duke of FRANCE, COUNT OF ORLEANS, son of Rutpert III of Wormsgau,
and Wiltrud of Orleans, was born about 820 in France. He died on
25 Aug 866 in Anjou, France. He was buried on 25 Aug 866 in St. Martin
de Châteauneuf, France. He married Adélaïde (Adelheid),
Princess of the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE in 864 in France.
26-10
Adélaïde
(Adelheid) Princess of the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, daughter of Louis "The
Pious", Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, and Ermengarde,was born about
824 in Tours, France. She died in 866.
26-11
Herbert
I, Count of VERMANDOIS, son of Pepin II Quentin, Count of Vermandois,
and was born about 848 in Vermandois, Neustria. He died in 902. He married
the Princess of FRANCE.
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Princess
of FRANCE was born about 862 in France.
26-13
Otto,
Duke of SAXONY, COUNT IN SOUTH THURINGIA, son of Liudolf, Duke
of East Saxony, and Oda of Saxony, was born about 851
in Saxony. He died on 30 Nov 912. He married Hathui in 869.
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Hathui
was
born about 855 in Saxony. She died in 906.
26-15
Theodoric,
Count of RINGELHEIM, son of Reginhart, Count of Ringelheim, and Matilda,was
born about 853 in Ringelheim,Goslar, Hannover, Prussia. He married Ludmilla
Ragnhildis.
26-16
Ludmilla
Ragnhildis, daughter of Gottfried and Matilda, was born about
858 in Germany.
26-17
Ranulph
II, Count of POITIERS, son of Ranulph I, Count of Poitiers,was born
about 855 in Poitiers, Aquitaine. He died on 5 Aug 890. He married Adélaïde,
Princess of FRANCE about 875.
26-18
Adélaïde,
Princess of FRANCE, daughter of Louis II, King of France, and Ansgarde,
Princess of Burgundy, was born about 856 in France.
26-19 Edward I "The Elder", King of ENGLAND, son of Alfred "The Great", King of England, and Ealhswith, was born about 871 in Wessex, England. He died in 924 in Farrington, Berkshire, England. He married Elfleda.
"Edward became king of Wessex following the death of his illustrious father Alfred the Great in 899. His first task was to secure his throne against the challenge of his cousin Aethelwold, who seized the royal estates of Wimbourne and Christchurch. Aethelwold fled from military confrontation with Edward only to return with a fleet, and to raise an army, in the following year. In the consequent battle (902) Edward triumphed and Aethelwold was killed. The kingdom of Wessex which Edward had inherited from his father was certainly far more secure than it was thirty years earlier at the time when Danish armies were first looking to establish permanent settlements in the north and east of England, but the presence of these settlements posed a constant challenge. Alfred had begun the task of fortifying the strategic points of his kingdom which had been so successful in nullifying the Danish invasion of 892. Now Edward, in alliance with Aethelred and Aethelfleda of Mercia, continued the process. The 'Burghal Hildage', a document from the early years of Edward's reign, details the 30 or more burhs that had already been set up in Wessex and these were added to by Edward. Aethelfleda, Edward's ally and sister, was especially successful in using the strategy to build up the defenses of Mercia.
At the Battle of Tettenhall in August 910, Edward defeated a Northumbrian force which had been raiding into Mercia and by 914 both Wessex and Mercia were ready to take the attack to the Danes. The combined campaign against Danelaw and its Five Boroughs of Leicester, Derby, Stamford, Nottingham and Lincoln, reached its successful conclusion in 918.
In that year Aethelfleda died and her daughter was appointed her successor in Mercia. At first Edward accepted the situation but after a year he seized the girl and ruled Mercia directly, thus ending the independence of the once powerful Mercian kingdom.
Edward was now ruler of all of the English and Danish peoples south of the Humber and, although he did nothing in 919 to stop the Danish kingdom of York falling to Ragnald, a Viking from the Norse kingdom of Dublin, he was recognised as overlord by all of the other significant kings of Britain (920). Edward died on 17 July 924; he was succeeded by his son Athelstan."
http://www.historybookshop.com/articles/people/monarchs/edward-the-elder.asp
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Elfleda,
daughter
of Ethelhelm, was born about 878 in Wessex, England.
26-21
Ingelger
I, Count of ANJOU AND ORLEANS, son of Tertulle, Count of Anjou, and
Petronilla, was born about 845 in Anjou, France. He died about 893
in St. Martin, Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. He was buried in St. Martin,
Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. He married Aelinde (Rescinde) de AMBOISE
about 869 in France.
"Located in the western French area of Maine-et-Loire , organized in the
Gallo-Roman period as the Civitas Andegavensis, it later became the countship
of Anjou and from 1360, the duchy of Anjou. Under a son of Robert the Strong,
Ingelger became the founder of the first Angevin dynasty."
http://marglynn.com/gen/france.htm
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Aelinde
(Rescinde) de AMBOISE was born about 844 in Tours, France.
26-23
Garnier,
Seigneur de LOCHES DE VILLENTROIS was born about 844 in Loches, France.
26-25
Ryurik,
Grand Duke of NOVGOROD was born about 830 in Novgorod, Russia. He died
in 879. He married Efenda (Edvina) about 876 in Novgorod, Russia.
"The political organization of the Eastern Slavs was still largely tribal;
they had created no unified system through which their constant tribal
conflicts could be resolved. According to Russian tradition recorded in
the Primary Russian Chronicle, the chief source of much of early Russian
history, internal dissension and feuds among the Eastern Slavs around Novgorod
became so violent that they voluntarily chose to call upon a foreign prince
who could unite them into one strong state. Their choice was Rurik, or
Ryurik, a Scandinavian chief, who in 862 became ruler of Novgorod."
http://www.hopeforbryansk.com/Bryansk/history.htm
"Semilegendary Varangian warrior, regarded as the founder of the princely
dynasty of Kievan Rus. Rurik and his two brothers, at the head of an armed
band, apparently seized Novgorod and nearby districts (c.862). According
to unreliable early accounts, they had been invited by the local Slavs.
Rurik’s successors founded the powerful Kievan state, which lasted until
the 13th cent. The house of Rurik also came to rule the grand duchy of
Moscow, and later all Russia, until the death of Feodor I in 1598."
http://www.bartleby.com/65/ru/Rurik.html
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Efenda
(Edvina) was born about 850 in Novgorod, Russia.
26-27
Erik
EDMUNDSSON, KING OF SWEDEN, son of Edmund Eriksson, was born
about 849 in Sweden. He died about 900.
26-29
Ziemomysl,
Prince of POLAND, son of Leszek IV, Prince of Poland,was born about
892 in Poznan, Poland. He died before 964.
26-31
Boleslav
I, Duke of BOHEMIA, son of Vratislav I, Duke of Bohemia, and Drahomira
ze Stodor, Princess of Lutice, was born about 900 in Praha, Czechoslovakia.
He died on 15 Jul 967. He married Bozena or Biagota.
"Duke of Bohemia (929–67). He became duke by assassinating his elder brother,
Duke Wenceslaus (see Wenceslaus, Saint). Although Boleslav was involved
in constant warfare against the encroaching Germans, he was able to create
a Bohemian state. He built fortresses to control restless tribes, conquered
Moravia and part of Silesia, and encouraged the spread of Christianity.
In 950 he was forced to recognize German suzerainty, although Bohemia remained
largely autonomous."
http://www.bartleby.com/65/bo/Boleslav1.html
"Many of the Bohemian nobles resented Wenceslas's attempts to spread Christianity,
and were displeased when he swore allegiance to the king of Germany, Henry
I. The duke's most deadly enemy proved to be his own brother, Boleslav,
who joined the nobles who were plotting his brother's assassination. He
invited Wenceslas to a religious festival and then attacked him on his
way to mass. As the two were struggling, Boleslav's supporters jumped in
and murdered Wenceslas."
http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/Wenceslas.html
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Bozena
or Biagota was born about 901 in Praha, Czechoslovakia.
26-33
Herbert
I, Count of VERMANDOIS is printed as #26-11.
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Princess
of FRANCE is printed as #26-12.
26-35
Robert
I, King of FRANCE, COUNT OF PARIS is printed as #25-13.
26-36
Béatrice
de VERMANDOIS is printed as #25-14.
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Rainer
(Regnier) I, Duke of LORRAINE, son of Giselbert, Count of the Moselle,
and Ermengarde, was born in 860 in France. He died in 916. He married
Hersent in 889.
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Hersent,
daughter
of Charles II, the Bald King, was born about 865 in Lorraine, France.
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Heinrich
I, King of the GERMANS is printed as #25-15.
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Matilda,
Countess of RINGELHEIM is printed as #25-16.
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Tuathal,
King of LEINSTER, son of Ugaire, King of Leinster, was born
about 890 in Ireland. He died in 956.
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