Ericksson, King of Sweden Olaf III

975 - 1022  (47 years)

• Name	Ericksson, Olaf  [1, 2]
  Title	King of Sweden
  Suffix	III
  Birth	975	Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Appointments / Titles	Between 995 and 1022	Sweden
  	King of Sweden
  House	Ynglinge
  FSID	L8YY-5HK
  Death	Nov 1022	Kronoberg, Örebro, Sweden   [1, 2]
  Burial	Nov 1022	Husaby, Västra Götaland, Sweden   [1]
  Person ID	I34448	The Thoma Family
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

  Family	of the Obodrites, Queen Estrid,   b. 979, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany d. 1035, Götene, Västra Götaland, Sweden (Age 56 years)
  Children	1. Olafsdotter, Saint Ingrid,   b. 1000, Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden d. Feb 1050, Novgorod, Russia (Age 50 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F13582	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 975 - Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden Death - Nov 1022 - Kronoberg, Örebro, Sweden Burial - Nov 1022 - Husaby, Västra Götaland, Sweden  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Click on this. Read it. Understand that Olof had two wives: "Olof was the son of Eric the Victorious (Erik Segersäll) and a woman whose identity is debated. According to Adam of Bremen, she was the sister or daughter of Boleslaw I Chrobry of Poland, according to Icelandic sources she was Sigrid the Haughty (Sigrid Storråda), a daughter of the Viking chief Skoglar Toste. Certain sources say that Olof had a brother called Emunde. >>> "With his first spouse (a mistress), EDLA, daughter of a Slavic chief, he had three children: - EMUND THE OLD, King of Sweden in c. 1050-1060 - ASTRID, d. after 1035, married to Olaf II of Norway (Olaf the Saint) - HOLMFRID, married to Sven Jarl of Norway >>> "With his second spouse, Queen ESTRID of the Obotrites, he had two children: - ANUND JAKOB, King of Sweden in 1022-c. 1050 - INGEGERD, d. 1050, married to Yaroslav I of Kiev" "Olof Skötkonung led a Viking expedition to Wendland early in his reign. He captured Edla, the daughter of a Wendish chieftain, and kept her as mistress. She gave him the son Emund (who was to become king of Sweden), and the daughters Astrid (later wife of Olaf II of Norway) and Holmfrid (married to Sven Jarl of Norway). He later married Estrid of the Obotrites, and she bore him the son Anund Jacob and the daughter Ingegerd Olofsdotter." "He succeeded his father in c. 995. He stands at the threshold of recorded history, since he is the first Swedish ruler about whom there is substantial knowledge. He is regarded as the first king known to have ruled both the Swedes and the Geats." "One of many explanations to the name Skötkonung is that it is derived from the Swedish word "skatt", which can mean either "taxes" or "treasure". The latter meaning has given the interpretation "tributary king" and one English scholar speculates about a tributary relationship to the Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard, who was his stepfather." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Sk%C3%B6tkonung [NB: Information sourced from Wikipedia is subject to change by third-parties. Follow the URL noted above to review the latest content.] .

  
  

• Sources

  [S327] WORLD: Find-a-Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/ [S788] WORLD: Wikipedia. https://www.wikipedia.org/