Sigurd (Guttormson) Torsnes d.y. (1350 - 1416)

Born 1350 in Torsnes, Jondal, Hordaland, Norway

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Died 1416 at about age 66 in Torsnes, Jondal, Hordaland, Norway

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Biography

Sigurd Guttormson was the son of Guttorm Sigurdson, and held Torsnes in Jondal about 1360-1400.^[1]

He was married to a daughter of Bård Karlshovedson from Norheim in Kvam.^[1] Their children were:

• Bård, the next to hold Torsnes^[1]
• Guttorm, possibly mentioned in the Icelandic "Biskopa Sogur"^[1]

Sigurd is named the son of Guttorm, and the father of Bård and Guttorm, in a diploma from 1409.^[2] He may also be mentoned in two diplomas from 1375 and 1380, which name Sigurd Guttormson the brother's son to Brynhild Sigurdsdotter at Rogne, Voss.^[1]

Research Notes

Prior to the discovery of the 1409 diploma in 1949, Sigurd at Torsnes was believed to have been Sigurd Gauteson Galte.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} 'Jondal Kommune: Gards- og slektssoge. 2, pp. 923-925.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} 'Jondal i gamal og ny tid, pp. 53-54.

• Gaute Losnegård. Jondal Kommune: Gards- og slektssoge. 2. Jondal kommune, 2003.
• Olav Kolltveit, Jondal i gamal og ny tid. Jondal Bygdeboknemnd, 1953. Available to Norwegian IPs at Nasjonalbiblioteket