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Birth:          1011 Orkney, Orkney Islands
Death:          Dec 1046 Papa Stronsay, Orkney Islands, Orkney

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I01196
NORSE PREDECESSORS of the EARLS of ORKNEY - subject to King of Norway until 
after 1379

Ragnvald II Brusisson, Jarl of two-thirds at Orkney Autumn 1038, b. 1011. He was 
taken by his father to Norway in the spring of 1021 and left as a hostage with St. Olaf 
(1021-1028), attended him into exile at Novgorod, returned with him to Norway, and 
was defeated with him at the battle of Stikklestad (29 July 1030); but he escaped to 
Sweden with St. Olaf’s half-brother Harald Hardradi, then aged about fifteen and 
wounded in the battle. Thence in the spring of 1031 they went to Novgorod, where 
the Grand Duke Yaroslav made Harold, Ragnvald and his son Eilif, officers in his 
guard (Landvarnar-madr). Ragnvald, who "had the wardership of the land in the 
summers but was in Holmgard (Novgorod) in the winters," returned to Norway with 
Magnus the Good (then aged 11), son of St. Olaf, in 1036. As a result of the quarrel 
which ended this alliance, Jarl Ragnvald was killed by Thorfinn’s chief minister, 
Thorkel Fosterer, in Dec. 1046. His wife’s name is not recorded. He had a son Eilif 
abovenamed, who does not appear ever to have claimed a share of Orkney. [Complete 
Peerage, X:Appendix A:14]

Parents
SIGURDSON Brusi (ABT  988 - AFT 31 Aug 1030)
REGNWALDSDOTTIR Ostrida ()

Siblings
BRUSISSON Rognvald (1011 - Dec 1046)

Marriage To OF ORKNEY Arlogia (ABT 1013 - )
    m.  

Notes


Children by OF ORKNEY Arlogia ABT 1013 - 
DE BRUS Robert (ABT 1030 - ABT 1090)

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