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Birth:          ABT  820 of Frisia, Jutland
Death:           879 

Notes
Stuart show bc 845 but states Halfdan died in 830. But 845 is too late a date for 
Rurik's birth and I had already stepped it back to 830.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurik
Rurik or Riurik (Old Church Slavonic: ?????, from Rørik; c. 830 – 879) was a 
legendary Varangian chieftain who gained control of Ladoga in 862, built the 
Holmgard settlement near Novgorod, and founded the Rurik Dynasty, which ruled 
Kievan Rus (and later the Grand Duchy of Moscow and Tsardom of Russia) until the 
17th century.
There is a debate over how Rurik came to control Ladoga and Novgorod.[citation 
needed] The only information about him is contained in the 12th-century Primary 
Chronicle, which states that Chuds, Eastern Slavs, Merias, Veses, and Krivichs 
"...drove the Varangians back beyond the sea, refused to pay them tribute, and set 
out to govern themselves". Afterwards the tribes started fighting each other and 
decided to invite the Varangians, led by Rurik, to reestablish order.

According to the Primary Chronicle, Rurik was one of the Rus, a Varangian tribe 
likened by the chronicler to Danes, Swedes, Angles, and Gotlanders. In the 20th 
century, archaeologists partly corroborated the chronicle's version of events,[1]
[clarification needed] but mostly the excavations denied most of the chronicle's data 
about Rurik's arrival when it was apparent that the old settlement stretched to the 
mid-8th century and the excavated objects were mostly of Finno-Ugric and Slavic 
origin, dated to the mid-8th century, which showed the settlement was not 
Scandinavian from the beginning.[2][page needed]

Rurik remained in power until his death in 879. His successors (the Rurik Dynasty), 
however, moved the capital to Kiev and founded the state of Kievan Rus', which 
persisted until the Mongol invasion in 1240. A number of extant princely families are 
patrilineally descended from Rurik, although the last Rurikid to rule Russia, Vasily IV, 
died in 1612.[citation needed]

According to the entries in the Radzivil and Hypatian Chronicles[3] under the years 
862–864, Rurik’s first residence was in Ladoga. It is only later that he moved his seat 
of power to Novgorod, a fort built not far from the source of the Volkhov River. The 
meaning of this place name in medieval Russian is 'new fortification', while the current 
meaning ('new city') appeared only later.
Possible identity with Rorik of Dorestad[edit]

Main article: Rorik of Dorestad


 



Rorik of Dorestad, as conceived by H. W. Koekkoek

The only similarly named figure described in Western chronicles was Rorik of Dorestad 
(also spelled Rørik, Rörik, Roerik, Hrörek, etc.), a Germanic king from the royal 
Scylding house of Haithabu in the Jutland Peninsula (then in Denmark, today within 
Germany). Since the 19th century, there have been attempts to identify him with the 
Rurik of Russian chronicles.

Rorik of Dorestad was born about ca. 810–820 to Ali Anulo, 9th king of Haithabu. 
Frankish chroniclers mention that he received lands in Friesland from Emperor Louis I. 
This was not enough for him, and he started to plunder neighbouring lands: he took 
Dorestad in 850, captured Haithabu in 857, and looted Bremen in 859. The Emperor 
was enraged and stripped him of all his possessions in 860. After that, Rorik 
disappears from the Western sources for a considerable period of time, while only two 
years later, in 862, the Russian chronicle's Rurik arrives in the eastern Baltic, builds 
the fortress of Ladoga, and later moves to Novgorod.

Rorik of Dorestad reappeared in Frankish chronicles in 870, when his Friesland 
demesne was returned to him by Charles the Bald; in 882 Rorik of Dorestad is 
mentioned as dead (without a date of death specified). The Russian chronicle places 
the death of Rurik of Novgorod at 879, a three year gap prior than the Frankish 
chronicles. According to Western sources, the ruler of Friesland was converted to 
Christianity by the Franks. This may have parallels with the Christianization of the 
Rus', as reported by Patriarch Photius in 867.

The idea of identifying Rurik, a legendary figure, with the historical Rorik of Dorestad 
was revived by the anti-Normanists Boris Rybakov and Anatoly H. Kirpichnikov in the 
mid-20th century,[4] while modern scholars like Alexander Nazarenko object to it.[5] 
The hypothesis of their identity currently lacks support among scholars,[6] though 
support for a "Normanic" (i.e. Norse, rather than Slavic) origin of the Rus' has 
increased.

Rurikid dynasty[edit]

The Rurikid dynasty went on to rule the Kievan Rus', and ultimately the Tsardom of 
Muscovy, until 1598. Numerous noble Russian and Ruthenian families claim a male-
line descent from Rurik, and via Anne of Kiev, wife of Henry I of France, Rurikid 
ancestry can also be argued for numerous Western European lineages.[citation 
needed]

Vasily Tatishchev (a Rurikid himself) claimed that Rurik was of Wendish extraction 
and went so far as to name Rurik's wife, Ufanda of Norway (Endvinda? Alfrind?); 
mother, Umila; his maternal grandfather, Gostomysl; and a cousin, Vadim (apparently 
basing his account on the lost Ioachim Chronicle).[citation needed]

Genetic investigation[edit]

According to the FamilyTreeDNA Rurikid Dynasty DNA Project, Rurik appears to have 
belonged to Y-DNA haplogroup N1c1, based on testing of his modern purported male-
line descendants.[7] N1c1 is not widely found in Scandinavian countries, but is 
overwhelmingly found among Baltic and Finnish ethnicities. The N1c1 haplotype 
possess the distinctive value DYS390=23, also rarely found in Scandinavia.[citation 
needed] The closest relatives of the Rurikid haplotype are found in coastal Finland,[8] 
but Jaakko Häkkinen with the University of Helsinki has later argued that the Rurikid 
N1c1 lineage can in fact be traced back to Scandinavia.[9]


Parents
RAGNARSSON Bjorn "Ironside" (ABT  780 - )
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Siblings
BJORNSSON Refil ()
OF KIEV Rurik (ABT  820 -  879)

Marriage To OF NOVGOROD Efenda (ABT  850 - )
    m.  

Notes


Children by OF NOVGOROD Efenda ABT  850 - 
____ Igor I ( 877 -  945)

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