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Personal data Erlend Thorfinnsson , Earl of Caithness & Orkney 

• Also known as 21st Jarl of /Orkney/, Erlend II Thorfinnsson.
• He was born about 1040 in Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland.
• He died in the year 1099 in Nidaros, Trondheim, Norway (in captivity).Source 3
• A child of Thorfinn Sigurdsson and Ingibiorg Finnsdottir
• This information was last updated on July 14, 2008.

Household of Erlend Thorfinnsson , Earl of Caithness & Orkney

He is married to Thora Somerledsdottir.

They got married at 1st husband.Source 4

Child(ren):

1. Gunhhild of Orkney  ± 1075-????
2. St. Magnus I Erlendsson  ± 1077-1117

Notes about Erlend Thorfinnsson , Earl of Caithness & Orkney

Erlend, Jarl of Orkney and apparently Jt Earl of Caithness. [Burke'sPeerage]

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EARLDOM of CAITHNESS (II) 1056? (both Paul & Erlend, co-Earls)

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

Paul I and Erlend II, sons of Thorfinn II, joint Jarls of Orkney andEarls of Caithness, (?) 1057 or (?) 1065-1098, when they were deposed andimprisoned by King Magnus Barelegs. "They were tall men and fair, andboth more after their mother’s side. They were men wise and meek." In thesummer of 1066 King Harald Hardradi arrived with a fleet from Norway andraised men in Orkney for his invasion of England. He started south withone or both Jarls. He or they stayed with the ships during the battle ofStamford Bridge (25 Sep. 1066) and survived to return to Orkney withHardradi’s second son, Olaf Kyrri (King of Norway 1067-1093), theirsecond cousin, who stayed with them for the winter. The two Jarls ruledtheir Earldoms peacefully in "agreement great and good", until their sonsgrew up and caused much trouble by their quarrels. In the spring of 1098King Magnus III Barelegs (1093-1103), son of King Olaf III Kyrri, camewith a large fleet to Orkney and deposed the two Jarls in order to giveOrkney to his son Sigurd (afterwards King Sigurd Jorsalafari theCrusader) (1103/1122-1130), whom he made King of Orkney and the Isles(the Nordreys and Sudreys). They both died in captivity, Paul at Bergenand Erlend at Nidaros. The news of this was brought to King MagnusBarelegs when he reached Orkney 1099. Jarl Paul m. a dau, of HakonIvarsson (great-grandson through his grandmother of Jarl Hakon the Great,ruler of Norway 976-995), Captain of the Coast Defence in Denmark underKing Sweyn Estrithsson (circa 1048-1050) and Jarl of the Uplands inNorway under King Harald Hardradi (circa 1054-1064), by Ragnhild (m.1050), da, of Magnus I the Good, King of Norway (1036-1047). He had issueHakon, afterwards Jarl, and four daughters.

Jarl Erlend m. Thora, dau. of Somerled Uspaksson, a descendant on thedistaff side of Hrollaug, the brother of Jarl Turf-Einar (see ante, p. 4,note "h"), and had issue Erling, and Magnus, afterwards Jarl, and twodaughters. Thora m., 2ndly, Sigurd of Paplay. [Complete Peerage,X:Appendix A:14-6]

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