House Jelling

The house Jelling , named after the archaeological sites in Jelling is the family of King Gorm the Old , who (perhaps wrongly) as Denmark's realm unifier applies. His son Harald Blauzahn also became King of Norway , the grandson Sven Gabelbart also conquered large parts of England, but the best known is the great-grandson Knut the Great , whose territory is known as the North Sea Empire . With Knut's sons who remained without heirs, the male line of the family died out. The Danish heritage was taken over by the Estridsson house .

Tribe list

Gorm the Old , † before 950, 935 King of Denmark; ⚭ Thyra , † probably 935
1. Knut Danaast , † probably murdered in 940
  1. Gold-Harald, † murdered probably 970
2. Harald Blauzahn , attested in 936, † November 1 before 988, King of Denmark and 970 King of Norway ; ⚭ (1) Gunhild, probably attested in 965; ⚭ (2) Tove , probably attested in 970, probably daughter of the Wenden prince Mistiwoj ( Nakoniden )
  1. ? Hakon, in Northumbria
  2. Son , called "Hiring"
  3. Sven Gabelbart ( Tveskaeg ), † February 3, 1014, probably King of Denmark in 986, probably King of Norway in 1002, King of England in 1013 ; ⚭ Gunhild of Poland , † after 1014, widow of Erik Segersäll , King of Sweden , daughter of Duke Miecislaw I ( Piast )
    1. Gyda; ⚭ around 996 Erik Håkonsson Jarl, † probably 1024, 1000/15 imperial administrator of Norway
    2. Knut the Great , * probably 995, † November 12, 1035, King of England in 1016, King of Denmark in 1018, King of Norway in 1028; ⚭ July 1017 Emma of Normandy , † March 6, 1052, daughter of Duke Richard I ( Rolloniden ) and widow of King Æthelred of England ( House of Wessex )
      1. (illegitimate, mother: Ælfgifu Ælfhelmsdaughter (Alfiva), † after 1040) Sven Alfivason , † probably 1036, 1030/35 King of Norway
      2. (illegitimate, mother: Ælfgifu Ælfhelmsdaughter (Alfiva), † after 1040) Harald Hasenfuss , † March 17, 1040, 1035 King of England
      3. Hardiknut , † June 8, 1042, probably King of Denmark in 1028, King of England in 1040
      4. Gunhild (Kunigunde) , † July 18, 1038, buried in Limburg Abbey ; ⚭ June 1036, probably on the 29th, Heinrich III. , 1039 German king, 1046 Roman emperor, † October 5, 1056 ( Salier )
        Beatrix , * 1037 † July 13, 1061, abbess of Quedlinburg and Gandersheim
    3. Harald , † probably 1018, King of Denmark in 1014
    4. Estrid , attested in 1020, † May 9 ...; ⚭ (1) 1017 Richard II , Duke of Normandy , † August 28, 1027, repudiated ( Rollonids ); ⚭ (2) Ulf Jarl , † probably murdered in 1026, Earl in England, Imperial Administrator of Denmark ( House Estridsson )
  4. Gunhild, † murdered November 13, 1002; ⚭ Pallig, Ealdorman in Devonshire , † murdered November 13, 1002, both victims of the St. Brice's Day massacre
  5. ? Tyra Haraldsdatter , † September 18, probably 1000; ⚭ (1) Björn the Strong of Sweden , X probably 985 ( Ynglinger ); ⚭ (2) Burislav Prince of Wends , attested in 972, divorced; ⚭ (3) 998 Olaf Tryggvason , King of Norway, X September 9, probably 1000 ( Ynglinge )
3. ? Gunhild , † after 970; ⚭ Erik Blutaxt , † murdered 954, 930/935 King of Norway, then King of Jórvík ( Ynglinge )
4. ? Toke Gormsson , X probably 985
  1. Asbjörn Tokesen, X probably 985
  2. Odinkar (Deocarus = Gottlieb)

literature

Detlev Schwennicke : European Family Tables , Volume II, 1984, Plate 97

Remarks

↑ "Anglia, ut supra diximus et in gestis Anglorum scribitur, post mortem Gudredi a filiis eius Analaph, Sigtrih et Reginold, per annos fere C [entum] permansit in ditione Danorum. Tunc vero Haroldus, Hiring filium cum exercitu misit in Angliam. Qui , subacta insula, tandem proditus et occisus est a northern Umbris. " (Adam von Bremen, Hamburgische Kirchengeschichte, Liber II, Cap. XXV, MGH SS rer Germ. 2, p. 84) “Anglia, as we said above and as it appears in the Gesta Anglorum, remained under the control of the Danes after Gudred's death for nearly 100 years from the time of his sons, Analaph (Aulaf), Sigtrih (Sigeric) and Reginold. But then Harald sent his son Hiring to England with an army. When the latter had subjugated the island, he was betrayed and killed by the northern Umbrians. ”At the beginning of the chapter there is talk of“ Haroldus rex Danorum ”, ie Harald Blue Tooth.
↑ s. WP article on Toke Gormsson

[1] "Anglia, ut supra diximus et in gestis Anglorum scribitur, post mortem Gudredi a filiis eius Analaph, Sigtrih et Reginold, per annos fere C [entum] permansit in ditione Danorum. Tunc vero Haroldus, Hiring filium cum exercitu misit in Angliam. Qui , subacta insula, tandem proditus et occisus est a northern Umbris. " (Adam von Bremen, Hamburgische Kirchengeschichte, Liber II, Cap. XXV, MGH SS rer Germ. 2, p. 84) “Anglia, as we said above and as it appears in the Gesta Anglorum, remained under the control of the Danes after Gudred's death for nearly 100 years from the time of his sons, Analaph (Aulaf), Sigtrih (Sigeric) and Reginold. But then Harald sent his son Hiring to England with an army. When the latter had subjugated the island, he was betrayed and killed by the northern Umbrians. ”At the beginning of the chapter there is talk of“ Haroldus rex Danorum ”, ie Harald Blue Tooth.

[2] s. WP article on Toke Gormsson