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Ulf Thorgilsson, commonly known as Ulf Jarl or Earl Ulf, was a Danish jarl of Skåne and regent of Denmark. Ulf was the son of Thorgil Sprakling and the father of King Sweyn II of Denmark and thus the progenitor of the House of Estridsen , which would rule Denmark from 1047 to 1375, which was also sometimes, specially in Swedish sources ...
Svend was made a jarl under Danish king Harthacnut (the two were first cousins), [4] and led a campaign for him against Norway, but was beaten by Magnus I of Norway. [5] When Harthacnut died in 1042, Magnus claimed the Danish throne and made Svend the jarl of Jutland. [6]
Eric I the Good (c. 1060, Slangerup, Denmark – 10 July 1103, Paphos, Cyprus), Jarl of Zealand from 1080, King of Denmark from 1095 — for his ancestors, see above Saint Canute Lavard (March 12, 1096 – 7 January 1131), King of Southern Jutland from 1115, King of the Wends from 1129, married Ingeborg , a daughter of Mstislav I of Kiev
The Sigtrygg Runestones of the "House of Olaf" was raised after king Sigtrygg by his mother. 934 AD. King Cnut I (Harthacnut). 17th century engraving.. The exact date of origin of the Kingdom of Denmark is not established, but names of Danish kings begins to emerge in foreign sources from the 8th century and onwards.
In Denmark the jarl was the king's deputy, as Ulf Jarl (died in 1026) was to Canute the Great, king of England, Denmark and Norway. The last jarl of Southern Jutland, Canute Lavard (died in 1131), became the first Danish hertug , with the title "Hertug af Slesvig" ("Duke of Schleswig"). Thus the title hertug (duke) came to replace the old Norse ...
King of Denmark r. 1018–1035: Harald II d. 1018 King of Denmark r. 1014–1018: Estrid Svendsdatter 990 or 997 – between 1057 and 1073: Ulf the Earl Jarl of Orkney d. 1026: Gyda of Sweden d. c. 1048/1049: Sweyn II Estridsson c. 1019 –1076 King of Denmark r. 1047–1076: Tora Torbergsdatter: Beorn Estrithson d. 1049: Harald III Hardrada c ...
The new king of Denmark has changed the country’s royal coat of arms to more prominently feature Greenland in an apparent rebuke of President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to take over the ...
King Olaf of Sweden received four districts in Trondheim as well as Møre, Romsdal and Rånrike (the Fagrskinna, by contrast, says that the Swedish part consisted of Oppland and a part of Trondheim). He gave these to his son in law, Jarl Svein Hákonarson, to hold as a vassal. The rest of Norway was ruled by Eirik Hákonarson as King Svein's ...