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Family of Harald + GUDRODSSON and Asta + BUDBRANDSDATTER

Husband: Harald + GUDRODSSON (960-995)
Wife: Asta + BUDBRANDSDATTER (970- )
Children: Olaf II + HARALDSSON (995-1030)

Husband: Harald + GUDRODSSON

Name: Harald + GUDRODSSON
Sex: Male
Nickname: Grenske
Father: Gudrod + BJORNSSON (932-963)
Mother: Cecilie + (936- )
Birth 0960 Vestvold, Norway
Death 0995 (age 34-35)
Cause: murdered on the orders of Sigrid, widow of Erik, King of Sweden

Wife: Asta + BUDBRANDSDATTER

Name: Asta + BUDBRANDSDATTER
Sex: Female
Father: Gudbrand + OLAFSSON (923- )
Mother: Ulfhild + (927- )
Birth 0970 Vestvold, Norway

Child 1: Olaf II + HARALDSSON

Name: Olaf II + HARALDSSON
Sex: Male
Spouse 1: Alfhild + (1002-1024)
Spouse 2: Astrid + OLOFSDOTTIR (999-1035)
Birth 0995 Ringerike, Buskerud, Norway
Christening 0998 (age 2-3) Rouen
Occupation King of Norway
Title frm 1016 to 1028 (age 20-33) King of Norway
Death 29 Jul 1030 (age 34-35) Stiklestad, Norway

Note on Husband: Harald + GUDRODSSON

HARALD "Grenske" ([947]-murdered 995). The Historia Norwegie names "Haroldum Grensca" as son of "Gudrodus", commenting that he acquired his nickname from having been brought up "in Grenlandia"[240]. Snorre names Harald as son of Gudröd & his wife, recording that, after his father's death, he fled to the Uplands and from there eastwards into Svithjod[241]. He supported the invasion of Norway by Harald King of Denmark in 965, and was rewarded with Vingulmark, Vestfold and Agder with the title of king[242]. He was murdered on the orders of Sigrid "Storrada/the Haughty", widow of Erik King of Sweden, to whom Harald "Grenske" proposed marriage (despite already being married to Asta)[243]. m as her first husband, ASTA Gudbransdatter, daughter of GUDBRAND Kula. The Historia Norwegie records the marriage of "Haroldum Grensca" and "Asta filiam Gudbrandi Culu", and her second marriage to "Siwardus Scroffa rex montanus" who was the son of Halfdan, son of "Siwardus Risi…filius Haraldi Comati"[244]. She and her father are also named by Snorre, which also records both her marriages[245]. She returned to her father after learning that her husband had visited Sigrid "Storrada/the Haughty", widow of Erik King of Sweden, with a view to proposing marriage to her[246]. She married secondly Sigurd Syr King in Ringerike. Morkinskinna records that “Sigurdr sýr” married “Ásta daughter of Gudbrandr”, previously wife of “Haraldr grenski”[247]. Harald & his wife had one child: