User:ObRoy/Duke Eric
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Presents the descent of Eric, Duke of Sudermannia from the first Duke of Normandy, a Scandinavian conqueror, the first Scandinavan to hold the same title, Duke, Eric was having and using in Sweden.
[edit] Descent from Norman Dukes
Ragnvald Eysteinsson, Earl of Moer m Helga Rolfsdottir Nevja
legendarily father (parents) of:
Rollo of Rouen, Robert I, Duke of Normandy m Poppa of Bayeux
Richard I, Duke of Normandy m Gunnor the Danish
Richard II, Duke of Normandy m Judith of Brittany
daughter of Normandy m Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders
Judith of Flanders m Welf IV, Duke of Bavaria
Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria m Wulfhild of Saxony, granddaughter of Ulvhild Olafsdottir of Norway, legendarily of the Ynglinga line
Henry X, Duke of Bavaria m Gertrud of Supplinburg, of Saxony
Henry the Lion, Duke of Bavaria and Duke of Saxony, with his concubine Ida von Bliescastel. Ida descended from William VII, Duke of Aquitaine, himself descendant of Rollo's daughter
bastard daughter: Mechtild of the Welfs m Henry Borwin I of Mecklenburg
Henry Borwin II of Mecklenburg m Christina of Sweden
John I of Mecklenburg (Wismar) m Luitgard of Henneberg
Elisabeth of Mecklenburg m Gerhard I, Count of Holstein
Helvig of Holstein m Magnus III of Sweden (Magnus Ladulas)
Eric, Duke of Sudermannia m Ingeborg of Norway
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Eric's wife and Valdemar's wife descended from Jutta of Saxony, a Babenberg descendant, whose ancestress Agnes of Waiblingen descended, through dukes of Aquitaine, from daughter of Rollo.
