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Ingibiorg Finnsdottir

Queen of Scotland

Queen of Scotland

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fatherFinn Arnesson
motherBergljot Halvdansdottir
birth_placeNorway
death_datec. 1069
death_placeScotland
  • Thorfinn Sigurdsson
  • Malcolm III, King of Alba
  • Paul Thorfinnsson
  • Erlend Thorfinnsson
  • Duncan II, King of Alba Ingibiorg Finnsdottir (normalised Old Norse: Ingibjǫrg Finnsdóttir, ) was a daughter of Earl Finn Arnesson and Bergljot Halvdansdottir.{{cite web|url=https://snl.no/Finn_Arnesson |title= Finn Arnesson|publisher = Store norske leksikon

She married Earl Thorfinn Sigurdsson of Orkney. The Orkneyinga Saga claims that Kalf Arnesson, Ingibiorg's uncle, was exiled in Orkney after her marriage to Thorfinn. This was during the reign of Magnus the Good, son of Olaf II, who ruled from 1035 to 1047, and probably before the death of Harthacanute in 1042. Thorfinn and Ingibiorg had two known sons, Paul and Erlend Thorfinnsson, who jointly ruled as earls of Orkney. Both also fought in Harald Hardraade's ill-fated invasion of the Kingdom of England in 1066.

Ingibiorg remarried after Thorfinn's death (date unknown). Her second husband was King Malcolm III of Scotland. Whatever the date of the marriage, Malcolm and Ingibiorg had at least one son, and probably two. The Orkneyinga Saga tells us that Duncan II (Donnchad mac Mail Coluim) was their son, and it is presumed that the "Domnall son of Máel Coluim, King of Scotland" whose death in 1085 is reported by the Annals of Ulster was also their son.

Ingibiorg is presumed to have died in around 1069 as Malcolm married Margaret, sister of Edgar Ætheling, in about 1070. It may be, however, that she died before Malcolm became king, as an Ingeborg comitissa appears in the Liber Vitae Ecclesiae Dunelmensis, a list of those monks and notables from whom prayers were said at Durham, alongside persons known to have died around 1058. If Ingibiorg was never queen, it would help to explain the apparent ignorance of her existence displayed by some Scots chroniclers.

Notes

References

  • Anon., Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney, tr. Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards. Penguin, London, 1978.
  • Duncan, A.A.M., The Kingship of the Scots 842–1292: Succession and Independence. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2002.
  • Oram, Richard, David I: The King Who Made Scotland. Tempus, Stroud, 2004.
  • Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway, tr. Lee M. Hollander. Reprinted University of Texas Press, Austin, 1992.

References

  1. ''Saga of Harald Sigurdsson'', c. 45; ''Orkneyinga Saga'', c. 34, says that Ingibiorg was a cousin of Thora, Harald Hardraade's wife and mother of [[Olaf III of Norway]].
  2. ''Orkneyinga Saga'', c. 25.
  3. Kalf's exile is in the ''Saga of Magnus the Good'', c. 14, Harthacanute's death, c. 17; ''Orkneyinga Saga'', c. 25, offers no information which could be used to date the marriage.
  4. ''Orkneyinga Saga'', c. 34; ''Saga of Harald Sigurdsson'', c. 83.
  5. Per Norseng. "Torfinn Sigurdsson". Store norske leksikon.
  6. Narve Bjørgo. "Erlend Torfinnsson". Norsk biografisk leksikon.
  7. Nils Petter Thuesen. "Pål Torfinnsson". Norsk biografisk leksikon.
  8. ''Orkneyinga Saga'', c. 32, says that he "died towards the end of the reign of Harald [Hardraade]". Harald reigned for twenty years. See also Duncan, p. 42, who suggests Thorfinn died in the early 1050s.
  9. ''Orkneyinga Saga'', c. 34.
  10. Annals of Ulster, 1085.2; Oram, ''David I'', pp. 22–23; Duncan, p. 55.
  11. Thus Oram, pp. 23–23.
  12. Duncan, pp. 42–43. Note that "c. 1085" on the first line of p. 43 is evidently an error for "c. 1058".
  13. A death in 1058 would also sit with [[Orderic Vitalis]]'s belief that Malcolm was betrothed to Margaret in 1059; Duncan, p. 43.
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