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• Ook bekend als Harald /Halfdansson/, King of Haithabu & Jutland.
• Hij is geboren rond 0795 in Haithabu, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
• (Ruled ) in 812-813.Bron 1
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 0844 in Walcheren Island, Netherlands.Bron 3
• Alternatief: Hij is overleden rond 0845.Bron 2
• Alternatief: Hij is overleden voor 0852.Bron 1
• Een kind van Halfdan Haraldsson King of Haithabu
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 8 april 2023.

Gezin van Harald II Klak Halfdansson King of Denmark

Hij had een relatie met Sigrid Helgisdottir.

Kind(eren):

1. Godefrid King of Haithabu & Rustringen  ± 830-885 

Notities over Harald II Klak Halfdansson King of Denmark

Harald Klak. [Royal Families of Medieval Scandinavia]

Like that of Norway and Sweden, Denmark's early history is marked byinternal wars between various ruling houses. At times, more than one manclaimed the kingship. In the early 1820s, both Horik the son of Godfredand Harald Klak (a nephew of the former king Harald and brother of thedeceased Anulo and Reginfred) were calling themselves kings.

Horik Godfredsson had no wish to share the throne of Denmark, so heforced Harald Klak to flee for his life. Harald found refuge with Louisthe Pious in France. There, about 826, Harald heard the Christianmessage and was converted. He was baptized with much pomp in the royalpalace at Ingelheim, near Mainz, with Louis the Pious serving as hisgodfather. At the same time his wife, his son, and 400 of his men werebaptized.

After his baptism Harald prepared to return to Denmark to regain thethrone. In response to Harald's plea for missionaries, Louis the Pioussent a missionary named Ansgar with Harald. It was a dangerous andheroic mission. The Danes were not anxious to leave off their paganpractices. . . . After two years, the school folded and Harald Klak,hated by his people because he had become a Christian, once again losthis throne. Horik Godfredsson, a king completely opposed toChristianity, took his place.

The exiled Harald Klak, now a friend of the Franks, was given a fief inFrisia by Louis the Pious with the understanding that -- as a loyalvassal of the empire -- he would defend the Frisian coast against attacksfrom the North. Here Harald lived out the rest of his life, and there isevidence that he led attacks against the very Franks who had evangelizedand befriended him.

When he died about 845, various relatives of his were given highpositions in that part of the empire.

. . . In 834 the Danes stormed the Frisian trading center of Dorestad,looting and plundering to their hearts' content while the defenselessinhabitants watched in horror. From Dorestad, they followed the Rhinesouthward and raided other towns.

. . . Lothar, the rebellious son of Louis the Pious, may have actuallycooperated in the Danish raids in the late 830s, along with Louis' vassaland godson Harald Klak.

In 840 Louis the Pious died and his kingdom was fractured by theinevitable fratricidal wars that accompanied the Frankish inheritancesystem. The idea of primogeniture was unknown to the Franks, and so amonarch's heirs routinely fought each other for their father's lands andtitles.

Eventually Lothar obtained the title of emperor and a 200-mile strip ofland between the kingdoms of his brothers Charles the Bald and Louis theGerman. (In time this middle kingdom disappeared although the modernname "Lorraine" survives as a contraction of "Lotharingia.")

Lothar decided to reward his ally Harald Klak. The Annals of St. Bertinfor the year 841 state that Lothar gave the island of Walcheren (now inthe Netherlands) in fief to his ally Harald Klak, who had aided Lothar indoing "so much damage to Frisia and other coastal countries of theChristian world in order to harm his father." The Annals then expressthe view that the giving of this island to Harald was "a deed whichcertainly deserves every abhorrence."

[Royal Families of Medieval Scandinavia, pp. 80-82]

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The following is excerpted from a post by Stewart Baldwin, 18 Nov 1996:

From: Stewart Baldwin ((XXXXX@XXXX.XXX))
Subject: Danish kings, 8th & 9th centuries
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
Date: 1996/11/18

HARALD ii (d. 852?) and REGINFRID (d. 814), joint kings of Denmark,812-813. HARALD ii was also joint king with the sons of Godefrid 819-27,and count of Rustringen in Frisia, 826-. Brothers of Anulo, and"nepotes" of Harald i.

Harald ii and Reginfrid became joint kings in 812, following thecivil war, and requested that Charlemagne send them their brotherHemming, who was then a hostage [ARF]. In 813, peace was sworn again,and Hemming was returned to Denmark, but the Harald and Reginfrid werewith an army in Westarfolda [i.e., Vestfold] in the extreme northwest oftheir kingdom, where the people had refused to submit to them. When theyreturned "after conquering the Britons" [That's what the translation ofthe chronicle says, but I assume it is a slip of the pen for Westarfolda,as Britain had been mentioned in the previous sentence that described thelocation of Westarfolda.], the sons of Godefrid gathered an army, anddrove Harald and Reginfrid out of Denmark, assisted by Danish nobles whohad been in exile with the Swedes. [This very tantalizing chronicleentry, the earliest contemporary reference to Vestfold, has been thebasis of numerous theories. Since Harald and Reginfrid appear as enemiesof the men of Vestfold and as enemies of the sons of Godefrid, it hasbeen assumed by some that the sons of Godefrid were based in Vestfold,which has in turn led to the suggested identification of Godefrid and theYngling king Gudrod, despite the apparent chronological difficulties.] In814, Reginfrid was killed when he and Harald attempted to regain thekingdom, and Harald sought the help of the new emperor Louis I. In 819,Harald allied himself with two of the sons of Godefrid to drive out theother two, and entered into a joint ruling arrangement which lasted until827, when the sons of Godefrid drove him out. In 826, he had beenbaptized at St. Albans in Mainz, and was given the county of Rustringenin Frisia. In 841, Harald was granted Walcheran by the emperor Lothar[AB]. His death is mentioned in the Annals of Fulda under the year 852,but in wording which does not make it clear whether his death was in thatyear or at some time previous.

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