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Personal data Erik "Bloodaxe" King of Northumberland and (Erik "Bloodaxe" King of Northumberland and) Norway zzz 

Sources 1, 2, 3

Household of Erik "Bloodaxe" King of Northumberland and (Erik "Bloodaxe" King of Northumberland and) Norway zzz

He is married to Gunnhild Gormsdottir of Denmark.

They got married about 0920.


Child(ren):

  2. Ragnhild Eriksdottir  ± 928-????


Notes about Erik "Bloodaxe" King of Northumberland and (Erik "Bloodaxe" King of Northumberland and) Norway zzz

NORSE PREDECESSORS of the EARLS of ORKNEY - subject to King of Norway until after 1379

Eric Bloodaxe, b. circa 885, son of King Harald I Haarfagri (b. 854, d.934), on the abdication of his father (932) became Over-King of Norway,but was so unpopular that when his young half-brother Hakon the Good (b.919) returned in 936 from England, he was unable to hold Norway against him and fled, in 937, to Orkney. Here he seems to have established himself as King and "because he had little land" took to piracy. In 939 King Athelstan made him Vassal King of Northumbria; but as Athelstan’s brother and successor, King Edmund I the Elder (940-946), was hostile, Eric withdrew from York in 940 and "went into western piracy,"again making Orkney his base. In Northumbria a Danish revolt led to the recall of King Eric in 948, but he was driven out in 949 by Anlaf or Olaf Cuaran, the King of Dublin, The Northumbrian Danes deposed King Anlaf in 952 and Eric became for the third time King of Northumbria. In 954 Northumbrians rose against King Eric, who was defeated and killed, with Arnkel and Erlend of Orkney, at Stainmore in Westmorland, by Maccus, son of Harald Sihtricsson, King of Limerick (896-922), who then made himself King of Man (954-976). On King Eric’s death his widow Gunnhild and her sons returned to Orkney, where Thorfinn was then sole Jarl, and remained there until they went to Denmark in the spring of 955. King Eric Bloodaxem. Gunnhild, dau. either of Gorm the Old, King of Denmark (899-936), or of Azur Tot or Lafskeg of Halogaland, and had issue 8 sons and 1daughter. [Complete Peerage, X:Appendix A:5]

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Erik "Bloodaxe" King of Northumberland and Norway

Halfdan "The Black" King of Vestfold
± 820-± 863
Ragnhild Sigurdsdottir
± 830-????

Erik "Bloodaxe" King of Northumberland and Norway
± 885-954

± 920

Gunnhild Gormsdottir of Denmark
± 910-> 970

Harald II "Graypelt" King of Norway
± 935-± 970
Ragnhild Eriksdottir
± 928-????

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Sources

  1. Encyclopedia Britannica, Treatise on, United Kingdom, Ancestry of the British Royal House
  2. Royal Families of Medieval Scandinavia, Flanders, and Kiev, by Rupert Alen & Anna Dahlquist, 1997, King's River Publ., 88
  3. Royal Families of Medieval Scandinavia, Flanders, and Kiev, by Rupert Alen & Anna Dahlquist, 1997, King's River Publ., 88
  4. Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Lt, X:A:5
  5. Encyclopedia Britannica, Treatise on, Eadred, also UK - Royal Ancestry chart

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