Siegfried (Guînes)

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Siegfried the Dane (Latin: Sifridus Dacus ) is considered to be the progenitor of the Guînes family in the 10th century.

Siegfried's existence is obscure because he is not mentioned in any contemporary chronicles. He is mentioned for the first time and once at the beginning of the 13th century in the chronicle of the Counts of Guînes des Lambert von Ardres as the progenitor of the Count's House. Accordingly, he was a Norman warrior who came from a Danish royal family and who seduced a daughter of Count Arnulf I of Flanders named Elftrude, whose existence is just as uncertain. Their son was posthumously born Ardolf , who became the first Count of Guînes.

source

  • Lamberti Ardensis historia comitum Ghisnensium , ed. by J. Heller in MGH SS 24 (1879), p. 568

literature

  • Leah Shopkow: The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres , in: The Middle Ages series (2007)
personal data
SURNAME Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sifridus Dacus; Siegfried the Dane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norman, lord of Guînes
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century
DATE OF DEATH 10th century