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Birth:          ABT 1035 Northumbria

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I19902
from Ruthven Clan website:

Burke's Peerage reminds us that the Ruthvens were a pretty violent lot, as you might 
expect from our beginning with a (Swedish?) Viking pirate, Sven, long about the 
1100s, who pirated off the E. coast of Scotland. Tired of all that commuting, he 
settled down in what was to be the St Andrews/Perth area and dispatched the natives 
for trespassing on their own land. Sven wasn't clearly a born-again Christian, because 
he named his son, Thor, after a Norse god, from whom we have the day, Thurs-day. 
(Certainly the later "Christian" Ruthvens didn't behave much better than these guys.)

Thor, in turn, had three sons, one of whom took the name, "Ruthven," according to 
one theory, from the land he lived on. The name, "Ros/rot-fen," means, according to 
some, "red fen" or, "red swamp." Another theory is that it means "Ros/rot-sven" ("red 
Swede") from the similar Norse (North)men believed to have been the "Rus" (the 
Reds!--seriously), founders of Russia in the 8th/9th century.

Parents
____ Leofwine (BEF 1000 - )
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Siblings
OF NORTHUMBRIA Sweyn (ABT 1035 - )

Marriage To ----- ----- ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- ----- 
SWEYNSSON Thor (Thorlongus) (BEF 1067 - AFT 1127)

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