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Personal data Gudröd Bjornsson 

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Household of Gudröd Bjornsson

He is married to Cecilia Nn.

They got married


Child(ren):

  1. Harald Haraldson  947-995 


Notes about Gudröd Bjornsson

GUDRÖD Bjornsson (-murdered Tunsberg [960/65]). The Historia Norwegie names "Gudrodus" as son of "Berno…filius Harald Comati"[236]. Snorre names Gudröd as the son of Björn & his wife, recording in a later passage that he was brought up by his paternal uncle Olav after his father was killed[237]. Along with his cousin Tryggve, he supported his uncle Haakon after the latter's return to Norway and was installed as King in Vestfold 935, ruling through an appointee as he was "in the years of childhood"[238]. He was murdered by King Harald II[239].

m CECILIA, daughter of ---. Snorre records that Gudröd made "a good and suitable marriage" and had by his (unnamed) wife “a son called Harald”[240]. The primary source which confirms her marriage has not yet been identified.

Gudröd Bjornsson had one child:
HARALD "Grenske" ([947]-murdered 995)

Bronnen:

[236] Historia Norwegie XV, p. 86.

[237] Snorre, Harald Harfager's Saga, 38 and 44.

[238] Snorre, Haakon the Good's Saga, 2.

[239] Snorre, Saga of King Harald Grafeld and of Earl Haakon son of Sigurd, 10.

[240] Snorre, Saga of King Harald Grafeld and of Earl Haakon son of Sigurd, 11.

https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORWAY.htm#_ftnref236

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