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  • ID: I20510
  • Name: Sigurd "Digri" Hlodvesson 1 2 3
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: ABT 965 in Orkney Islands, Scotland
  • Death: 23 APR 1014 in Battle of Clontarf, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland 2 3
  • Burial: Burial Mound, Hofry, Caithness, Scotland
  • Event: Ruled BET 987 AND 1014 Orkney Islands, Scotland
  • Note: Around the close of the first millennium the territory in the northernmost part of Scotland over which the Earls of Caithness later held sway was frequently divided in two, each part being in the possession of different Norse Jarls or Earls of Orkney, though each Jarl seems to have been a member of the same extended family. The Earldom (as it came to be called) of Orkney and that of Caithness differed to a certain extent in that the former was held of the Kings of Norway while the latter was held of the Kings of Scots. This meant that different customs were observed in each territory, specifically in the case of the Earldoms that the Orkney one was held jointly while the Caithness one was only sometimes so held. The Earldom of Caithness could be (and frequently was) disposed of by the Kings of Scots to different persons in the lifetime of the original grantee or grantee's heir, either jointly or solely, which makes it pointless, however tempting, to assign any ordinal numbering to the Earldom at this time. [Burke's Peerage]



    Father: Hlodvir Thorfinnsson b: ABT 946 in Orkney Islands, Scotland
    Mother: Eithne Kjarvalssdottir b: 928 in Orkney Islands, Scotland

    Marriage 1 Miss Unknown b: ABT 963 in Orkney Islands, Scotland
      Children
      1. Has No Children Somerled Sigurdsson b: ABT 983 in Orkney Islands, Scotland
      2. Has No Children Einar "Wrymouth" Sigurdsson b: ABT 993 in Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland

      Marriage 2 Thorda Donada (Olith) Scotland b: ABT 986 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland
      • Married: AFT 1005 in Orkney Islands, Scotland 3
      Children
      1. Has Children Brusi Sigurdsson b: ABT 988 in Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland
      2. Has Children Thorfinn Sigurdsson b: ABT 1009 in Orkney Islands, Scotland

      Sources:
      1. Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, Seventh Edition
        Author: Weis, Frederick Lewis
        Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1995
      2. Title: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999
        Note: DATE 2000
      3. Title: Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom; GE Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd {2000}
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