Gudfred was a ninth century Danish king who reigned from at least 804 to 810. Alternate spellings include Godfred (Danish), Göttrick (German), Gøtrik...
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be trusted, his mother may have been disowned by Gudfred in the early 9th century. In 810, Gudfred was assassinated by a housecarl, or, in Notker's version...
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successor of King Gudfred, his uncle. Hemming I is mentioned in the Royal Frankish Annals as son to an unnamed brother of Gudfred. Though Gesta Hammaburgensis...
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804 when another ruler, Gudfred, is mentioned in the Frankish annals. Nothing is known about Sigfred's relationship to Gudfred, who succeeded him as king...
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Denmark c. 828 to 854. Son of Gudfred. Harald Klak, 812 to 813 and 819 to 827, a period of civil war with the sons of Gudfred. Nephew of an earlier Harald...
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cataclysmic Battle of Leuven (891), two Danish vikings named Sigfred and Gudfred were reported to have been killed by the East Frankish king Arnulf of Carinthia...
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Since the Houses of Gudfred and Harald often bore the same names (such as Gudfred and Hemming) they were probably related. Gudfred's nephew and successor...
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consistently referred to in Frankish sources as kings (reges). Under the reign of Gudfred in 804 the Danish kingdom may have included all the lands of Jutland, Scania...
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where King Harald reigned ("Daniae Regi Heraldi"). Sigfred: 770s–790s Gudfred: 804–810, mentioned as Danish king in the Treaty of Heiligen 811. Alternate...
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written sources, work on the Danevirke was started by the Danish King Gudfred in 808. Fearing an invasion by the Franks, who had conquered heathen Frisia...
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uncertain if they were connected to Gudfred. Charlemagne sent an army to secure Frisia while he led a force against Gudfred, who had reportedly challenged...
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when he and his brothers were ousted by the sons of a previous king, Gudfred. He was probably a son of Halfdan, a Danish leader who became a vassal...
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drowned in the hundreds or thousands, and the Danish kings Sigfred and Gudfred were among the slain. It has been guessed that Sigfred is identical with...
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some late Frisian sources) as "kings" (reges). Under the rule of King Gudfred in 804 the Kingdom may have included all the major provinces of medieval...
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Charlemagne in 807. King Hemming, nephew of Gudfred, died in 812 after a short reign. Another nephew of Gudfred, Sigfred, wished to succeed him but was immediately...
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They were Rørik and Gudfred, nephew and son of the former king Harald Klak, who were probably distant relatives of the Gudfred clan. They therefore had...
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Frisia into Nobility, Freemen, Serfs and Slaves. In 810 the Danish king Gudfred let a fleet consisting of 200 ships invade Frisia, and claiming the territory...
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Danish control. It was destroyed in 808 AD by the Viking (Danish) king Gudfred. The destroyed place was rebuilt by the Obodrites and continued to operate...
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Norse personal name Guðrøðr, also Anglicised as Godred) may refer to: Gudfred (r. 804–810), Danish king, son of King Sigfred Guthred, king of Northumbria...
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order to encounter the ongoing invasions led by King Sigfred's successor Gudfred, the Franks probably established a Danish march stretching from the Eider...
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Godfrid may refer to: Gudfred (died 810), king of the Danes Godfrid Haraldsson (820–56), son of King Harald Klak in Jutland Godfrid, Duke of Frisia (died...
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(in periods ruling jointly with others) 812: Civil war c. 800–810: King Gudfred c. 714: Ongendus king Danish kingship documented from the 8th century,...
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during these decades. After the death of the Viking rulers Sigfred and Gudfred at the battle of Leuven in 891, Denmark was, according to Adam of Bremen...
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report a King Gudfred, who appeared in present-day Holstein with a navy in 804 where diplomacy took place with the Franks; In 808, King Gudfred attacked the...
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the legendary figures of Holgar “the Dane” and Estrid, daughter of King Gudfred of Denmark.[citation needed] Hiallt is considered an ancestor of Tancred...
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the Carolingians and later the Frankish empire. The Vikings—led by King Gudfred—destroyed the Obotrite city of Reric on the southern Baltic coast in 808...
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and Gudfred destroyed the town and forced the merchants to resettle at Hedeby (in Danevirke). In 810, Thrasco was murdered by a vassal of Gudfred in Reric...
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around 810 CE, following rulership claims by the ambitious Danish King Gudfred over the territory north of the Elbe, which was at the time part of Saxony...
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chief Sigurd and the maternal grandson of the historical King Götrik (i.e. Gudfred, d. 810). Backed by the men of Zealand and Skåne, he fights a civil war...
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the Frankish armies that responded to the incursion of the Danish king Gudfred. Charlemagne's succession plans did not come to fruition. Pepin of Italy...
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