IVAR ARNLJOTSSON

• Preferred Name: IVAR ARNLJOTSSON
  
• Gender: M
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Hirdmann-Ivar-Kvite-Opplendingejarl/6000000002325851160?through=6000000003645772914
  
• Death: AFT 1065 in Sørum, Romerike, Norway at LATI: N0.1167 LONG: E1.1667
  
• Birth: 995 in Vågå, Oppland, Norway at LATI: N1.8486 LONG: E0.1211
  
• Nationality: Ivar the Boneless is Danish son of Ragnar Lodbrok. He is not the same as Ivar the White from Norway. with note: Ivar the Boneless, Old Scandinavian Ivar inn beinlausi, Ivar also spelled Ivarr, Inguar, or Inwaer, (died 873, Dublin [Ireland]), Viking chieftain, of Danish origin, whose life story is suffused with legend. He is best known for his exploits on the British Isles, most notably his invasion, in the company of two brothers, of several Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Unlike previous Viking raiders who came only to plunder, Ivar sought conquest. Ivar was said to be the son of the Danish king Ragnar Lothbrok, but details of his early life are largely unknown. According to some accounts, he was a leader of the Sheppey expedition of 855 that occupied an isle near the mouth of the River Thames. He is also recorded as the companion of Olaf the White, known to history as the Danish king of Dublin, in several battles on the island of Ireland during the 850s. Ivar and Olaf formed short-lived alliances with certain Irish rulers, including Cerball, king of Ossory, and campaigned and plundered in the county of Meath in the early 860s. Ivar and his brothers Halfdan and Hubba invaded Great Britain in the year 865 at the head of a large Viking force described by fearful Christians as the “Great Heathen Army.” The brothers’ motivation was to avenge their father, who had died after being captured while raiding the kingdom of Northumbria. Ragnar supposedly had been cast into a pit full of venomous snakes by order of the Northumbrian king Aella. Ivar’s forces landed in the kingdom of East Anglia, where they met little resistance, and moved on to Northumbria, where they captured the capital city of York in 866. Aella and Osbert, the Northumbrian king whom Aella had deposed, were not captured then, but, in a second battle, in March 867, both were killed. According to some accounts, the vengeful Vikings subjected Aella to a parti
  
• FSID: LBZW-B94
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Hirdmann IVAR WHITE (Kvite) Opplandingejarl Opplendingejarl is not a part of his name. It means that he was a Jarl, or important person or Governor in the governing of Oppland, a county in Norway. Hirdmann is a title for men who were attendants to the King.
  
  Information from Geni Website which may or may not be accurate!
  Ivar Kvite Jarl Opplendingejarl (Arnljotsson)
  Also Known As: "Jarnskjeggesson"
  Birthdate: circa 999
  Birthplace: Oppland Nord Trondelag, Norge (Norway)
  Death: circa 1027 (19-37)
  Immediate Family:
  Son of Arnljot Haakonsson and Sigrid Haakonsdatter
  Husband of Thora av Upplands
  Father of Hakon Ivarsson
  
  by Marcia Lee

• m. ABT 1039 in Oppland, Norway

1. Haakon I Ivarsson, b. 1029 in Oppland, Norway     d. 1079 in Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom