Døde på sotteseng, lovga at alle døde skulle brennes, og det de eide av løsøre skulle brennes med dem. Aska skulle spres på sjøen eller graves ned i jorda. Det skulle blotes for godt år om høsten, midtvinters for grøden og det tredje om sommeren; seiersblotet. Innførte skatt, 1 penning på hver "nese". Fikk gudestatus etter sin død og ble tilbedt og ofret til i mer enn tusen år. Mange koner og avkom, bl.a. Skade som han fikk sønnen Sæming med. Skade var først gift med Njord.
Eahlmund or Alemund or Edmund, son of Eafa. "A.D. 784. At this time reigned Elmund King in Kent, the father of Egbert; and Egbert was the father of Athulf (Aethelwulf)." Ref. (ASC 784, 854; ARSC 1-12). He reigned from 784 to 786. He married a daughter of Æthelbert II, Joint-King of Kent.
Efter att ha besegrat sin bror Jaropolk 980 blev han herre även över Kiev, varefter de två furstendömena förenades och blev Rysslands mäktigaste. Döpte sig 987 och införde kristendomen som statsreligion, varför han efter sin död blev förklarad helig. (Källa: Bra Böcker)
Den virile kung Vladimir antog 988 kristendomen i dess ortodoxa form, slog sönder alla avgudabilder, upplöste sitt väldiga harem, förmälde sig med den byzantinska prinsessan Anna (syster till 'bulgardödaren', kejsaren Basileios II) och lät massdöpa alla sina undersåtar i Dnjepr. (Källa: Alf Henriksson)
Vladimir blir 970 furste i Novgorod. Vladimir flyr 977 från Novgorod till Skandiavien. Vladimir återvänder 980 tillsammans med varjager, intar Kiev, dödar Jaropolk och blir furste i Rus. Olaf Tryggvasson växer upp på 980-talet hos Vladimir. Vladimir gifter sig 988 med kejsarsystern Anna och döps. (Källa: Vikingar i österled, Mats G. Larsson)
Väringar (på ryska varjager) kallades nordiska krigare som under vikingatid och tidig medeltid tog tjänst som legosoldater i den bysantinske kejsarens livvakt. De var samtidigt ungefär 500 till antalet och ryktbara för tapperhet och trohet mot sin herre. Efter normandernas erövring av England vid 1000-talets mitt ersattes de nordiska soldaterna successivt av anglosaxiska. (Källa: Bra Böcker)
Efter moderns död inackorderad han hos Jan Andersson i Slåttåsen för 32 Rd därav 2 Rd för kläder.
Dessutom lämnades till Jan Anderssons dotter, för vård av barnen och skötsel av den avlidna 2 Rd Rm.
Efter studier vid Örebro läroverk, blef B. student i Uppsala 1866, fil. kand. 1872 och fil. doktor 1877. Han ägnade sig därefter åt juridiska studier, blef juris kandidat 1880, v. häradshöfding 1882 och juris doktor 1884 efter försvaret af en alhandling: »Om tiltsynen af omyndigs egendom samt om förmyndarekamrar enligt svensk rätt». Han befordrades kort därefter till assessor i skånska hofrätten 1886 blef konstit. revisionssekreterare 1889 och utnämndes till häradshöfding i Norra Åsbo domsaga i Skåne 1892. Härifrån kallades han 1898 till justitieombudsman efter lottning med platsens förutvarande innehafvare, och en till visshet gränsande förmodan hur uppstått, att på B. härvid fallit alla rösterna från Andra kammarens elektorer, hvilka. voro missnöjda med den afgåendes ståndpunkt i ett mål om offentliga handlingars tillgänglighet. Den goda tanke, de åter hyste om B., grundad på hans uppträdande i hemorten, har åter visat sig fullt berättigad, ty här om någonsin kan man säga, att »rätta mannen kommit på rätta platsen». Ej nog med, att han med sällsynt drift och oväld beifrat missbruk och öfvergrepp inom den civila och militära ämbetsmannavärlden, har han äfven uppfyllt en annan, under de senare decennierna åsidosatt, skyldighet, som åligger detta ämbete, nämligen »att utreda lagskipningens tillstånd i riket, anmärka lagarnas och författningarnas brister samt afgifva förslag till deras förbättring». De af honom afgifna förslagen vittna om en med godt omdöme parad vaken blick och en nobel humanitet, liksom de af honom påpekade bristerna i lagskipningen, trots det skri, de väckt hos dem, det vederbör, (såsom t. ex. i fråga om öfveråriga domhafvandes tjänstledighet), näppeligen kunna af någon opartisk förnekas. Också har B., trots den mot honom oblida stämningen i Första kammaren, för hvarje år haft att fröjda sig åt ett stigande röstetal bland elektorerna.
Eighth King of all Britain, claimed title of Bretwalda. Reigned 802-839. In 800 at the decease of King Brithric, Egbert was called by the voice of his countrymen to assume the Government of Wessex, and he subsequently succeeded in reducing all the Kingdoms of the Heptarchy under his sway. His reign, a long and glorious one, is memorable for the great victories he achieved over the Danes. (See Europäisch Stammtafeln Bund II tafel 58.)
Egbert laid the foundations for the ascendancy of Wessex among the English kingdoms. At first an unsuccessful claimant to the Wessex crown, he finally became King in 802. Egbert defeated the Mercian King Beornwulf at Ellandune (825) and briefly (828-29) held the kingdom of Mercia itself. He was also recognized as King in Kent, Surrey, Sussex,and Essex and received the nominal submission of Northumbria. The later years of his reign were marked by frequent Danish raids on England. The male line of kings descend from him to Edward theConfessor and the female line to the present time.
The official male line of descent for the British Royalty begins with Egbert and concludes with Edward the Confessor. The female line extends to the present time. Egbert's wife, Eadburh, was a daughter of Theodoric IV (Makhir) Aymeri of Autun, shown elsewhere in this genealogy.
The death of Egbert looks like it took place in 839, as there are many ref. refering to his reign from 802-839. "Egbert dies leaving a greater Wessex 839". King Egbert of Wessex has died, ending a 37-year reign in which he reshaped...
Stewart Baldwin says: The "orthodox" genealogy of Egbert makes him a son of Ealhmund, son of Eafa, son of Eoppa, son of Ingild, brother of king Ine of Wessex (688-726). The generations prior to Ine are a separate matter, and this posting will be concerned with the generations listed above. Egbert's father Ealhmund is not otherwise identified in any source from the ninth century, but it has been frequently noted that there was a king of Kent of that name (ruling ca. 784) who would make a chronologically plausible father. If you make the reasonable assumption that the two Ealhmunds were one and the same, this gives Egbert a known (but extremely obscure) father. Although this assumption cannot be considered certain, it does seem at least probable, so let us assume this identity for the remainder of the posting.
Some believe that the pedigree back to a brother of Ine has been fabricated. It must be admitted that the evidence for Egbert's pedigree is not so good as we would prefer to have. However, in my opinion, the case for a fabricated pedigree has been overstated. If the pedigree is fabricated, what evidence is there that this was the case? The argument that Ealhmund was a king of Kent (and therefore not of the West Saxon dynasty) is not a good one, for the Kentish monarchy was very unstable during the entire period, and had a succession of kings that were either of obscure origin, or were princes from foreign dynasties. During the same period, the dynasties of both Essex and Mercia had supplied kings to Kent. If Essex and Mercia could do it, why not Wessex? A prince from Wessex obtaining the Kentish throne would just be one more example of what was going on there, both before and after the reign of Ealhmund.
WAS THE PEDIGREE FABRICATED?
So, what direct evidence is there that the generations between Egbert and Ingild (or some of them) were fabricated? To my knowledge, there isn't any. The well known fact that SOME of the generations (i.e.,
pre-Cerdic) in this genealogy were fabricated does not constitute evidence that THESE generations were. However, for the sake of argument, let us assume for the moment that the generations back to Ingild were fabricated, in order to give Egbert a relationship to Ine that he did not have, and let us see where such an argument would lead.
The first question would then be, when was the pedigree written down for the first time? In principle, it could have been written down any time between the accession of Egbert in 802 (since it would be unlikely to have been written down earlier), and the reign of Egbert's grandson Alfred the great (the age of the earliest manuscripts giving the genealogy). Now, 802 is only 76 years after the death of Ine, which is pretty close to living memory. One of the basic facts about the fabrication of genealogies is that the earlier the fabricated generations are, the easier it is to get by with it without being caught. Fabricating such a link during the time of Egbert without being caught would have been very difficult, so if the genealogy is fabricated, then we would almost have to assume that it was written much later, say in the reign of Alfred, and even then, it would not be that far outside living memory.
If we make that assumption, we run into another problem, that of motive. The obvious motive for a phony genealogy is to strengthen claims to the throne on the face of possible opposition. However, by the time of Alfred, the dynasty of Egbert was already quite secure on the throne. Of course, they were in danger from the Danes, but that was an external threat. By the time of Alfred, Egbert and his sons and four grandsons had occupied the throne of Wessex for six consecutive reigns, and the only other claimants to the throne who are known were also descendants of Egbert. (Faking a genealogy only helps if the other claimants don't have the same descent.) Of course, these arguments do not prove that the pedigree is genuine, but they do serve to illustrate how inconclusive the argument for fabrication is.
WHAT WAS THE KENTISH CONNECTION?
In addition to the probability that Egbert's father was king of Kent, the other evidence of a Kentish connection is onomastic, as there were two kings of Kent named Egbert. In what one might call the "revised orthodox" genealogy of Egbert, his patrilineal line of descent is kept exactly as in the orthodox genealogy, and a marriage with a Kentish princess is hypothsised (with differences in the details, depending on who is doing the hypothsising), in order to explain Ealhmund's reign as king of Kent and Egbert's first name.
Another possibility that has been mentioned is a patrilineal Kentish descent for Egbert (abandoning the "orthodox" genealogy). If this is supposed to mean a patrilineal descent from the kings who ruled Kent in the seventh and early eighth centuries, then I think that this can be considered very unlikely. The reason for this (in addition to the lack of supporting evidence) is that if it were true, it would make Egbert (and Alfred) a direct male line descendant of both Aethelbert, the first Christian Anglo-Saxon king, and Hengist, the mythical (but real to people of the ninth century) first Anglo-Saxon invader of Britain. I consider it unlikely in the extreme that Alfred would have abandoned such a politically useful genealogy if there were any truth to it.
So, what of the "revised orthodox" genealogy. It is plausible enough, but there are other possibilities. Given the chronology of his reign, Egbert of Wessex was probably born during the reign of Egbert II of Kent (764-79). If Ealhmund had been an exiled West Saxon prince seeking his fortune in the turbulent Kentish politics of the time, naming his son after the king of Kent might be a politically astute move, even if there were no genealogical reason for doing so. (If this is true, Egbert II of Kent might have even been the Godfather of Egbert of Wessex.) (In fact, we see something similar a couple of generations later, when Aethelwulf of Wessex gave two of his sons, Aethelbald and Aethelred, the names of previous Mercian kings, despite the fact that there is no evidence for a Mercian descent. Could Aethelwulf have been giving his sons names which would be acceptable to the people of Mercia?) This is admittedly speculative, but it does show that there is a plausible scenario which has no genealogical connection to the earlier kings of Kent.
CONCLUSIONS
The following two conclusions are my main opinions on the matter. Given the sometimes heated arguments which have been made on this subject in the past, I suspect that others may have different opinions.
1. The "orthodox" genealogy of Egbert back to Ingild is most likely correct, although it would certainly be nice if we had better evidence to that effect.
2. The suggestion that Egbert was a descendant of the kings of Kent in the female line, while plausible enough, is too weakly supported to be regarded as anything more than one possibility.
Einar Tambarskjelve was Norwegian Chieftan from Trøndelag, and was an exceptional delegate for the nobleman opposition against the King's authority. He was a son of Eindride Styrkarsson of Gimse in Gauldalen, and obtained his nickname after his bow Tamb, as he used it with unusual skill. At 18 years of age he fought side by side with King Olav Trygvassons in the battle of Svolder in the year 1000, but was reconciled with the victors, earl Erik and Svein of Lade, and married their sister, Bergljot, a daughter of Earl Håkon the Great. At one time, he was in sharp opposition to King Olav Haraldsson and then he had to leave Norway. A reconciliation was entered in 1022.
654. Einar Tambarsjelve
ca. 9721050, stormann fra Trøndelag. Skal ha kjempet med OlavTryggvason i slaget ved Svolder. Stod i opposisjon til Olav denhellige. Deltok ikke i slaget på Stiklestad og var med på å innkalleOlavs sønn Magnus
(den gode).
Einar Tambarskjelve var norsk stormann fra Trøndelag, og var en fremragende representant for lendermannsopposisjonen mot kongemakten. Han var sønn a Eindride Styrkarsson av Gimse i Gauldalen, og fikk navnet sitt etter buen Tamb, som han brukte med usedvanlig dyktighet. I 18-års alderen kjempet han ved kong Olav Trygvassons side i slaget ved Svolder i år 1000, men forsonet seg senere med seierherrene, jarlene Erik og Svein av Lade, og giftet seg med deres søster, Bergljot. Han sto i skarp opposisjon til kong Olav Haraldsson og måtte for en tid forlate Norge. Et forlik som ble inngått i 1022 førte ikke til noe vennskap, for i 1023 dro Einar sammen med andre misfornøyde til kong Knut og oppfordret ham til å underlegge seg Norge. Men heller ikke med Knuts og hans sønn Sveins styre var Einar tilfreds, antagelig fordi han selv ikke ble jarl. Han roste seg senere av at han ikke hadde deltatt i slaget ved Stiklestad, og var en av de første til å anerkjenne Olavs hellighet. I 1035 innkalte han sammen med Kalv Arnesson Olavs sønn, Magnus den gode, som da oppholdt seg i Gardarike, og ble deretter denne konges trofaste følgesvein og rådgiver. Derimot kom han fra første stund av i et spendt forhold til Harald Hardråde - samkonge med Magnus og dennes halvbror. Tilslutt lot Harald ham snikmyrde sammen med sønnen Eindride (1055). Deres lik ble begravet i Nidaros ved siden av Magnus den godes gravsted.
Eirik 1 Blodøks, ca. 895-954, eldste sønn av Harald Hårfagre.Etter farens død representerte Eirik riksenheten overfor brødrene,hvorav flere ble drept. Det lyktes den yngste av dem, Håkon Adalsteinsfostre, å fordrive Eirik, som så senere ble konge i Northumberland.
Eirik 1 Blodøks (blood-axe), ca. 895-954, oldest son of Harald Fair-Hair. Followed his father on the throne, ruling over his brothers, whereof several were killed. The youngest, Håkon Adalsteinforstre, succeeded in running Eirik out of the country, and Eirik later became king in Northumberland.
