Richard and Charlotte Allen Cosby Ancestry » Swietoslava Sigrid "The Proud" or "Haughty" of Denmark (± 970-1014)

Personal data Swietoslava Sigrid "The Proud" or "Haughty" of Denmark 

Sources 1, 2, 3
  • Alternative names: Sigrid 'The Haughty' Storrada, Sigrid Storrada, Sigrid Toste, Sigrid "The Haughty" Storrada
  • She was born about 970 in Poznan, Lubelskie, Poland.
  • Alternative: She was born about 952 in Vastergotland, Sweden.Source 4
  • Alternative: She was born in the year 950.
  • She died on February 2, 1014 in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England.
  • Alternative: She died after February 2, 1014 in Sweden.
  • A child of Skogult-Toste
  • A child of I Mieszko and Dubrawka
  • A child of Skoglar Tosti and Dubrawka

Household of Swietoslava Sigrid "The Proud" or "Haughty" of Denmark

(1) She has/had a relationship with Erik Segersall.


Child(ren):

  1. Olaf Skotkonung  984-1022 


(2) She is married to Erik IV "Victorious" Bjornsson King of Sweden.

They got married at 1st wife-divorced after 985.Source 3


Child(ren):



(3) She is married to Sveyn "Forkbeard" Hakonsson Ladij de Crepon.

They got married at Jelling, Vejle, Denmark.


Child(ren):

  1. Princess of Denmark Astrid  ± 990-± 1024


Notes about Swietoslava Sigrid "The Proud" or "Haughty" of Denmark

c995-Killed Harald "The Greenlander" King of Norway. [Ancestral Roots]ik and married Sven Forkbeard, following in Sigrid's footsteps, but Sigrid "divorced" (Viking style) Erik.s said to have been Sigrid Storrada ("great ruler'), the daughter of Skoglar Toste, a famous Viking from Vastergotland. According to Snorri, she was mother of Erik's son Olof.g to the ancient tales, Erik fought a great battle against his still-rebellious nephew Stybjorn on the great plains of Fyrisvall, near Uppsala. . . .igrid, due to her imperious temperament. After a while they went their separate ways. She retired to her estates in Vastergotland, where we are told that she ruled in great splendor and refused many suitors who were hungry for both her beauty and her lands. Among others, she is said to have refused Harald Granske of Norway and King Vifavald of Russia (a petty king of whom we know nothing further). Sigrid has been called "the Haughty" and she seems to have truly earned this surname. [Royal Families of Medieval Scandinavia, Flanders, & Kiev]vorced" Erik a short while after the battle in 985.

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Sources

  1. Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree
    http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=28696621&pid=126
  2. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, 241-5
    Sigrid Storrada, dau of Skoglar-Tosti
  3. Royal Families of Medieval Scandinavia, Flanders, and Kiev, by Rupert Alen & Anna Dahlquist, 1997, King's River Publ, 178
  4. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, 243a-20


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