Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 01-20-2025.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom available to be downloaded.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page


Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Harald II King Of Denmark Death: Abt 1018
  2. Gytha
  3. Thyra
  4. Estrid Death: 9 May After 1020
  5. Knut The Great King Of Denmark And England Birth: Abt 995 Death: 12 Nov 1035 in Sherborne


Bibliography
  1. Burke, Sir John Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage Baronetage and Knightage. 99th edition. London: Burke's Peerage, 1949. Available at http://archive.org/details/burkesgenealogic1949unse. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burke Peerage [cx0-9]*].
  2. Previte-Orton, C. W., The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History, Cambridge: University Press, 1952. Reprinted with corrections 1960. Available at (part 1) http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149173 and (part 2) http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149602. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CMH p[0-9]*].
  3. Schwennicke, Detlev, ed., Europaische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der europaischen Staaten, New Series. II: Die Ausserdeutschen Staaten Die Regierenden Hauser der Ubrigen Staaten Europas. Marburg: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1984. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: ES II #[0-9]*].
  4. Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday Descendants, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Vol II: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002. NYPL ARF 03-4178 vol 2. Corrections at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/domesday-descendants-corrigenda.pdf Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p[0-9]*].
  5. Kelley, David H, The House of Aethelred, in Brook, Lindsay, ed., Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday. Salt Lake City: Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, 1989. NYPL APB 91-4605. My copy was from https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/503782 (but it is no longer available there). Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Kelley Aethelred p[0-9]*].
  6. Moncreiffe, Sir Ian of that Ilk, Royal Highness: Ancestors of the Royal Child. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. NYPL ARF 83-3293. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Moncreiffe RoyalAnc p[0-9]*].
  7. Moriarty, G Andrews, Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III And Queen Philippa. Salt Lake: Mormon Pioneer Genealogical Society, 1985. LDS Film#0441438. NYPL ARF-86-2555. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007905814?cat=66443. Also available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/66443. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Moriarty Plantagenet p[0-9]*].
  8. Paget, Gerald, The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales. London: Charles Skilton Ltd, 1977. Nypl ARF+ 78-835. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Paget HRHCharles p[0-9]*].
  9. Baldwin, Stewart, Adam of Bremen's kings of Norway. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 3/26/1997. Subject: Adam of Bremen's kings of Norway. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/Nt8s0wbYIKo/m/dVxc0C02rAkJ. Author address: sbald at AUBURN dot CAMPUS dot MCI dot NET. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Stewart Baldwin SGM 3/26/1997].
  10. Tapsell, R. F., Monarchs, Rulers, Dynasties and Kingdoms of the World. New York: Facts on File Publications, 1983. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Tapsell Dynasties p[0-9]*].
  11. Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, David Faris, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America before 1700, 7th Edition, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1992. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Weis AR7 #[0-9][0-9]*[A-Z]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
parents:
[Ref: Moriarty Plantagenet p146],
father:
[Ref: CMH p383, ES II #97, Kelley Aethelred p83, Moncreiffe RoyalAnc p110, Tapsell Dynasties p193],
mother:
not specified [Ref: ES II #97]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: ES II #114, ES II #120, ES II #97, Paget HRHCharles p7]
1014 [Ref: CMH p383, Moncreiffe RoyalAnc p110, Moriarty Plantagenet p146, Tapsell Dynasties p193]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: Paget HRHCharles p7]
Sources with Information about marriage to Gunhild
date:
[Ref: ES II #120]
first marriage of Sven Forkbeard [Ref: Paget HRHCharles p7],
child:
[Ref: ES II #97, Keats-Rohan DD p1101, Paget HRHCharles p7]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
date:
second marriage of both [Ref: Paget HRHCharles p7],
names:
Sven Forkbeard & Sigrid (#11297) [Ref: Paget HRHCharles p7]
Research Notes:
985-1014: King of Denmark [Ref: Tapsell Dynasties p193]
1013-1014: King of England [Ref: Tapsell Dynasties p175]
King of Denmark and England [Ref: Moncreiffe RoyalAnc p110]
King of Norway [Ref: Stewart Baldwin SGM 3/26/1997]

assumed title of King of England, but was never crowned [Ref: Paget HRHCharles p7]

ransomed from Jomsvikings by jewelery of Danish women [Ref: Moncreiffe RoyalAnc p110]

also ruled Norway from the death of Olaf until his own death in 1014 [Ref: Stewart Baldwin SGM 3/26/1997]



Pedigree of Sven I Forkbeard King Of Denmark And England
                                                                /-----Sigurd Ring King Of Sjaelland And Uppsala
                                                       /-----Rayner Lodbrok King Of Denmark And Sweden
                                              /-----Sigurd Snodoye King Of Denmark And Sweden
                                     /-----Horda Knut King Of Denmark
                            /-----Frotho King Of Denmark
                   /-----Harold Parcus King Of Denmark
          /-----Gorm Del Gammel King Of Denmark
 /-----Harald Blaatand King Of Denmark
|        |                                                      /-----Eoppa
|        |                                             /-----Eafa
|        |                                    /-----Eahlmund King of Kent
|        |                           /-----Egbert The Great King Of England
|        |                          |        |                  /-----Wihtred King Of Kent
|        |                          |        |         /-----Ethelbert II King Of Kent
|        |                          |        |        |         \-----Ethelburga
|        |                          |         \-----(Unk Dau)
|        |                  /-----Ethelwolf King Of England
|        |                 |         \-----Raedburh
|        |         /-----Ethelred I King Of England
|        |        |        |         /-----Oslac Great Butler Of England
|        |        |         \-----Osburh
|         \-----Thyra
|                 |         /-----(Unk)
|                  \-----Wulfrida
Sven I Forkbeard King Of Denmark And England
 \-----Gunthilda



Descendants of Sven I Forkbeard King Of Denmark And England
1. Sven I Forkbeard King Of Denmark And England m1. Gunhild m2.
m. Gunhild father: Miesko Prince Of Poland mother: Dabrowaka Of Bohemia

2nd generation

5. Estrid m1. Richard II The Good Duke Of Normandy m2. Ulf Jarl
m. Richard II The Good Duke Of Normandy father: Richard I The Fearless Duke Of Normandy mother: Gunnora
m. Ulf Jarl father: Jarl Thorkill Sprakalaeg
6. Knut The Great King Of Denmark And England m1. Aelfgyfu m2. Emma
m. Aelfgyfu father: Aelfreln Ealdorman Of Northumbrian Danes mother: Wulfruna
m. Emma father: Richard I The Fearless Duke Of Normandy mother: Gunnora

3rd generation

7. Sven II Astridson King Of Denmark m1. m2. Gunhild m3. Gyda m4. Thora Thorbergsdotter
m. Gunhild father: Sven Hakonsson Jarl mother: Holmfrid Of Sweeden
m. Gyda
m. Thora Thorbergsdotter
11. Cunegunda Of Denmark m. Henry III The Black King Of Germany, Emperor
m. Henry III The Black King Of Germany, Emperor father: Conrad II The Salic King Of Germany mother: Gisele Of Swabia

4th generation

13. Knut IV King Of Denmark m. Adele Of Flanders
m. Adele Of Flanders father: Robert Le FRISON, Count Of Flanders mother: Gertrude Of Saxony
15. Erik I King Of Denmark m1. m2. Bodil Thrugotsdatter
m. Bodil Thrugotsdatter father: Thrugot Ulfssen mother: Thorgunna Vagnsdatter
16. Neils King Of Denmark m. Margareta Of Sweden
m. Margareta Of Sweden father: Inge I Stenkilsson King Of Sweden mother: Helena

5th generation

20. Ingegard Of Denmark m. Folk Der Dicke
m. Folk Der Dicke
22. Erik II King Of Denmark m. Malmfried Of Kiev
m. Malmfried Of Kiev father: Mstislas II Grand Prince Of Kiev mother: Christina Of Sweden
23. Ragnhild Of Denmark m. Hakon Sunnivasson
m. Hakon Sunnivasson
24. Knut Lavand King Of South Jutland m. Ingeborg Of Kiev
m. Ingeborg Of Kiev father: Mstislas II Grand Prince Of Kiev mother: Christina Of Sweden