General Notes

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The following is excerpted from a post by Stewart Baldwin, 18 Nov 1996:

From: Stewart Baldwin (sbald@auburn.campus.mci.net)
Subject: Danish kings, 8th & 9th centuries
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
Date: 1996/11/18

Godefrid, son of Harald [AB 852], an unsuccessful claimant to the
     Danish throne in 855.  He attacked Frisia in 852 [AB], and then
     made peace with Charles the Bald in 853 [AB].  With his kinsman
     Rorik (see below), he went to Denmark in 855 [AB], in an attempt
     to gain power there after the civil war of 854, but their
     attempts were unsuccessful, and they returned to their base in
     Dorestad.  It is not clear whether this Godefrid is the same
     person as the Danish Viking of that name who was active in the
     period 882-885, married Gisla (daughter of Lothar II) in 882, was
     granted lands which Rorik had previously held, and was killed in
     885.  [See AF 882-5].