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RÖRIK [Horik] (-after 857). The Annales Bertiniani record that "Roric et Godofridus" returned to Denmark after Emperor Lothar gave Frisia to his son Lothar in 855[116]. The Annales Fuldenses recordthat "Rorih Nordmannus" who governed "Dorestado" sailed with a fleet to Denmark with the consent of "domini sui Hlotharii regis" in 857 and with the consent of "Horico Danorum rege" ruled part of thecountry between the sea and "Egidoram"[117]. No indication has so far been found of the parentage of this Rörik.
1. RÖRIK [Horik] (-after 858). Adam of Bremen records that "Gudurm principe Nortmannorum" challenged "patruo…rege Danorum Horico", specifying that the only survivor of the conflict was "puerum unum…Horicum"[118]. The Chronicon Roskildense records that "Hericum regem" was killed and succeeded by "Hericus puer"[119]. Adam of Bremen records that "iuniorem Horicum" recovered the kingdom in Denmark[120], undated but the passage immediately follows one recording events in 858. On his death, the kingdom of Denmark seems to have disintegrated[121]. No indication has so far been foundof the parentage of this Rörik.
a) [RAGNHILD "the Rich" (-[897). Snorre names "Ragnhild the Mighty", a daughter of King Eirik from Jutland" as one of the wives of King Harald, commenting that "it is said that he put away nine wives" when he married her[122]. No indication has been found in the primary sources so far consulted about which King Rörik may have been Ragnhild's father. However, from a chronological pointof view it is more likely that he was the most junior of the kings of this name. According to Snorre, "Queen Ragnhild the Mighty" lived three years after she came to Norway[123]. m ([894]) as his sixth wife, HARALD I "Hårfagre/Harfagri/Fairhair" King of Norway, son of HALFDAN "Swarti/the Black" King of Vestfold & his second wife [Ragnhild Sigurdsdatter] ([853/54] or 860-Hogaland 933, 934 or 940, bur "under a mound at Haugar in Karmtsund, near the church in Haugesund").]
Es ist unklar, ob Rörik von Dorstadt und Rurick von Novgorod identisch sind, oder aber Vater uns Sohn sind, oder aber evt. gar nichts mit einander zu tun haben.
Es gibt auch verschiedene Angaben zu den Eltern von Rörik:
Er wird als Sohn von Anulo angegeben aber auch als Sohn von Hemming, beides Söhne von Halfdan von Haithabu.
Note on identity of Rurik, konung of Novgorod and Ladoga (by Andrey Alexandrovich Frizyuk)
Roerik of Dorestad (see HERE)was born about 810/20. Frankish chroniclers mention that he received lands in Friesland from the Emperor Louis I. This was not enough for him, and he started to plunder neighbouring lands: he took Dorestad in 850, captured Haithabu in 857, looted Bremen in 859... The Emperor was enraged and stripped him of all his possessions in 860. After that Roerik disappears from the Western sources for a considerable period of time.
The first Russian chronicle, that of Nestor, says that in 862 one Rurik arrived to Slavic lands with his kin from the land of "rus" (identified by Adam of Bremen with Jutland) in 862, built the fortress of Ladoga, and then ruled in Novgorod. Nestor wrong translated Scandinavian words 'sine hus' (with house) and 'tru voring' (with loyal guard) as the names of Rorik's brothers: Sineus and Truvor. Archaeologists discovered that the settlement of Ladoga was really built about this time, and that earthenware, household utensils, etc were imported from Jutland! These facts led many scholars to identify the Viking prince Rurik of Russian chronicles with Roerik of Dorestad.
Roerik of Dorestad reappeared in Frankish chronicles in 870, when his Friesland demesne was returned to him by Charles the Bold; in 882 he is already mentioned as dead. Nestor places the death of Russian Rurik at 879. Quite striking for a coincidence!
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Herzog. v. Dorstadt, geboren um 810 (Religion: nord.), gestorben vor 882, wurde 850 mit Dorestad und den friesischen Grafschaften von Lothar I. belehnt und zum fränkischen Herzog erhoben
Dorstadt liegt im Landkreis Wolfenbüttel bei Sickte
Kirsten Ingolf
Schiffmann
