John Haraldsson Earl of Caithness 
John Haraldsson Earl of was born in 1162 in Orkney Islands, Scotland. John Haraldsson Earl of's father was Harald II Maddadson Earl of Caithness and his mother was Gormflaeth MacHeth Countess of Orkney. His paternal grandparents were Madach (Madadd) 1st Earl of Atholl and Margaret Hakonsdottir of Orkney; his maternal grandparents were Malcolm II MacHeth 1st Earl of Ross and Sister of Somerled of the Isles. He had a half-sister named Margaret. He died at the age of 69 in 1231 in Thurso, Caithness-shire, Scotland (dspm).General Notes
John, Jarl of Orkney and Earl of Caithness, murdered by his servants in revenge for his supposed implication in the murder of the Bishop of Caithness, for which latter unlawful killing his territory was confiscated by Alexander II of Scots though restored on John's payment of a huge fine. [Burke's Peerage]
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EARLDOM of ORKNEY [NOR] - subject to King of Norway until after 1379
John I, Jarl of all Orkney 1214 to 1231. In 1218 Jarl John was present in Bergen at the ordeal of Inga of Varteig, the mother of King Hakon IV Hakonsson (1217 to 1263), whereby the Kingís paternity was established. On 11 Sep. 1222 Adam, Bishop of Caithness, was burned alive at his manor of Halkirk by parishioners who resented his exactions. For this King Alexander II severely punished the guilty, and fined the Earl. In July and August 1223 Jarl John was in Bergen, when Hakon Hakonsson was proclaimed King of Norway and the former Regent, Jarl Skule, was given the northern third of the kingdom as a fief. In the summer of 1224 Jarl John was again in Bergen to make his peace with the King, with whom there had been disputes, and had to leave as a hostage his son Harald, who was drowned in 1226, the year in which his father paid his fifth visit to Bergen. In 1231 Olaf the Black, King of Man, came to Orkney on his way to Norway, and on his return Jarl John gave him a ship called the Ox and provided twenty ships to add to the twelve which he and Uspak-Hakon, the newly appointed King of the Isles, had brought from Norway for the expedition to the Southern Hebrides; but be himself does not seem to have left his own islands. Later in the year 1231 Snaekoll Gunnisson, son of Jarl Harold Ungiís sister Ragnhild, laid claim to certain lands in Orkney and joined Hanef Ungi, son of Hrolf Kitten, the Kingís bailiff in Orkney; and in the autumn both parties went to Thurso, where Jarl John was murdered by Snaekoll. The name of his wife is not recorded. He had issue Harold, hostage in Norway 1224, drowned 1226, and Joan, taken as hostage by the King of Scots either in Aug. 1214 or in 1222; she m. Freskin of Moray, Lord of Duffus, and had issue. [Complete Peerage, X:Appendix A:27-8]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0978 in Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland d.1045 in Killed in Battle against Macbeth, who (1040) slew his son Duncan
- b.1001 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.14 Aug 1040 in Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland (killed by Macbeth)
- b.~ 0984 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.1045 in Scotland
- b.~ 1038 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.~ 0990 in Denmark d.1055 in York, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1014 in Northumbria, England d.1040
- b.~ 0998 in Bernicia, Northumbria, England
- b.~ 1085 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.~ 1152 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.1130 in Caithness-shire, Scotland d.1206 in Orkney Islands, Scotland
- b.~ 1009 in Orkney Islands, Scotland d.~ 1065 in Christchurch, Birsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland
- b.~ 1038 in Orkney Islands, Scotland d.1099 in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway (in captivity)
- b.~ 1023 in Yriar, Austratt, Norway d.< 1069 in Scotland
- b.~ 1070 in Orkney Islands, Scotland d.1126 in Orkney Islands, Scotland
- b.~ 1025 in Uplands, Vestfold, Norway d.1079
- b.~ 1054 in Uplands, Vestfold, Norway
- b.~ 1037 in Norway
- b.~ 1113 in Orkney Islands, Scotland
- b.~ 1044 in Dalr, Caithness-shire, Scotland d.1120 in Thurso, Scotland
- b.1010 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1075 in Dalr, Caithness-shire, Scotland
- b.1162 in Orkney Islands, Scotland d.1231 in Thurso, Caithness-shire, Scotland (dspm)
- b.1001 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.14 Aug 1040 in Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland (killed by Macbeth)
- b.1031 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick Castle, Northumbria, England (slain besieging)
- b.~ 1014 in Northumbria, England d.1040
- b.~ 1062 in Morayshire, Scotland d.< 1098 in Methil, Fifeshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1001 in Yriar, Austratt, Norway d.1062 in Halland
- b.~ 1023 in Yriar, Austratt, Norway d.< 1069 in Scotland
- b.~ 1006 in Norway
- b.~ 1097 in Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland d.23 Nov 1168 in Morayshire, Scotland
- b.1000 in Morayshire, Scotland d.~ 1031 in Scotland
- b.~ 1031 in Morayshire, Scotland d.17 MAR 1057/58 in Killed in Battle at Strathbogie, Scotland
- b.~ 1015 in Scotland
- b.< 1058 in Morayshire, Scotland
- b.1000 in Angusshire, Scotland
- b.1030 in Angusshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1140 in Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland
- b.1045 in Dublin, Ireland
- b.~ 1065 in Island of Islay, Western Isles, Scotland d. in Ireland
- b.1095 in Morven, Argyllshire, Scotland d.~ 1130 in Morven, Argyllshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1055 in Scotland
- b.~ 1077 in Scotland
- b.~ 1057 in Argyll, Strathclyde, Scotland
- b.~ 1120 in Morven, Argyllshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1038 in Orkney Islands, Scotland d.1099 in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway (in captivity)
- b.~ 1070 in Orkney Islands, Scotland d.1126 in Orkney Islands, Scotland
- b.~ 1054 in Uplands, Vestfold, Norway
- b.~ 1095 in Orkney Islands, Scotland
- b.~ 1044 in Dalr, Caithness-shire, Scotland d.1120 in Thurso, Scotland
- b.~ 1075 in Dalr, Caithness-shire, Scotland
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