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Birth:          ABT 1040  Orkney Islands
Death:          1099 Bergen, Hordaland, Norway

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I10064
Paul, Jarl of Orkney and apparently Jt Earl of Caithness. [Burke's Peerage]

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EARLDOM of CAITHNESS (II) 1056? (both Paul & Erlend, co-Earls)

NORSE PREDECESSORS of the EARLS of ORKNEY - subject to King of Norway until 
after 1379

Paul I and Erlend II, sons of Thorfinn II, joint Jarls of Orkney and Earls of Caithness, 
(?) 1057 or (?) 1065-1098, when they were deposed and imprisoned by King Magnus 
Barelegs. "They were tall men and fair, and both more after their mother’s side. They 
were men wise and meek." In the summer of 1066 King Harald Hardradi arrived with a 
fleet from Norway and raised men in Orkney for his invasion of England. He started 
south with one or both Jarls. He or they stayed with the ships during the battle of 
Stamford Bridge (25 Sep. 1066) and survived to return to Orkney with Hardradi’s 
second son, Olaf Kyrri (King of Norway 1067-1093), their second cousin, who stayed 
with them for the winter. The two Jarls ruled their Earldoms peacefully in "agreement 
great and good," until their sons grew up and caused much trouble by their quarrels. 
In the spring of 1098 King Magnus III Barelegs (1093-1103), son of King Olaf III Kyrri, 
came with a large fleet to Orkney and deposed the two Jarls in order to give Orkney to 
his son Sigurd (afterwards King Sigurd Jorsalafari the Crusader) (1103/1122-1130), 
whom he made King of Orkney and the Isles (the Nordreys and Sudreys). They both 
died in captivity, Paul at Bergen and Erlend at Nidaros. The news of this was brought 
to King Magnus Barelegs when he reached Orkney 1099.

Jarl Paul m. a dau, of Hakon Ivarsson (great-grandson through his grandmother of Jarl 
Hakon the Great, ruler of Norway 976-995), Captain of the Coast Defence in Denmark 
under King Sweyn Estrithsson (circa 1048-1050) and Jarl of the Uplands in Norway 
under King Harald Hardradi (circa 1054-1064), by Ragnhild (m. 1050), da, of Magnus I 
the Good, King of Norway (1036-1047). He had issue Hakon, afterwards Jarl, and four 
daughters. Jarl Erlend m. Thora, dau. of Somerled Uspaksson, a descendant on the 
distaff side of Hrollaug, the brother of Jarl Turf-Einar (see ante, p. 4, note "h"), and 
had issue Erling, and Magnus, afterwards Jarl, and two daughters. Thora m., 2ndly, 
Sigurd of Paplay. [Complete Peerage, X:Appendix A:14-6]
died in captivity

Parents
SIGURDSSON Thorfinn II "the Black" (1009 - 1064)
FINNSDOTTIR Ingeborg (ABT 1023 - BEF 1069)

Siblings
THORFINNSON Paul (ABT 1040 - 1099)

Marriage To HAAKONSDOTTIR Ragnhild (ABT 1054 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
IVARSSON Haakon (ABT 1025 - 1079)
MAGNUSDOTTIR Ragnhild (ABT 1037 - )

Children by HAAKONSDOTTIR Ragnhild ABT 1054 - 
PAULSON Haakon (Haco) ("Imperious") (ABT 1070 - 1126)

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