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Estrid of the Obotrites
- Preferred Name: Estrid of the Obotrites [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
- Gender: F
- Death: 1035 in Uppsala, Uppsala, Suède at LATI: N9.85 LONG: E7.6333
- Birth: um 0976 in Suède at LATI: N2 LONG: E5 with note: calculated
- Burial: 1035 in Götene, Västra Götaland, Suède at LATI: N8.5511 LONG: E3.4787
- Christening: 1008 in Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, Centre-Val de Loire, France at LATI: N8.4475 LONG: E0.4867
- FSID: L8WB-D2Z
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrid_of_the_Obotrites
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Update: 1/22/22
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Obotrites-1
Parents and siblings
The names of her parents are not known by any reliable sources.
Different sources tell us she is said to been a Slavic princess, or the daughter of a Obotrik prince and native of Mecklenburg., or daughter of tribal chief of the Polabian Obotrites.
We do not know anything about her family orwhere she came, but we can, on good grounds, assume that she was the Wikipedia:
She was most likely given by her father, a tribal chief of the Polabian Obotrites, as a peace offering in a marriage to seal the peace, and she is thought to have brought with her a great dowry, as a great Slavic influence is represented in Sweden from her time, mainly among craftsmen.
BIO
BIO: Queen of Sweden.
** from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SWEDEN.htm#IngigerdOlafsddied1050 as of 4/26/2016
ESTRED of the Obotrites, daughter of ---. Adam of Bremen names "filiamque Sclavorum
=== THE NAMES OF ESTRID'S PARENTS ARE NOT KN ===
THE NAMES OF ESTRID'S PARENTS ARE NOT KNOWN!
"ESTRID of the Obotrites was a Viking-age Swedish queen and West Slavic princess, MARRIED TO Olof Skötkonung."
"LEGEND says that Estrid was taken back to Sweden from a war in the West Slavic area of Mecklenburg as a war-prize. She was most likely given by HER FATHER, >a tribal chief of the Polabian Obotrites<, as a peace offering in a marriage to seal the peace, and she is thought to have brought with her a great dowry."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrid_of_the_Obotrites
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Preferred Parents:
Father: Prins Mieceslas av Obotriterna III, b. um 0950
Mother: Marguerite , b. ABT 950
Family 1: Olof Skötkonung King av Sverige, b. ABT 950 in Ringerike, Baskerud, Norway d. 29 JUL 1030 in Stiklestad, Nord-Trondelag, Norway
- Ingegerd Olofsdatter of Sweden , b. 8 APR 1001 in Stockholm, Suède d. 10 FEB 1050 in Kyiv Ukraine Temple, Kyiv, Ucrania
Sources:
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- Title: Wikipedia: Estrid of the Obotrites
Author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrid_of_the_Obotrites
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrid_of_the_Obotrites;
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Page: Parents are unknown at this time.
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Page: Her parentage is unknown at this time.
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- Title: Find a Grave
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Page: Parents are uncertain at this time.
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Page: Parents are uncertain at this time.
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