DESCENDANTS of IVAR HVIDE

IVAR “Hvide/the White”, son of --- (-[1027]). Snorre names "Ivar the White…a daughter's son of Earl Hakon the Great"[206]. Morkinskinna names “Ívarr hvíti…one of Saint Óláfr´s district chieftains”[207]. m ---. The name of Ivar´s wife is not known. Ivar & his wife had one child:

1. HAAKON Ivarsson (-after 1065) m Ragnhild [daughter of] King Magnus" dated to [1062] from the context[212]. Haakon & his wife had two children:

a) SUNNIVA Haakonsdotter . Morkinskinna names “Sunnifa” as daughter of “Jarl Hákon”[213]. m ---. One child:

i) HAAKON . Orkneyinga Saga names “Hakon…the Norseman” as “another grandson” of “Hakon Ivarsson”, adding that he was father of “Eirik the Wise,King of Denmark after Eirik Eymuni”[214]. Morkinskinna, on the other hand, names “Hákon” as son of “Jarl Hákon”[215]. It is seems chronologically more probable that the father of King Erik Lam was the grandson rather than the son of Jarl Haakon Ivarsson. m RAGNHILD Eriksdatter, illegitimate daughter of ERIK "Ejegod/the Good" King of Denmark & his mistress ---. Morkinskinna records that “Hákon”, son of “Jarl Hákon”, married “the daughter of King Sveinn Úlfsson”[216]. It seems chronologically improbable for the mother of King Erik Lam to have been the daughter of King Svend II. Haakon & his wife had one child:

(a) ERIK (-Odense, St Knuds Abbey 27 Aug 1146, bur Odense, St Knuds Abbey). Orkneyinga Saga names “Hakon…the Norseman” as “another grandson” of “Hakon Ivarsson”, adding that he was father of “Eirik the Wise,King of Denmark after Eirik Eymuni”[217]. Morkinskinna names “Eiríkr Lam, the king of the Danes” as the son of “Hákon”, son of “Jarl Hákon”, and his wife “the daughter of King Sveinn Úlfsson”[218]. He succeeded in 1137 as ERIK III "Lam" King of Denmark. The Chronicon Roskildense records that "Hericum tertium filium sororis…Herici" succeeded on the death of King Erik II[219]. The Chronicon Roskildense records that "rex…Hericus" became a monk in the tenth year of his reign[220]. - KINGS of DENMARK.

b) daughter. m PAUL Thorfinsson Joint Jarl of Orkney, son of THORFINN "the Black" Jarl of Orkney & his wife Ingibjörg Finnsdatter (-in prison Bergen 1098).

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