Moddan Douglas

• Preferred Name: Moddan Douglas^{[1] [2]}
  
• Alternate Name: Moddan of Dalr
  
• Gender: M
  
• Occupation: Rich farmer
  
• FSID: G72Y-4GB
  
• Death: 1120 in Caithness, Scotland at LATI: N8.4167 LONG: E3.5
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Mormaer (Earl) of Caithness
  
• Birth: ABT 1046 in Caithness, Scotland at LATI: N8.4167 LONG: E3.5
  
• Burial: 1120 in Scotland
  
• Notes:

  === !"The Book of McKee," pg 264; ===
  !"The Book of McKee," pg 264;
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === !Title: Earl of Caithness. From Ancestra ===
  !Title: Earl of Caithness. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === Source: Title: Burke's Peerage & Baronet ===
  Source: Title: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, CharlesMosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 Page: 469
  
  === "The Book of McKee," pg 264; ===
  "The Book of McKee," pg 264;
  
  === Name Prefix: Earl
  Name Suffix: Name Prefix: Earl
  Name Suffix: Of Caithness
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  === From: Bryn Fraser From: Bryn Fraser
  Newsgroups: soc.culture.scottish
  Subject: Death of Earl Hakon
  Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:59:09 +0100
  
  At the time Earl Hakon ruled Orkney there was a farmer called Moddan, A rich and well-born man, living in the Dales of Caithness. His three daughters were called Helga, Frakokk and Thorlief. Helga Moddans- Daughter was Earl Hakon's mistress and they had a son Harald, nicknamed Smooth-Tongue, and two daughters, one called Ingibjorg who married Olaf Tit-Bit, King of the Hebrides, and the other called Margaret.
  
  Frakokk Moddan's-Daughter was married to a man in Sutherland called Ljot the Renegade. They had a a daughter, Steinor the Stout, who married Thorljot of Rack wick. Their sons were Olvir Brawl, Magnus, Orm, Moddan and Eindrridi, and they also had a daughter Audhild. Farkokk had yet another daughter, Gudrun, who married Thorstein the Yeoman, called the Whistler, and their son was Thorstein the Clerk.
  
  Earl Hakon had another son, Paul, nicknamed the Silent, a reserved man and well-liked, though he got on badly with his brother once they grew up.
  
  Earl Hakon Paulsson died in his bed in Orkney and his death was felt to be a great loss, his latter years having been very peaceful. The farmers had grave doubts as to how the brothers Paul and Harald would get on together.
  
  Orkneyinga Saga
  
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  Moddan, Earl of Caithness, was killed in 1040. His mother, daughter of Bethoc, must have been born after 1002. If she was married at seventeen, her son Earl Moddan could not have been more than twenty when killed in 1040, and any son of his must have been born by 1041 at the latest. This son may have been Moddan in Dale. Dale was the valley of the upper Thurso River, the only great valley of Caithness, and the Saga states as follows: -
  
  Moddan 'then dwelt in Dale in Caithness, a man of rank and very wealthy,' and 'his son Ottar was jarl in Thurso.' Frakark, a daughter of Moddan in Dale, was the wife of Liot Nidingr, or the Dastard, a Sudrland chief, and during the half century after Thorfinn's death Moddan's family seems to have owned much of Caithness and Sutherland, where the Norse steadily lost their hold. [Sutherland and Caithness p53]
  
  === : NAME Moddan (Maddan) Earl Of /CAITHNES ===
  : NAME Moddan (Maddan) Earl Of /CAITHNESS/ !: SOUR AUTH The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints TITL Ancestral File(TM) PUBL June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998 REPO @R01@
  
  === !#21-v2-p473*; #189-v3-p240; ===
  !#21-v2-p473*; #189-v3-p240;
  
  === !#21-v2-p473; !#189-v2-p314; ===
  !#21-v2-p473; !#189-v2-p314;

• m. ABT 1063 in Of, , Caithness, Scotland

1. Frakok Thorleif Moddansdattir, b. 1064 in Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland     d. 1138
2. Helga Countess of Orkney And Caithnes, b. 1070 in Scotland     d. 1103 in Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland
3. Torleiv Moddansdattir, b. ABT 1082 in Europe    

1. Title: The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe
   Author: Moddan of Dale in Caithness: ID #198277
   Publication: Name: http://www.thepeerage.com/p19828.htm#i198277;
   
2. Title: Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition
   Publication: Name: http://thepeerage.com/p19828.htm#i198277;