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- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~havens5/p24172.htm
Father Bjorn "Ironside" Ragnarsson2 b. circa 780, d. after 862
Name Variation Rurik Rus Prince was also found as Rurik.3
Name Variation Rurik Rus Prince was also found as Ryurik, Grand Duke of Novgorod.4
Name Variation Rurik Rus Prince was also found as Rubic , Prince of Russia.5
Birth* between 820 and 830 Rurik was born between 820 and 830. Rurik, prince of Novogorod, is considered the founder of the dynasty that ruled Kievan Rus and Muscovy until 1598.
Alexander Agamov, expressing current Russian thinking, doesn't think that Rurik stayes too long in Novgorod, but immediately went to Kiev, because Novgorod & Kiev were bitter enemies, and it was not likely that Rurik would make such a transition after establishing himself in Novgorod. Many Russians doubt the existence of Rurik, and trace the ancestry of Igor, whose existence and descents are well founded.6,3,7,2
!AInfoNew* 840 From: Brynjulf Langballe (b-lan@online.no)
Subject: Re: Rurik
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
Date: 2000/09/21
Rurik was very likely son of Bjørn Ironside who was son of Ragnar Lodbrok. Ragnar was king in the area called Denmark in his time. This was an area that for hundred of years had covered present Denmark, western Sweden and the south east of Norway. Ragnar conquered Sweden, Finland and parts of Russia probably in 832. Later he sat his son Whiteserk in rule of Russia after a second campagne which frightened Byzants. After 850 Whiteserk was killed in Russia and Ragnar made a third campagne. Bjørn Ironside was set to rule both Sweden and Russia. But in 862 he was killed in a battle in Frisia. The same year the Nestor Chronicle is saying Rusia was in lack of a king and asked (his son) Rurik to come.
The place Rurik come from is said to be Sweden, Jutland or Frisia. His father was king in Sweden. When Saxo is saying Jutland this is Gothland (Gøtaland) in Sweden. Rurik very well could have followed his father to Frisia as well, and therefor where coming physicly from there. Something confusing the understanding of this is another Rurik in Frisia at the same time. He was son of king Ali (Anulo) of Haithabu and was king in Dorestadt 826-833 and was in the service of the Franks from 850 to 882.
The bear attribute of Russia seems to come from the name of Rurik's father, Bjørn, which is bear in Scandinavian language.
Brynjulf Langballe, Norway.2
Marriage* 876 Rurik Rus Prince married Efenda Or Edvina of Novgorod 876 in Novgorod, Russia.5,4,2
Death* circa 879
Rurik died circa 879 at Kiev, at Ukraine, at Russia.4,7,2
Family Efenda Or Edvina of Novgorod b. circa 850
Child 1. Igor Rubicowitz+ b. c 877, d. c 947
Citations
1. Download, www.belarustourist.minsk.by/common/history/names/rogneda.
2. Download, Jim Weber e-mail address 14Nov2003 http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I01101
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3. Download, http://www.gendex.com/users/jast/D0021/G0000078.html#I2423
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4. [S10141] BigKings Pedigree, online Church Yard Genealogies, dates not consistent.
5. [S9890] Your Family Tree.
6. [S10141] BigKings Pedigree, online Church Yard Genealogies.
7. Download, http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal5601 ..
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