Olaf the Mighty, Helgi Halfdansson

Records show Helgi as the father (Helgi Halfdansson) and Olaf as the mother and vice versa. Helgi is most times shown to be a male name, and honestly, the vision of a short but heavily muscles woman wearing a Viking hat and a terribly fierce expression is too much to resist, so I left it as is.


Sveyn I Forkbeard Haraldsson

Became king in Jómsborg after the death of his father, his doing.

Proclaimed king of Norway after the battle of Svolder (Svöld) in 1000

First king to mint coins


 Regnier III Count of Hainault

Duke of Upper Lorraine. Captured at war with Emperor Otto the Great and died in exile


Thomas Hale

A Thomas Hale appears on the list of freemen of Mass Bay, Freeman - May 14, 1634 - first grouping (Winthrop pages)


Ann Hammond

Per Roy Birch:
Ref: United Genealogist , Orem, Utah : Has Alt Death : 1 Sep. 1685 Barnstable, Mass. and Marr. Date John Lathrop, 14 Jun 1635, Scituate, Plymouth, Mass.

"Mr. John Lothrop, died 8th nov. 1653. Married, first ___: she died 1633. Second, Wid. Ann Hammond, Feb 17, 1636-7. 10

He (John Lothrop) m a second wife, whose name is not in our records, who came here with him, joined the chh. June 14, 1635, and survived him. 2

Ref; Register Report- Hammond, www://genweb.net/~samcasey/hammond.html#P5038, Has Reference to Marriage dates to Timothy Hawkins , and Eliis Barron, and the Children of Hawkins.

This Info so far seems to be correct, conflict with Lathrop info -- More research needed. The Baptized dates of Anna's children by John are correct dates conflict with birth dates of children by Timothy Hawkins.Ref; FTM, Genealogy Library; Bullard and Allied Families Ref; "Lathrop Family Memior" by Julia M. Huntington - Ref; To possibly a daughter of William Hammond, of Watertown.


Sargeant William Harlowe

Declared freeman in New Plymouth 1643
Declared freeman in New Plymouth 1684
Declared freeman in New Plymouth 1689
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On 15 Jul 1658 Mary (Faunce) married Sergeant William Harlow, in Plymouth, MA. Born ca 1624 in prob. England. William died on 25 Aug 1691 in Plymouth, MA. Occupation: cooper. Sources: 5  23

HARLOW, WILLIAM - Savage and Pope were wrong in their treatment of William Harlow and were corrected by George Ernest Bowman, "Sergeant William Harlow of Plymouth and William Harlow of Sandwich Were Not the Same Person," MD 12:193. The William Harlow of Plymouth town died 25 August 1691 in his sixty-seventh year (Ply. Town Recs, 1:202; Ply, Ch. Recs. 1:271), and thus was bom ca. 1624. He was on the 1643 ATBA for Plymouth; he was a grandjuror on 7 June 1653 (PCR 3:32); and he became a freeman on 6 June 1654 (PCR 3:48). In 1656 he was a highway surveyor for Plymouth, and in 1661 he was a constable for Plymouth (PCR 3:100, 215).

He was among those granted land on 3 June 1662 at Taunton (PCR 4:20). By the late 1660s he was known as Sergeant Harlow. On 1 June 1669 Sgt. William Harlow was a selectman for Plymouth (PCR 5:19), and on 15 September 1673 he became a deputy (PCR 5:135).

He married (1) on 20 December 1649 Rebecca Bartlett, daughter Of Robert Bartlett and his wife Mary Warren (daughter of Richard Warren); (2) 15 July 1658 Mary Faunce, daughter of John Faunce; and (3) 25 January 1665/66 Mary Shelley (PCR 8:8, 21, 26). In the settlement of his estate, dated 9 September 1691, his widow is Mary Harlow, and his surviving children are sons Samuel, William, Nathaniel, and Benjamin, and seven unnamed daughters (MD 12:195). On 12 April 1667 Sgt. William Harlow made an agreement with Secretary Nathaniel Morton and his wife Lydia to put out his son Nathaniel Harlow, near two and one-half years old, with the Mortons until he was twenty-one (PCR 5:10). The agreement between Harlow and Morton showed that the Mortons "desired" the child, and it provided that in case Nathaniel Morton died before the child was seven years old, William Harlow would pay 10 pounds to Lydia Morton to help in the maintenance of the child. Nathaniel Morton in his 1685 will gave a young cow and calf to his kinsman Nathaniel Harlow, son of William, and requested his loving kinsman Sgt. William Harlow to be a supervisor of his will (Ply. Colony LR 5:350). The kinship between Harlow and Morton would have been through Harlow's second wife, Mary Faunce, whose mother, Patience Morton, was a sister of Nathaniel Morton, and thus Nathaniel Harlow would have been Nathaniel Morton's nephew. William Harlow's children by his first wife were William, Samuel, Rebecca, and William; by his second wife, Mary, Repentance, John, and Nathaniel; and by his third wife Hannah, Bathsheba, Joanna, Mehitabel, Judith, and Benjamin (MD 12:195). An early article, Theodore P. Adams, "The Harlow Family," NEHGR 14:227, is undocumented and has known errors. The house of William Harlow is still standing in Plymouth and may be visited during the summer; it is said to contain original beams from Plymouth's first meetinghouse-fort, and is known as the "Harlow Old Fort House."
Source: 1

Mayflower Descendant Legacy CD-ROM, Search & Research Pub. Co. Wheat Ridge CO 80033: Sergeant William Harlow of Plymouth had three wives and fourteen children. His first wife was Rebecca Bartlett3, daughter of Robert Bartlett and Mary Warren, and granddaughter of Richard1 Warren of the Mayflower. William Harlow and Rebecca Bartlett were married at Plymouth, 20 December, 1649, had four children born at Plymouth: William, born 5 October, 1650, died 26 October, 1650; Samuel, born 27 January, 1652; Rebecca, born 12 June, 1655; William born 2 June 1657. The date of Rebecca (Bartlett) Harlow's death is unknown, but it must have been between 2 June, 1657, the birth of her last child and 15 July, 1658, when her husband married again. /P/ William Harlow married, second, Mary Faunce, at Plymouth, on 15 July, 1658, and their children, born at Plymouth, were: Mary, born 19 May,1659; Repentance, born 22 November, 1660; John, born 19 October, 1662, and died without issue, before 18 September 1691; Nathaniel, born 30 September 1664; Mary (Faunce) Harlow died at Plymouth, 4 October, 1664. /P/ William Harlow married, third, on 25 January, 1665, Mary Shelley. Their children, all born at Plymouth, were: Hannah, born 28 October, 1666, and died unmarried, at Plymouth, 27 June, 1689; Bathshua, born 21 April, 1667; Joanna, born 24 March, 1669; Mehitable, born 4 October, 1672; Judith born 2 April 1676; Benjamin, whose birth is not recorded, but is proved by the settlement of his father's estate.

Gen Register of Plymouth Families pages 124-9: Harlow, William, appeared a young man in Lynn in 1637. He removed to Sandwich and then to Plymouth, where he m. 1649, Rebecca d of Robert Bartlett. His children were William 1650; Samuel 1652; Rebecca 1655; William again 1657. He m 2d Mary d of John Faunce 1658 & had Mary 1659 m Samuel Durham; Repentance 1660; John 1662; Benjamin; Nathaniel 1664. He m 3rd 1665 Mary d of Robert Shelley of Scituate & had Hannah 1666; Bathsheba 1667 m Richard Sears of Yarmouth 1696; Joanna 1669; Mehitabel 1672; Judith 1676 m (1) Joseph Church (2) Stephen Barnaby. Nathaniel m Abigail Burt; Samuel m Priscilla __ & Hannah __. William son of 1st Wlm m Lydia d of Thomas Cushman & had Elizabeth 1683 m Thomas Doty; Thomas 1686 m Jedidah Churchill; Robert; Isaac; Lydia m Barnabas Churchill; Mary; Rebecca m Jabez Holmes; and William. Robert m Susanna d of John Cole of Plympton. William son of 2nd Wlm married Joanna Jackson.

Pioneers of MA pg 213: Harlow, William, cooper, Sandwich, prop. frm. 3/5/1638-9; frm. 6/6/1654, propr., Rem. to Plymouth. Sergeant. He m. 12/20/1649, Rebecca Bartlett; ch. William b and d. 1650; Samuel b 1/27/1652; Rebecca b. 6/12/1655; William b. 6/2/1657. He m. 2, 7/15/1658 Mary Faunce; ch. Mary b. 19 (..) 1659; Repentance b. 11/22/1660; John b. 10/19/1662; Nathaniel b. 9/30/1664. His wife Mary d. 10/4/1664; he m. 1/20/1665 Mary Shelley; ch. Hannah b. 10/28/1666; Bathshua b. 4/21/1667; Joanna b. 3/24/1669; Mehitabel b. 10/4/1672; Judith b. 8/2/1676. /P/ His est. settled 9/18/1691; division made to four sons, Samuel, William, Nathaniel and Benjamin, and to his seven daughters not names. The widow made oath to the inv. at home, on account of her weakness.

Note: Conflicting info on his son, William. A Joanna, wife of William was admitted to the Plymouth Church Records in 1707.

Married Mary Shelley 25 Jan 1665
Declared freeman of Sandwich 1644
per Plymouth County Records


Matthew Hawke

The third town clerk of Hingham, Massachusetts Matthew Hawke. Born in 1610 in England. Matthew died on 11 Dec 1684 in Hingham, MA. Source 17

"Matthew, from Cambridge, Eng., embarked at London with his w. Margaret and servant John Fearing in the ship Diligent of Ipswich, for New Eng., and arrived on the 10th of Aug. 1638. Mrs. Margaret Hawke d. at Hing. 18 March, 1683-84. Matthew d. 11 Dec. 1684, aet., as his gravestone says, 74yrs. Will made Sept. 24 1684. Freeman May 18, 1642; was the third town clerk of Hingl; selectman 1663; also school-master 1679-1683. Resided on Main Street, Hingham Centre." Source 17

Matthew married Margaret Nelson. Margaret died on 18 Mar 1684 in Hingham, MA. Source 17

See NEHGR 143:139.

They had the following children all born Hingham, Plymouth Co., Mass

Elizabeth (4 JUL 1639-1713)
Sarah (1 AUG 1641-1679)
Bethia (21 JAN 1643-)
Mary (2 AUG 1646-1714)
James (27 MAY 1649-1715)
Deborah (22 MAR 1652-1711)
Hannah (22 JUL 1655-1737)

3rd Town Clerk of Hingham MA. Matthew Hawke came to America from London in the ship 'Diligent' of Ipswich, arriving in America on 10 Aug 1638 with his wife Margaret and 'servant' John Fearing. He settled in Hingham, MA, where he was a freeman 18 May 1642 and served at various times as selectman, town clerk and schoolmaster. The children of Matthew and Margaret Hawke were all baptized at Hingham, MA.

Doug Bingham's page at http://www.pa.uky.edu/%7Eshapere/dkbingham/


Ingjald Onundsson

Ingjald was abut six years old, and playing with Yngvar, the under king of Fjadryndaland's son, Alf at a mid-winter gathering (Samhain?) at Uppsala. Another boy, Gautvid, noticed Ingjald was not as strong or manly as Alf, and brought it to the attention of his father, Svipdag the Blind, the under king in Tiundaland and Ingjald's foster father. Svipdag prepared and gave to Ingjald a roasted heart of wolf. From then on, Ingjald was not only stronger, he was also mean and ferocious with a nasty attitude.

At the death of his father, Ingjald prepared a great feast to properly inherit his father's kingdom. He built a new hall called the Seven Kings Hall that had seven great chairs for the seven great divisional kings of Sweden: King Algaut, his father-in-law; Yngvar king of Fjadryndaland, with his two sons, Alf and Agnar; King Sporsnjall of Nerike; King Sighvat of Aattundaland and Granmar king of Sodermanland who did not attend.

The inheritance ceremony included that the son sit on a footstool at the feet of his father's throne. He takes the full bowl (Brage-beaker), makes his vows, drinks the bowl, and ascends to the throne. Ingjald did this, but declared he would increase his kingdom and pointed to the four corners with the bowl, and took the throne.

When everyone was drunk, Ingjald left with Svipdag's sons, Gautvid and Hylvid, set fire to the hall and killed anyone trying to leave, thusly taking all their dominions. When Granmar heard of this, he invited King Hjorvard, or Ylfing, to a feast. There was an issue with seating Vikings with Swedes (it was not viking custom for a man to "drink two and two with women", but in the end, Granmar's daughter, Hildigunn, became Hjorvard's wife, and helped Granmar defend his lands.

Hogne, who ruled over East Gotland, and his son Hildur, the father of Hilda, who was married to Granmar, joined forces with Granmar and Hjorvard in order to battle Ingjald. During the battle, the new under kings of Swede territories fled, leaving Ingjald open and exposed and wounded but he escaped. Svipdag the Blind and his sons, Gautvid and Hylvid died.

Ingjald, Granmar and Hjorvard finally agreed to peace as long as all three of them lived. The following autumn, Granmar and Hjorvard were a a feast at the island Sile when Ingjald appeared and burnt the building, killing all. Hogne continued to fight Ingjald to his end.

Ingjald's daughter, Aasa, an equally wicked person, was married to Gudrod, the king of Scania (Halfdan Eysteinsson?) and brought about her husband killing his brother, Halfdan, the father of Ivar Vidfavne, then brought about the murder of her husband and returned to her father.

Ivar Vidfavne gathered his army, went to Sweden where Ingjlad partied at Raening. Ingjald knew he could not win against Ivar, made a pact with Assa and set fire to their hall and themselves after getting totally drunk.

Ivar took control of Sweden, Denmark, much of Saxland, all of the east and a fifth of England.

Ingjald's wife, Gauthild, was the daughter of King Algaut , the son of Gautrek the Mild, and grandson of Gaut; and from them Gotland Gautland) took its name.
Heimskringla, Ynglinga Saga, Section 38 - 45

Ingjaldr hinn illráði or Ingjald illråde ("ill-ruler"), ca 640 - ca 650, was a legendary Swedish king of the House of Ynglings. He was the son of Anund. The Heimskringla relates that the viceroy of Fjädrundaland was named Ingvar and he had two sons, Alf and Agnar, who were of the same age as Ingjald. Svipdag the Blind was the viceroy of Tiundaland, the province of Uppsala where the Tings and the Yule (Midwinter) sacrifices were held (see the Temple at Uppsala).

One Midwinter, when Ingjald and Alf were six years old, many people had assembled at Uppsala for the sacrifices. Alf and Ingjald played, but Ingjald found that he was the weaker boy and became so angry that he almost started to cry. His foster-brother Gautvid led him to his foster-father Svigdag the Blind and told Svipdag about Ingjald's lack of manliness and strength. Svipdag said that it was a shame and the next day he gave Ingjald a roasted wolf's heart to eat. From that day, Ingjald became a very ferocious person and had a bad disposition.

Anund arranged a marriage for his son Ingjald with Gauthild, the daughter of the Geatish king Algaut, who was the son of Gautrek the Mild and the grand-son of Gaut. Gautrek consented as he believed that Ingjald had inherited his father's disposition. Gauthild's maternal grandfather was Olof the Sharp-sighted, the king of Nerike.

Ingjald had two children, a son Olof Trätälja and a daughter Åsa. His daughter had inherited her father's psychopathic disposition. She married king Gudröd of Skåne. Before she murdered her husband she managed to make him kill his own brother Halfdan the Kind, the father of the great Ivar Vidfamne.

In order to avenge his father, Ivar Vidfamne gathered a vast host and departed for Sweden, where he found Ingjald at Ræning. Ræning is probably Rällinge on the island of Fogdö in Lake Mälaren, or Rönö Hundred in Södermanland, mentioned on a runestone as "rauniki". When Ingjald and his daughter realized that it was futile to resist, they set the hall on fire and succumbed in the flames.

It is interesting to note that Ynglingatal does not appear to describe Ingjald as an evil king. It calls his life a brave life frœknu fjörvi.

Ingjald has often been seen as the one who unified Sweden.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingjald


Halfdan Olafsson

Halfdan was brought up in Soleyar, in the house of his mother's brother Solve, and was called Halfdan Hvitbein. Halfdan subdued a great part of Hedemark, Toten, Hadeland, and much of Westfold. He lived to be an old man, and died in his bed at Toten, from whence his body was transported to Westfold, and was buried under a mound at a place called Skaereid, at Skiringsale.
Heimskringla, Ynglinga Saga, Section 46, 49

Halfdan Hvitbeinn (Old Norse: Hálfdan hvítbeinn) was the son of Olof Trätälja of the House of Yngling according to Heimskringla. He lived around A.D. 710.

His father was sacrificed to Odin by the Swedish settlers in Värmland because of a famine. Some Swedes, however, realised that the famine was brought by overpopulation and not by the fact that the king had been neglecting his religious duties.

Consequently, they resolved to cross the Ed Forest and settle in Norway and happened to end up in Soleyar where they killed king Sölve and took Halfdan prisoner. The Swedish expatriates elected Halfdan king as he was the son of their old king, Olof. Halfdan subjugated all of Soleyar and took his army into Romerike and subjugated that province as well.

Halfdan was to become a great king, who married Åsa, the daughter of king Eystein, the ruler of Oppland and Hedmark. They had two sons, Öystein Halfdansson and Gudröd.

Halfdan conquered a large part of Hedemark, Toten, Hadeland and a part of Vestfold. When his brother Ingjald Olofsson died, he inherited Wermelandia. Halfdan died of old age in Toten and was transported to Vestfold where he was buried under a mound in Skiringssal.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfdan_Hvitbeinn"


Saint Olga
A Pskov woman of Varangian extraction who married the future Igor of Kiev, arguably in 903.

The Primary Chronicle gives 879 as her date of birth, which is rather unlikely, given the fact that her only son Svyatoslav was probably born some 65 years after that date. She spent great effort to avenge her husband's death at the hands of the Drevlians, and succeeded in slaughtering many of them and interring some in a ship burial, while still alive. After Igor's death, she ruled Kievan Rus as regent (945-c.963) for their son, Svyatoslav.

She was the first Rus ruler to convert to Christianity, either in 945 or in 957. The ceremonies of her formal reception in Constantinople were minutely described by Emperor Constantine VII in his book De Ceremoniis. After her baptism she took the Christian name Yelena, after the reigning Empress Helena Lekapena.

Olga was one of the first people of Rus to be proclaimed saint, for her efforts to spread the Christian religion in the country. However, she failed to convert Svyatoslav, and it was left to her grandson and pupil Vladimir I to make Christianity the lasting state religion.


Stryrbjorn Olafsson

Styrbjörn the Strong (Styrbjörn Sterki) or Styrbjörn the Swedish Champion (Styrbjörn svía kappi) (c. 960- c. 984) was according to the Norse sagas the son of the Swedish king Olof, and the nephew of Olof's co-ruler and successor Eric the Victorious. At his father's death, which probably took place in the 970s, Björn could claim greater right to the throne of Sweden than Eric's own soon to be born son.

The son of Olaf, King of Sweden. Styrbjörn was unusually big, strong and unruly (for a Viking) and although he was only a little boy he managed to kill a courtier who accidentally had hit him on the nose with a drinking horn.

When he was 12 years old he asked his uncle for his birthright, but when he was denied the co-rulership of Sweden he sulked for a long time on his father's mound.

When he was 16 the Ting decided that he was too unruly to be king of Sweden. Eric decided to make his own unborn child co-regent on the condition that it was a son. As a compensation his uncle Eric gave him 60 well-equipped longships whereupon the frustrated Styrbjörn took his sister Gyrid and left.

He ravaged the shores of the Baltic Sea and when he was twenty, he conquered the stronghold of Jomsborg from its founder Palnetoke, and became the ruler of the Jomsvikings.

After some time he allied with the Danish king Harold Bluetooth and married his sister Gyrid to him. Styrbjörn married Harold's daughter Tyra, whom he was given by Harold for conquering Jomsborg. (Styrbjörn had the son Torkel Styrbjörnsson with Tyra. Torkel had a daughter named Gytha Thorkelsdóttir, who married Godwin, Earl of Wessex and became the mother of Harold II of England).

Harold gave him even more warriors and now Styrbjörn was about to reclaim the throne of Sweden. He sailed with a huge force which included 200 Danish longships in addition to his own Jomsvikings. When they arrived at Föret (Old Norse: Fyris) in Uplandia he burnt the ships in order to force his men to fight to the end. The Danish force changed its mind and returned to Denmark.

Styrbjörn marched alone with his Jomsvikings to Gamla Uppsala. His uncle was, however, prepared and had sent for reinforcements in all directions.

During the first two days, the battle was even. In the evening, Eric went to the statue of Odin at the Temple at Uppsala where he sacrificed. He promised Odin that if he won the battle, he would belong to Odin and arrive at Valhalla in ten years from then.

The third day, Eric threw his spear over the enemy and said "I sacrifice you all to Odin". Styrbjörn and his sworn men stayed, and died.


Oldrich

Oldrich (also Ulrich or Oldrich) (ca. 975 – 11 November 1034) was the duke of Bohemia from 1012 to 1033 and briefly in 1034. He was a son of Boleslaus II and brother of Boleslaus III and Jaromir.

Oldrich deposed Jaromir on 12 April 1012 and recognised the suzerainty of the Holy Roman Emperor. Discarding his wife on the grounds that they were childless, Oldrich married a peasant woman known as Bozena. Oldrich and his son Bretislaus sought to win back Moravia from the Poles and in 1029 Bretislaus drove the Poles out of the eastern lands. Bretislaus' efforts in Slovakia against Hungary failed in 1030 because of the jealousy of the Emperor Conrad II. In the following year, Czech forces refused to take the field for the emperor.

In 1032, Oldrich was invited to the Diet of Merseburg and did not appear. His absence raised the ire of the emperor and Conrad, busy with events in Burgundy, charged his son Henry VI, Duke of Bavaria, with punishing the recalcitrant Bohemian. Oldrich made subjection and was deposed and sent to Bavaria. He was replaced by Jaromir, but he in turn was captured, blinded, and deposed by Oldrich, who seized power again and drove out Jaromir's son from Moravia. Oldrich died abruptly on 9 November 1034 and later examination of his skeleton reveal his skull to have suffered a fatal blow. Jaromir then renounced the throne in favour of Bretislaus.


Ingrid

Ingegerd Olofsdotter, born 1001 in Sigtuna, Sweden, was the daughter of Swedish King Olof Skötkonung. She was engaged to be married to Norwegian King Olaf II, but when Sweden and Norway got into a feud, Swedish King Olof Skötkonung wouldn't allow for the marriage to happen.

Instead, her father quickly arranged with a marriage to the powerful Yaroslav I the Wise of Novgorod. Once in Russia, her name was changed to the Greek Irene. According to several sagas, she was given as a marriage gift Ladoga and adjacent lands, which later received the name Ingria (arguably a corruption of Ingigerd's name).

She initiated the building of the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev that was supervised by her husband, who styled himself czar. They had six sons and four daughters, which became Queens of France, Hungary, Norway, and (arguably) England. The whole family is depicted in one of the frescoes of the Saint Sophia. Upon her death on 10 Feb. 1049, she was buried in the same cathedral.

Ingigerd-Irene is sometimes confused with Yaroslav's first wife, whose name was Anna. She was declared a local saint in Novgorod because of her initiative of building the Cathedral of St Sophia in Novgorod, where she is buried.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingegerd_Olofsdotter"


Gyrid Olafsdottir

Swedish princess, accompanied her brother to Denmark where she married Bluetooth.


Rognvald Olafsson

Ragnvald the Mountain-High was a petty king of Vestfold in what is today Norway. He was the son of Olaf Geirstad-Alf and the cousin of Harald Fairhair.

His greatest contribution to posterity was that he asked the skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir to compose a poem about his ancestry. This poem is known as Ynglingatal and is not only one of the oldest, but also one of the most famous and debated of the Old Norse poems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnvald_the_Mountain-High