LDS Church records have several generations inbetween Erik Edmundsson and Bjorn "Ironside" Ragnarson:
Edmund Eriksson, father Erik Refilsson, father Refill Bjordnsson, then father Bjorn Ragnarson.
Eirik Eymundson, King of Sweden, said he would not rest until he had as great a kingdom in Viken as Sigurd ring, or his son Ragnar Lodbrok, had possessed. His comment made Harald Finehair, King of Sweden/Norway, a bit upset since in Harald's absence, Eirik had taken over Vermaland.
Both Eirik and Harald had been invited to a feast at a bonde's home, Ake,
who gave the parties separate halls, Eirik received fine but old utensils,
Harald receiving new fine utensils. Upon leaving, Eirik asked Ake why the
difference, Ake explained he had served both well but Eirik was older and
received the older utensils, where upon Eirik took Ake's life and doing so,
greatly angered Harald.
The Heimskringla, Harald Harfager's Saga
King of England 1272 to 1307
House of Anjou, the Plantagenet family
Named after Edward the Confessor, his father's favorite king and last Anglo Saxon king
1254 - Traveled to Castile, Spain to marry at 15, they remained devoted to each other for 36 years until her death in 1290 Received Glascony from his father, included parts of Ireland, Chanel Islands 1263 - Became Simon de Montfort's greatest enemy during civil war 1265 - Defeated de Montfort at Evesham 1270- Joined the Seventh Crusade along side King of France, Louis IX, financed by Parliment granting 1/20th of all citizen's possessions. Louis died of the plaque in Tunis before Edward's arrival. His wife must have gone along since they had a child born there. 1272 - Father Henry III died, Edward succeeded to the throne, crowned 1274 1277 - Began his campaign against Llywelyn Gruffydd and control of Wales, succeeded by 1282 at Gruffydd's death 1290 - Expelled all Jews from England 1290 - Arranged marriage between Margaret, maid of Norway (heir to throne of Scotland) to son Edward failed when she dies enroute. 1296 - Invaded and conquered Scotland 1301 - Son Edward II named Prince of Wales 1304 - Willliam Wallace's execution 1307 - Died in route to subdue the Scots, near Carisle, 07 Jul 1307
Edward I (17 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), popularly known as "Longshanks" because of his 6 foot 2 inch (1.88 m) frame and the "Hammer of the Scots" (his tombstone, in Latin, read, Hic est Edwardus Primus Scottorum Malleus, "Here is Edward I, Hammer of the Scots"), achieved fame as the monarch who conquered Wales and who kept Scotland under English domination during his lifetime. He reigned from 1272 to 1307, ascending the throne of England on 21 November 1272 after the death of his father, King Henry III of England. His mother was Queen consort Eleanor of Provence.
Edward was born at the Palace of Westminster on 17 or 18 June 1239. He was an older brother of Beatrice of England and Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster. From 1239 to 1246 Edward was in the care of Hugh Giffard (the son of Godfrey Giffard) and his wife, Sybil, who had been one of the midwives at Edward's birth. On Giffard's death in 1246, Bartholomew Pecche took over. Early grants of land to Edward included Gascony, but Simon de Montfort had been appointed by Henry to seven years as royal lieutenant in Gascony in 1248, a year before the grant to Edward, so in practice Edward derived neither authority nor revenues from the province.
Edward's first marriage was arranged in 1254 by his father and Alphonso X, the ruler of Castile. Alphonso had insisted that Edward receive grants of land worth 15,000 marks a year, and also asked to knight him; Henry had already planned a knighthood ceremony for Edward but conceded. Edward crossed the channel in June, and was knighted by Alphonso and married to Eleanor of Castile on 1 November 1254 in the monastery of Las Huelgas.
In 1255 Edward and Eleanor both returned to England. The chronicler Matthew Paris tells of a row between Edward and his father over Gascon affairs; Edward and Henry's policies continued to diverge, and on 9 September 1256, without his father's knowledge, Edward signed a treaty with Gaillard de Soler, the ruler of one of the Bordeaux factions. Edward's freedom of manoeuvre was limited, however, since the seneschal of Gascony, Stephen Longespée, held Henry's authority in Gascony. Edward had been granted much other land, including Wales and Ireland, but for various reasons had less involvement in their administration.
Eleanor and Edward had sixteen children, and her death in 1290 affected Edward deeply. He displayed his grief by erecting the Eleanor crosses, one at each place where her funeral cortege stopped for the night. His second marriage, in September 1299, to Marguerite of France (known as the "Pearl of France" by her English subjects), the daughter of King Philippe III of France (Phillip the Bold) and Maria of Brabant, produced three children.
Son of Ethelred the Unready, well introduced to battle at his father's death. England was currently controlled by Canute, the son of Sveyn except for London.
Daneslaw was divided in that Edmund had rescued and married the widow of the Thane of East Anglia, who his father had executed as a traitor because he was one of the first who submitted to Svein 's landing in 1013.
1014 Edmund and his brother, Edward, set out with St King Olaf to Jungufurda
in Danish england territory, but turned back.
1015 Canute returned, Edmund's army was ready but Ethelred's would not fight
unless commanded by the king who was continually ill and unavailable.
1016 Ethelred died and Edmund was quickly pronounced king.
Edmund was the second son of King Æthelred II and his first wife, Ælflaed of Northumbria. He had three brothers, the elder being Æthelstan, and the younger two being Ædred and Ecgbert. His mother was dead by 996, and his father remarried twice more.
Æthelstan died in 1014, leaving Edmund as heir. A power-struggle began between Edmund and his father, and in 1015 King Æthelred had two of Edmund's allies, Sigeferth and Morcar, executed. Edmund then took Morcar's widow, Ældgyth, from the nunnery where she had been imprisoned and married her in defiance of his father. During this time, Canute the Great attacked England with his forces.
On November 30, 1016, King Edmund II died of natural causes in Oxford or London, and his territories were ceded to Canute who then became king of England. Edmund was buried at Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset. His burial site is now lost. During the Dissolution of the Monasteries any remains of a monument or crypt were destroyed and the location of his body is unknown.Edmund had two children by Ældgyth: Edward the Exile and Edmund, who both escaped to Hungary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_II_of_England
Edmund and Canute fought five undecisive major battles, earning Edmund the
nickname "Ironside" Meanwhile, the Witan (Council), meeting at Southampton,
chose Canute as King.
Edmund held against Canute's attack on London, lost at Sherstone as Edric
of Shropshire convinced the amy Edmund was dead, lost at Ashington on Oct
18, and the weary armies agreed to negotiate at the battle at Deerhurst in
Gloucester.
The Treaty of Olney was signed at the end of October. Canute got Mercia and
Northumria, Edmund got Wessex and returned to London. It was also agreed
that whoever survived the other would take control of the whole realm.
Edmund was wounded at Ashington and ill but his death in November was a surprise. Rumours of his disembowlment on the privy have never been disproved, and it has been speculated that he was murdered by Edric Streon, Earl of Mercia, husband of Edgyth, daughter of Ethelred II the Unready, his brother in law. Edmund's sons and other princes were whisked out of England.
Canute became King of All England, then replaced by Harold I Harefoot son of Canute, Hardicanute son of Canute, Edward the Confessor Edmund's half brother, then Harold II son of Godwine and finally Edward Atheling before William the Conqueror's triumph.
Supposedly killed on the toilet, stabbed twice through the bowels while he sat by a Henry Strion, immediately after an agreement with Canute to split England. Oh gawd.....
First King of Gwynedd - Cunedda Wledig the Imperator fl. early 5th century
Cunedda = Celtic for Kenneth, meaning "good lord"
One of the founding fathers of the Welsh dynasty
Grandfather's command of Roman British troops in the Votadini or Gododdin
area, later Bernicia and Lothian, passed to Cunedda through father around
430. He became chief but was not of the area. Heavily involved in wars against
Picts who were threatening lands south of Hadrian's wall.
Married Gwawl the daughter of Coel Hen.
450 - famine acute in Britain, Saxons invade from east, Irish from west.
Cunedda and family moved south by order of Vortigen to protect Wales from
invading Irish.
Established himself in North Wales in territory of the Venedotians which
became the core of Gwynedd. Kept Irish at bay but not from Demetia in SW
Wales.
A battle poem calls him Cunedda the Lion.
Born around 400, lived to be about sixty, nine sons.
His rule as passed to elder son Einon Yrth Venedos (Gwynedd)
Mike Ashley has his line leading back through time to Beli Mawr the Great.
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Cunedda ap Edern (c.AD 386-c.460; reigned from the 440s or 450s) (Latin: Cunetacius; English: Kenneth), also known as Cunedda Wledig ('the Imperator'), was an important early Welsh leader, and the progenitor of the royal dynasty of Gwynedd.
The name 'Cunedda' derives from the Brythonic word counodagos, meaning 'good lord'. His genealogy is traced back to Padarn Beisrudd, which literally translated as Paternus of the Scarlet Robe. One traditional interpretation identifies Padarn as a Roman (or Romano-British) official of reasonably high rank who had been placed in command of Votadini troops stationed in the Clackmannanshire region of Scotland in the 380s or earlier by the Emperor Magnus Maximus. Alternatively, he may have been a frontier chieftain who was granted Roman military rank, a practice attested elsewhere along the empire's borders at the time. In all likelihood, Padarn's command in Scotland was assumed after his death by his son, Edern (in Latin, Aeturnus), and then passed to Edern's son, Cunedda.
Cunedda and his forebears led the Votadini against Pictish and Irish incursions south of Hadrian's Wall. Sometime after this, the Votadini troops under Cunedda relocated to North Wales in order to defend the region from Irish invasion. Cunedda established himself in Wales, in the territory of the Venedoti, which would become the centre of the kingdom of Gwynedd. Two explanations for these actions have been suggested: either Cunedda was acting under the orders of Maximus (or Maximus's successors) or Vortigern, the high king of the British in the immediate post-Roman era. The range of dates (suggested by PC Bartrum) runs from the late 370s, which would favor Maximus, to the late 440s, which would favor Vortigern.
The suggestion that Cunedda was operating under instructions from Rome has been challenged by several historians. David Dumville dismisses the whole concept of transplanting foederati from Scotland to Wales in this manner, especially given the political state of sub-Roman Britain which may not have been able to exhibit such centralised control by the fifth century. As Maximus himself was dead by the end of 388, and Constantine III departed from Britain with the last of Rome's military forces in 407, less than a generation later, it is doubtful that Rome had much direct influence over the military actions of the Votadini, either through Maximus or any other emissary, for any significant length of time.
Maximus (or his successors) may have handed over control of the British frontiers to local chieftains at an earlier date; with the evacuation of the fort at Chester (which Mike Ashley, incidentally, argues is most likely where Cunedda established his initial base in the region, some years later) in the 370s, he may have little option. Given that the archaeological record demonstrates Irish settlement on the Lleyn peninsula however and possible raids as far west as Wroxeter by the late 4th century, it is difficult to conceive of either Roman or allied British forces having presented an effective defence in Wales.
Academics such as Sheppard Frere have argued that it may have been Vortigern who, adopting elements of Roman statecraft, moved the Votadini south, just as he invited Saxon settlers to protect other parts of the island. According to this version of events, Vortigern would have instructed Cunedda and his Votadini subjects to move to Wales in response to the aforementioned Irish incursions no later than the year 442, when Vortigern's former Saxon allies rebelled against his rule.
Cunedda's supposed grandson Maelgwn Hir ap Cadwallon was a contemporary of Gildas, and according to the Annales Cambriae died in 547. The reliability of early Welsh genealogies is not uncontested however, and many of the claims regarding the number and identity of Cunedda's heirs did not surface until as late as the 10th century. Nonetheless, if we accept this information as valid, calculating back from this date suggests the mid-5th century interpretation.
Of Cunedda personally even less is known. Probably celebrated for his strength, courage, and ability to rally the beleaguered Romano-British forces of the region, he eventually secured a politically advantageous marriage to Gwawl, daughter of Coel Hen, the Romano-British ruler of Eboracum (modern York), and is claimed to have had nine sons. Cardigan (Welsh: Ceredigion) and Merioneth (Welsh: Meirionnydd) were supposedly named after his two sons Ceredig and Meirion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunedda
King of the West Saxons 26 Oct 899 to July 924
Succeeded his father, Alfred the Great, after his older brother, Edmund died
as an infant but long enought to be named heir apparent.
Edward was challenged by Athelwold, son of Aethelred, who seized the Wimborne
manor in Wessex and accepted as leader by Danes and Angles of York and East
Anglia until he was killed in 902 (904?)
910 Edward led an attack August 5 against the Danes at Tettenhall, killing
two Danish kings who were soon replaced by Ragnall (Norse) from Northumbria
and Jorvik (York) remained separate under Danish rule.
Edward and his sword wielding sister,
Aethelfleda who controlled
Mercia after the death of her husband, had rebuilt towns and forts that were
used to combat the oncoming Danish, methodically proceeded to take over Daneslaw.
917 Guthrum II was killed at Bedfordshire, basically ending the Danish
threat
920 The Danes of East Anglia finally submitted to Edward, who ruled most
of England by now. Edward had taken control of Mercia from
Elfwina, Aethfleda's daughter, considered too
young to rule.
922 Edward ruled all of England except Norse areas of York, Orkney and Western
Isles.
All of his survinvg sons succeeded him in some sort within the kingdom, Edwin,
Elfweard, Athelstan, Edmund and Eadred.
Elfweard was supposed to have been chosen as king by the witan, but he was "bookish" and supposed to be a hermit in Bridgnorth. Suggestions say he was murdered sixteen days after the election on his way to Winchester from Oxford to be crowned.
Edward did not marry Egwina, mother of his first son Athelstan. She as a noblewoman although scandal recalls she was a shepaherd's daughter.
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m1: Ecwina (Egwina) Did not marry her,
Children:
Athelstan Duke of East Anglia (-939)
Daughter
m2: Alfflaed (Elfleda) (878-919)
Children:
Ethelwerd
Edwin
Elfleda
Edgiva m Charles "The Simple" King of France
Ethelhilda
Edhilda
Elgiva m Ebles II De Poitiers
Aedgifu of England (-951) m(1) Charles_III the_Simple King of France (879-929)
Eadgyth (Edith) Princess of England (-0946) m. Otto I "the Great" Holy Roman
Emperor (912-973)
Editha Princess of England (-0946)
Elfgifu Princess of England
m3: Eadgifu of Kent (896-)
Children:
Edmund I "the Magnificent" King of England m(1) Edgira (Aelfgifu) (Elgiva)
Edred
Edburh
Edgiva
Adele of England
Sometimes referred to as Edmund I The Elder
Eadmund is Saxon for "protector of the riches"
Son of Edward the Elder from a third marriage, succeeded his half-brother, Æthelstan. Raised in Athelstan's household.
937 Old enought o accompany Athelstan in the battle of Brunanburh
939 Crowned at Athelstan's death
Olaf Gothfrithson, Norse king of Dublin trashed Mercia but was met by Edmund
at Leichester. Olaf was allowed to rule York and East Anglia which did not
go over well with the Danes who hated the Norse. Olaf Gothfrithson died,
succeeded by Olaf Stricson, Edmund took back Danish territories, Ragnall
Gothrithson took over. Olaf Stricson fled to Strathclyde.
944 Edmund went to north Britain and at the battle of York Ragnall was killed,
York returned to Saxon rule.
944 Recaptured Mercia from Danish
945 Edmund went to Strathclyde, chased Olaf Stricson back to Ireland, vonquered
all Norse lands in Cumbria, entrusting the land to Malcolm I of Scotland.
Edmund supported Dunstan in the reintroduction of the Monastic rule of St.
Benedict.
Edmund met his death when he was killed at Pucklechurch, north of Bath in
Gloucestershire, by a robber, outlaw Leolf who stabbed Edmund to death at
a banquet to St Augsutine. He evidentally recognized the robber, asked his
steward to arrest him. Edmund intervened in the battle and was stabbed.
Edmund had two infant sons, Edwy and Edgar, but was succeeded by his brother, Eadred, a weak and ill man with a strong will, vicious temper and little patience. There were scuffles in York but the kingdom of Jorvik ended.
Edwy "The Fair" succeeded Eadred at fourteen, who banished Dunstan, abbott of Glastonbury. Edward left the counsil during his coronation to be found consorting wirth a yound lady. He died of the "family malady" with no issue, although he married his childhood sweetheart but the church annulled the marriage as she was his third cousin. He was succeeded by his brother, Edgar.
Edgar is Saxon for "rich in spears"
Raised in ealdorman Athelstan's household
955 Edgar was appointed the kingship of Mercia and Northumbria at Eadred's
death.
959 Edgar became king of Wessex when Edwy died, controlling the three most
powerful kingdoms.
960 Recalled (St) Dunstan, made him Archbishop of Canterbury and his closest
personal advisor. Church officials were given separation from the crown,
created the soke of Peterborough where the abbott of St Peter had almost
complete independence.
973 Major coronation ceremony at Bath, formally crowned King of all England,
the first time the title was actually used in a coronation. Received the
ceremonial submission of all the other kings in Britain. Elfrida was crowned
Queen of England. Edgar used the ceremony to demonstrate his total control
over all kingdoms.
Considered the first ruler of a United England. Some of his predecessors were Kings of All England by virtue of being King of Wessex. Generally credited with the revival of the English church.
Edgar married a childhood friend, Athelfleda, who may have died in childbirth or left him around 961 due to his relationship with Wulfryth. Stories say he was in love with a nun (Wulfryth later became a nun) who bore him children and was banished to a nunnery. Edgar was fooling around with Elfrida and may have conspired to kill her first husband, his foster brother, in 964. They married the same year. Elfrida's persona came to be the classic wicked stepmother. Only after Dunstan convinced Edgar to straighten up did Dunstan agree to the massive coronation ceremony in 973.
Succeeded by his son, Edward the Martyr, elected by the Witan over the public's choice, Athelred the Unready. Edward was thirteen, had terrible fits of anger. After a three year rule he was murdered calling on his wicked stepmother at Corfe Castle in Dorset. As he arrived he was greeted and then stabbed by the househild retainers. Both his stepmother and Alfhere, the ealdorman of Mercia were implicated in his death. Alfhere was responsible for the swift moving Edward's bones to Shaftesbury.
After his death, people said there were miracles happening along his bones buried at Warham Abbey in Dorset, and he was proclaimed a saint and a martyr. He was re-buried at Shaftesbury Abbey in Dorset. In 1931, his bones were believed to be found and are now at Midland Bank in Croydon.
Great story: Lawlessness took over the country with only Dunstan standing by the church. Dunstan called all the councillors for a meeting in Calne in 978 in an upper room where the floor gave way and all were killed but Dunstan standing on a rafter on the side of the room. It was declared a miracle. Dunstan would have been about seventy, so even if it had been deliberate, he had placed himself at great risk.
Edward banished by Canute at his takeover in 1016. Canute did not want him killed on English soil and sent him to be killed by the Viking dukes of Novgorod. Instead, Edward made it to Kiev and to the court of Saint Stephen I King of Hungary and stayed until 1054 when Edward the Confessor learned he was alive and summoned him back to England.
1057 Edward returned to England with his two small children and died within days, probably murdered by Harold. Edward the Confessor raised Edward Atheling's children, Edgar, Margaret and Christin, nominated Edgar his heir.
Edward the Exile (1016 – February 1057), son of King Edmund Ironside and of Ealdgyth, gained the name of "Exile" from his life spent mostly far from the England of his forefathers. When only a few months old, he was sent by the usurper Canute to be murdered in Denmark, rather than on English soil. Instead, he was secretely brought to Kiev and then made his way to Hungary. On hearing the news of his being alive, Edward the Confessor recalled him to England and made him his heir. However, Edward the Exile died shortly after his return, causing a succession dispute that ultimately led to the Norman Conquest of England.
The paternity of his wife Agatha is debated: the medieval sources agree that she was a sister of a Hungarian Queen, and disagree as to other details. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Florence of Worcester's "Chronicon ex chronicis" describe Agatha as a blood relative of the Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor. Based on these sources, prominent genealogist Szabolcs de Vajay popularized an idea that she was the daughter of the Emperor's elder (uterine) half-brother, Liudolf, Count of Friesland (1962). Agatha's rare Greek name was recently interpreted in favour of a different version, expounded by Geoffrey Gaimar and Roger of Howden, that her father was a "Russian king", i.e. Yaroslav the Wise. Their children included Edgar Ætheling, Saint Margaret of Scotland and Cristina. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_the_Exile"
Second surviving son of Henry III, younger brother of Edward I Longshanks. His nickname refers to something he did on the Ninth Crusade, Crouchback means cross back, he was entitled to wear a cross on his back (?). Born in London, King of Sicily, Earl of Chester, Earl of Leichester and Lancaster, Count of Champagne and Brie in France.
He was granted Kenilworth Castle in 1267 by Henry III, who passed it on to his son Thomas.
Knight, Steward of England, Keeper of the Isle of Lundy, Lieutenant of Aquitane, 4th but youngest surviving son.
Edmund was at the seige of Kenilworth, granted the Earl of Lancaster, the honours of Derby forfeited by Robert de Ferrers. Edmund was on the Crusades 1271 to 1272.Commander in Wales, began the building of Aberystwyth Castle. Was part of the men who defeated and killed Llywelyn ap Gruffydd at Builth in