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Personal data Olaf II van Zweden 

• Alternative name: Schatkoning
• He was born about 985.
• Title: koning, van Zweden
• He died about 1022.
• A child of Erik VI Segersäll van Zweden and Sigrid van Polen

Household of Olaf II van Zweden

(1) He is married to Estrid van Mecklenburg.

They got married.

Child(ren):

1. Ingigerd van Zweden  1003-± 1050 

(2) He is married to Edla Nn.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Astrid Olofsdottir   

Notes about Olaf II van Zweden

OLOF, son of ERIK "Segersäll/the Victorious" King of Sweden & his [second] wife Sigrid ["Storråda/the Haughty"] of Poland ([985/86?]-[1022]). Adam of Bremen names Olav as son of King Erik & his (unnamed) wife who later married Svend King of Denmark[56]. His date of birth is suggested based on the likely date of his parents’ marriage, after his father’s accession (see above). The question of Olof’s age is confused by the two apparently contradictory texts of Adam of Bremen and Saxo Grammaticus, quoted below, which record Olof’s invasion of Denmark. Snorre names "Olaf the Swede" as the son of "the Swedish king, Eirik the Victorious" and his wife Sigrid[57]. He succeeded as OLOF I "Skotkonung/under-King" King of Sweden. Adam of Bremen records that Olof King of Sweden (“Olaph sane, qui post obitum patris Herici regnum super Suevos accepit”) invaded Denmark, expelled “infelicem Suein a regno” and conquered the kingdom (“et ipse optinuit Daniam”), but that Olof restored Svend “in regnum suum, eo quod matrem suam habuerit"[58]. This passage in Adam is difficult to interpret. Considering the likely marriage date of Olof’s parents (after his father’s accession to the Swedish throne, see above), King Olof was probably under 10 years old when his father died. On the other hand, Adam’s report suggests that he was acting as an adult at the time. Another perspective is provided by Saxo Grammaticus (writing about a century after Adam) who records that, after his father's death, Olof returned to Sweden [from Denmark] with "his mother Syritha, and stayed there exercising his sovereignty under his mother's tutelage" (“Erici filius Olavus cum matre Syritha Suetiam repetivit, ibique degens regnum materno arbitrio subiectum habuit”)[59]. This passage suggests that Olof had not invaded Denmark at all, but had arrived there with his mother when she married King Svend and had returned to Sweden with her (presumably after Svend repudiated her, see Thietmar’s comment) when he was still a minor. He converted to Christianity and was baptised as "JACOBUS"[60].

m ([before 1000]) ESTRED [of the Obotrites], daughter of ---. Adam of Bremen records that "Olaph rex Sueonum" married "filiamque Sclavorum Estred nomine de Obodritis"[61]. Wigger dates the marriage to “before 1000”[62]. Hlawitschka suggests that, if Estred was actually “de Obodritis”, she must have been the daughter of “Obodritenfürsten Mistui (ca. 967-990/95?)” and sister of “des um 1022 verstorbenen Fürsten Mistislav (ca. 990/95-1018)”[63]. However, he highlights Lübke’s Regesten which suggests a connection with “Wagria” and that her father was “Sederich (Mstidrag?) einen Wagrierfürsten”[64], although Hlawitschka also notes Adam of Bremen’s description of Slavic peoples of the Baltic coast which suggests that Adam knew the distinction between the Obotrites and Wagrians ("Populi Sclavorum multi, quorum primi sunt ab occidente confines Transalbianis Waigri; eorum civitas Aldiburg maritima. Deinde secuntur Obodriti, qui nunc Reregi vocantur, et civitas eorum Magnopolis [Mecklenburg]"[65]). Lübke provides information about “Sederich”, “Mstivoj” and “Mstidrag” elsewhere[66]. The general problem of defining the different peoples in the southern Baltic coast, and their territorial jurisdictions, is discussed in the Introduction to the document MECKLENBURG (the leaders named by Hlawitschka have not been identified in that document).

Mistress (1): EDLA, daughter of ---, from Vinland. Snorre names "Edla, a daughter of an earl of Vindland" as the concubine of King Olof[67].

King Olof & his wife had two children:
INGIGERD Olafsdottir ([1000/03]-10 Feb 1050).
ANUND JAKOB (-[1052]).

King Olof had three illegitimate children by Mistress (1):
ASTRID.

Bronnen:

[56] Adami, Gesta Hammenburgensis Ecclesiæ Pontificum II.37, MGH SS VII, p. 319.

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

[58] Adami, Gesta Hammenburgensis Ecclesiæ Pontificum II.37, MGH SS VII, pp. 319-20.

[59] Saxo Grammaticus (Christiansen), 10, XI, p. 20, and Saxo (Holder), p. 337.

[60] Saxo Grammaticus (Christiansen), 10, XI, p. 22.

[61] Adami, Gesta Hammenburgensis Ecclesiæ Pontificum II.37, MGH SS VII, p. 319.

[62] Wigger, F. (1860) Mecklenburgische Annalen bis zum Jahre 1066 (Schwerin), pp. 53-4.

[63] Hlawitschka (2006), XXI, 22, p. 483.

[64] Hlawitschka (2006), XXI, 22, p. 483, citing Lübke, C. (1986) Regesten zur Geschichte der Slaven an Elbe und Oder (vom Jahr 900 an) (Digitale Ausgabe, 2018), Teil III, Regesten 983-1013, 344, 344a, pp. 183-4, available at <https://bibdorm.bsb-muenchen.de/api/v1/mf/pdf/BV045370824> (15 Feb 2021).

[65] Adami, Gesta Hammenburgensis Ecclesiæ Pontificum II.18, MGH SS VII, p. 311.

[66] Lübke (1985/2018), Teil II, Regesten 900-983, 169.13), p. 239, and (1986/2018), Teil III, Regesten 983-1013, 256, p. 66.

[67] Snorre, Saga of Olaf Haraldson Part III, 89.

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