| Cæcilia (Knutsdottir) Knutsdatter was part of early Scandinavian history. Join: Early Scandinavia Project Discuss: EARLY_SCANDINAVIA |
Contents |
Cecilia Knudsdatter av Danmark
Cæcilia var datter af Kong Knud den Hellige og Adele af Flandern. Hun var tvillingesøster til Ingegerd af Danmark og lillesøster til Karl af Flandern.[1]
Cecilia ægtede den gøtiske Jarl Erik som senere blev Jarl over Falster; de omtales som boende paa Gaarden Haraldsted, nord for Ringsted. De hade sønnerne Knud og Carl. [1]
Wikipedia nämner även en dotter vid namn Inger[2]
At the deposition and murder of her father in 1086, her mother left Denmark and returned to Flanders with her son Carl (Charles), while Cecilia and her twin sister Ingegerd followed their paternal uncle Eric I of Denmark and Boedil Thurgotsdatter to Sweden.
Both sisters married Swedish aristocrats. Cecilia married Eric Jarl. She later returned to Denmark, where her spouse was made jarl of Falster, and the couple settled at Haraldsted at Ringsted. The couple had two sons: Knud and Carl, Duke of Halland. In 1131, Canute Lavard visited her.
-Dotter, -Datter, -Dottir are all the same ending, meaning "daughter" in Scandinavia, and attached behind the father's first name. A woman kept her birth name all her life and did not take on her husband's last name as her own until about 100-200 years ago.
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Featured National Park champion connections: Cæcilia is 25 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 28 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 26 degrees from George Catlin, 26 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 34 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 25 degrees from George Grinnell, 28 degrees from Anton Kröller, 25 degrees from Stephen Mather, 31 degrees from Kara McKean, 28 degrees from John Muir, 20 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 36 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
K > Knutsdottir | K > Knutsdatter > Cecilia (Knutsdottir) Knutsdatter
Categories: Early Scandinavia Project