Paul II "Silent" Hakonsson 25th Jarl of Orkney 
Paul II "Silent" Hakonsson 25th Jarl of was born about 1093 in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Paul II "Silent" Hakonsson 25th Jarl of's father was Hakon "Imperious" Paulson 23rd Jarl of Orkney and his mother was First Wife. His paternal grandparents were Paul Thorfinnsson 20th Jarl of Paul , Jarl of Orkney/Orkney and Ragnhild Hakonsdottir. He had a half-brother and three half-sisters, named Harald "Slettmali" 26th Jarl of, Agatha, Ingibiorg Hakonsdottir of and Margaret Hakonsdottir of. He died after 1137.General Notes
EARLDOM of ORKNEY [NOR] - subject to King of Norway until after 1379
PAUL II Hakonsson the Silent (? 1126-1137) divided the Orkneys with his brother Harald, and after his death (? 1131) rook all the Orkneys and Caithness and banished his mother and her sister Frakok to the latterís estates in Helmsdale in Sutherland. Paul held the whole of both Earldoms, but in 1135 Jarl Kali-Ragnvald III asked Paul II to surrender St. Magnusís half of the Orkneys. Paul refused and in 1136 Ragnvald seized the Shetlands. He was helped by Frakokís grandson, Olvi Riot (to whom he had offered Jarl Paulís half of Orkney in return for alliance against him); but Olvi Riot was defeated at Tankarness (? 26 June 1136), and on 27 June Ragnvaldís men were defeated in Yell Sound. In the autumn Ragnvald returned to Norway, but next summer (1137) he again seized the Shetlands and captured Westray in the Orkneys. Paul agreed to a truce and surrendered half Orkney, but was captured while otter-hunting by his own warden in Caithness, Sweyn Asleifsson (whose father Olaf Hrolfsson had been burned in his house by Olvi Riot), and was carried off to the house of his brother-in-law Maddad or Madach, Earl of Atholl, husband of Margaret. Paul was thus deposed, and never returned to any of his dominions. He is not recorded to have married or had issue. [Complete Peerage, X:Appendix A:18-19]
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- b.~ 0965 in Orkney Islands, Scotland d.23 Apr 1014 in Battle at Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland
- b.~ 1009 in Orkney Islands, Scotland d.~ 1065 in Christchurch, Birsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland
- b.~ 0980 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1038 in Orkney Islands, Scotland d.1099 in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway (in captivity)
- b.~ 1001 in Yriar, Austratt, Norway d.1062 in Halland
- b.~ 1023 in Yriar, Austratt, Norway d.< 1069 in Scotland
- b.0995 in Stein, Norway
- b.~ 1006 in Norway
- b.~ 1070 in Orkney Islands, Scotland d.1126 in Orkney Islands, Scotland
- b.0999 in Hviti, Uplands, Norway
- b.~ 1025 in Uplands, Vestfold, Norway d.1079
- b.~ 1000 in Norway
- b.~ 1054 in Uplands, Vestfold, Norway
- b.~ 0995 in Norway d.31 Aug 1030 in Slain fighting King Canute of England at Stiklestad
- b.~ 1018 in Norway d.25 Oct 1047
- b.1000 in Sweden
- b.~ 1037 in Norway
- b.~ 1093 in Orkney Islands, Scotland d.> 1137
- b.~ 1075 in Scotland d.< 1094
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