Ancestral Trails 2016 » SIWARD OF NORTHUMBRIA (± 980-1055)

Données personnelles SIWARD OF NORTHUMBRIA 

• Il est né environ 980 dans Denmark.
• Titre: 1st Earl of Northumbria 1041-1055
• Titre: Earl of Yorvik 1035-1055
• (Relationship) : 26th Great Grandfather.
• Il est décédé le 26 mars 1055 dans York, Ainsty, Yorkshire.

  Dysentery

• Il est enterré en l'an 1055 dans Galmanho Monastery, York.
• Un enfant de BJORN BEARSSON

Famille de SIWARD OF NORTHUMBRIA

Il avait une relation avec AELFLAED OF BERNICIA NORTHUMBRIA.

Enfant(s):

1. WALTHEOF II OF NORTHUMBRIA  1048-1076 
2. SYBILLA FITZSIWARD OF NORTHUMBRIA  1010-1040 
3. Osbern of NORTHUMBRIA  

Notes par SIWARD OF NORTHUMBRIA

Called Sigurd or Siward, he was addressed as Earl in a charter of King Edward, dated probably 1050 to 1052. His son and heir, Waltheof, being too young at his father's death in 1055, the earldoms of Northampton and Northumberland were bestowed on Tostig, a favorite of the King.
Source: www.geneajourney.com

Siward was probably of Scandinavian origin, perhaps a relative of Earl Ulf, and emerged as a powerful regional strongman in England during the reign of Cnut ("Canute the Great", 1016-1035). Cnut was a Scandinavian ruler who conquered England in the 1010s, and Siward was one of the many Scandinavians who came to England in the aftermath of that conquest. Siward subsequently rose to become sub-ruler of most of northern England. From 1033 at the latest Siward was in control of southern Northumbria, that is, present-day Yorkshire, governing as earl on Cnut's behalf.

He entrenched his position in northern England by marrying Ælfflæd, the daughter of Ealdred, Earl of Bamburgh. After killing Ealdred's successor Eadulf in 1041, Siward gained control of all Northumbria. He exerted his power in support of Cnut's successors, kings Harthacnut and Edward, assisting them with vital military aid and counsel. He probably gained control of the middle shires of Northampton and Huntingdon by the 1050s, and there is some evidence that he spread Northumbrian control into Cumberland. In the early 1050s Earl Siward turned against the Scottish ruler Mac Bethad mac Findlaích ("Macbeth"). Despite the death of his son Osbjorn, Siward defeated Mac Bethad in battle in 1054. More than half a millennium later the Scotland adventure earned him a place in William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Siward died in 1055, leaving one son, Waltheof, who would eventually succeed to Northumbria. St Olaf's church in York and nearby Heslington Hill are associated with Siward.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siward,_Earl_of_Northumbria

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