King of Norway Sigurd (Jorsalfar) Magnusson I 
Sigurd, known as Jorsalfar, was born about 1094 in Bergen, Norway.1 Jorsalfar's father was King Magnus (Barefoot) Olafsson of Norway and his mother was Margareta Ingesdatter. His paternal grandparents were King Olaf Haraldsson Kyrre of Norway and <Unknown>; his maternal grandparents were King of Sweden Inge Stenkilsson I and Queen Helena Torildsdatter Blot-Sven of Sweden. He had four brothers and a sister, named Olav, Oystein, Sigurd, Harald and Ragnhild. He was the second oldest of the six children. He died in 1130 in Bergen, Norway.2 General Notes
Sigurd I of Norway
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Sigurd I Magnusson (1089?-1130), nicknamed Sigurd Jorsalfar (Sigurd the Crusader) was king of Norway 1103-1130.
In 1098, he accompanied his father, Magnus, on his expedition to the Orkney Islands, the and the Western Lands. He was made Jarl of Orkney in that year, following the removal of the incumbent Earl. He was also, apparently made King of Man and the Isles in that year as well, following Magnus's overthrow of their king.
It is not known whether he returned with Magnus to Norway after the 1098 expedition, but when in 1002 Magnus returned west, he was present in Orkney. A marriage alliance was negogiated between Muirchertach Ua Briain, the leading king in Ireland at the time and ruler of Dublin, and Magnus, and Sigrud was to marry Muirchertach's daughter. However in 1103 when Magnus was killed in Ulaid, the fourteen year old Sigrud returned to Norway, leaving his child-bride behind.
When he returned to Norway, he became king together with his brothers Øystein and Olav.
1107-1110 he left Norway to lead a Norwegian contingent in the Crusade. He fought in Lisbon, various Mediterranean islands and Palestine, and visited Sicily, Jerusalem (Jorsalaland) and Constantinople. From this he got his nicknames.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0935
- b.0969 d.1018
<Unknown>
- b.1015 in Hedemark, Norway d.25 Sep 1066 in Yorkshire, England
- b.0923 in Norway
- b.0970 in Vestfold, Norway
- b.0927 in Norway
- b.~ 1045 in Hedemark, Norway d.1093 in Bergen, Norway
- b.0960 in Kiev, Ukraine d.15 Jul 1015 in Kiev, Ukraine
- b.0979 in Kiev, Ukraine d.20 Feb 1053 in Kiev, Ukraine
- b.0962 in Polotsk, Byelorussia d.1002
- b.1022 in Kiev, Ukraine
- b.0950 in Sweden d.1022
- b.1001 in Uppsala, Sweden d.10 Feb 1049 in Kiev, Ukraine
- b.0979 in Sweden
- b.1073 in Bergen, Norway d.1103 in Ireland
<Unknown>
- b.~ 1094 in Bergen, Norway d.1130 in Bergen, Norway
- b.0950 in Sweden d.1022
- b.0970 in Vestgotland, Sweden d.1066
- b.0985 in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany
- b.1025 in Uppsala, Sweden d.1066
- b.0930 in Halogaland, Norway d.Sep 1011
- b.0985 in Altensen, Vefsenfjord, Nordland, Norway d.1066 in Vestgotland, Sweden
<Unknown>- b.0945 in Norway
- b.1050 in Uppsala, Sweden d.1112
- b.0950 in Sweden d.1022
- b.1005 in Sweden d.1060
- b.0985 in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany
- b.1023 in Uppsala, Sweden
- b.0975 in Sweden
- b.1000 in Sweden
<Unknown>
- b.~ 1076 in Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden d.04 Nov 1130 in Cathedral, Roskilde, Roskilde, Denmark
<Unknown>
- b.1020 in Uppsala, Sweden
<Unknown>
- b.1070 in Uppsala, Sweden d.1134 in Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
<Unknown>
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Details of Jorsalfar's family with Muirchertach Ua Briain
1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=clcaldwell&id=I26362&style=TABLE
2 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=clcaldwell&id=I26366
2 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=clcaldwell&id=I26366
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