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Persönliche Daten Thorfinn II GURDSSON 

• Er wurde geboren im Jahr 1009 in Caithness, Scotland.
• Titel: Earl of Caithness
• (Event) im Jahr 1040 in After Duncan's murder, he obtained dominion over the whole of North Scotland.Quelle 1
• (Titles) im Jahr 1014 in 1st Earl of Caithness (Scotland).
• (Relationship) : 30th Great Grandfather.
• (Event) im Jahr 1034 in On King Malcolm II's death, he disputed Duncan's right to the Scottish Throne.Quelle 1
• (Titles) in Jarl of Orkney.
• Er ist verstorben im Jahr 1056 in Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland, er war 47 Jahre alt.
• Ein Kind von SIGURD II HLODVERSSON und OLITH ANLETA THORA DONADA MACKENNETH

Familie von Thorfinn II GURDSSON

Er ist verheiratet mit Ingibiorg FINNSDOTTIR.

Sie haben geheiratet im Jahr 1037 in Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland, er war 28 Jahre alt.

Kind(er):

1. Erland THORFINNSON  1048-????
2. Paul THORFINNSSON  1044-1103 
3. Dolfin THORFINNSSON  1042-1064 

Notizen bei Thorfinn II GURDSSON

Thorfinn Sigurdsson (1009?-c. 1065), also known as Thorfinn the Mighty, was an 11th-century Earl of Orkney. He was the youngest of five sons of Earl Sigurd Hlodvirsson and the only one resulting from Sigurd's marriage to a daughter of Malcolm II of Scotland. He ruled alone as earl for about a third of the time that he held the title and jointly with one or more of his brothers or with his nephew Rögnvald Brusason for the remainder. Thorfinn married Ingibiorg Finnsdottir, daughter of Finn Arnesson, Jarl of Halland.

The Heimskringla of Icelandic historian Snorri Sturluson, and the anonymous compiler of the Orkneyinga Saga wrote that Thorfinn was the most powerful of all the earls of Orkney and that he ruled substantial territorites beyond the Northern Isles. A sizeable part of the latter saga's account concerns his wars with a "King of Scots" named Karl Hundason whose identity is uncertain. In his later years he went on a pilgrimage to Rome and he was instrumental in making Orkney and Shetland part of mainstream Christendom. On his death in the latter half of the 11th century he was followed as earl by his sons Paul and Erlend.

There are numerous problems associated with the chronology of Thorfinn's life and in identifying his relationships to the southern polities of the Kingdom of Alba (the precursor to modern Scotland) and the Kingdom of Moray. His diplomacy with the Norwegian court has also been interpreted in various ways. His life has been the subject of various works of historical fiction.

The sources for Thorfinn's life are almost exclusively Norse sagas, which were written down long after the time of the events in his life they record. The main sources are St Olaf's saga and the more detailed Orkneyinga Saga, which were first compiled in Iceland in the early 13th century. Much of the information the latter contains is "hard to corroborate" although it is a "generally credible" narrative in this context.

Thorfinn was the youngest of the five known sons of Earl Sigurd Hlodvirsson, but the only son of Sigurd's marriage to an unknown daughter of King Malcolm II (Máel Coluim mac Cináeda). His elder half-brothers Einar, Brusi and Sumarlidi survived to adulthood, while another brother called Hundi died young in Norway, a hostage at the court of King Olaf Trygvasson.

Earl Sigurd was killed at the Battle of Clontarf on 23 April 1014. Before setting out for Ireland, he had sent Thorfinn, then aged five, to be fostered by his maternal grandfather, the King of Scots. When the news of Sigurd's death came, Thorfinn's older half-brothers divided Orkney and Shetland between them. King Máel Coluim set Thorfinn up as ruler of Caithness and Sutherland with Scots advisors to rule for him. Earl Sigurd had also been a ruler of the Suðreyar but these holdings appear to have escaped control of the earls of Orkney at the time of his death or shortly thereafter.

The Orkneyinga saga dates Thorfinn's death no more precisely than placing it "towards the end" of Harald Sigurdsson's reign, who died at the battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066. Thorfinn was buried at the Christ Church he himself had built. He is known to history as "Thorfinn the Mighty", and at his height of power, he controlled all of Orkney and Shetland, the Hebrides, Caithness and Sutherland, and his influence extended over much of the north of Scotland. The saga also makes a grander and more unlikely claim - that he controlled a total of seven earldoms in Scotland.

He was followed as earl by his sons Paul and Erlend and his widow Ingibiorg the "Earls' Mother" later married Malcolm Canmore, King of Scots. St Olaf's saga states that following Thorfinn's decease "many of the dominions that the earl had laid under himself were lost".
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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