PAALSON, Earl Haakon

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• Name	PAALSON, Haakon
  Prefix	Earl
  Nickname	Imperious
  Birth	1 Jul 1070	Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Feb 1122
  Death	2 Feb 1122	Kirkwall, Pomona Island, Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland
  WAC	13 Dec 1938	MANTI
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  Father	THORFINNSSON, Earl Paal ,   b. 1036, Driga, Orkney, Scotland Driga, Orkney, Scotlandd. 3 Nov 1099, Bergen, Hordaland, Norway (Age 63 years)
  Mother	HAAKONSDATER, Ragnhild ,   b. Abt 1044, Orkeny Islands, Scotland Orkeny Islands, Scotlandd. Aft 1070 (Age > 27 years)
  Family ID	F25477	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	MADDANNSDATTER, Helga ,   b. Abt 1040, Caithness, Scotland Caithness, Scotlandd. 1108, Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland (Age 68 years)
  Children	2 sons and 2 daughters
  1. HAAKONSSON, Earl Paal ,   b. 1093, Orkney, Scotland Orkney, Scotlandd. 1137, Jarl, Pakistan (Age 44 years)   2. HAAKONSSON, Harald ,   b. Abt 1104, Orkeny Islands, Scotland Orkeny Islands, Scotlandd. Dec 1131, Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland (Age 27 years)   3. HAAKONSDATER, Countess Margaret ,   b. Abt 1076, Orkney Island, Orkney, Scotland Orkney Island, Orkney, Scotlandd. 1154, Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland (Age 78 years) + 4. HAAKONSDATTER, Ingebiorg ,   b. 6 Nov 1097, Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotlandd. 1152, Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland (Age 54 years)
  Family ID	F25475	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Descent of the McDanells- Paul, his son was Hoakon, Earl of the Orkneys; his daughter was Ingibjorg IV who married Olaf Bitling, King of the Southern Isles; his her son Ragnhilda who married Somerharlidh, King of Argyll. about 1157; and their three sons were: Eufgall, Ergus, and Raghnall. Raghnall had a son Donal, and Donal had a son Aenghus Mor MacDomhnaill (circa 1263) and Aenghus had a son by the same name (Aenghus Og who died in 1325; Aenghus Og who died in 1325 had a son Eoin (RIN 98216) who married Margaret, daughter of Robert II of Scotland. Eoin (98216) and Margaret (RIN23517) had four children- 1. Donnel of Isla c. 1411 2. Alastar Carrach 3. Marcus who was the ancestor of the MacDonnells of Knocknacloy of Colttyar?? 4. Eoin Mor md. abt 1400 to Margery Bissett her became the ancestor of the Earls of Antrim (RIN38642) NORSE PREDECESSORS of the EARLS of ORKNEY - subject to King of Norwayuntil after 1379 HAKON Paulsson was Regent of Orkneys and the Sudreys (? also ofCaithness) for Sigurd Magnusson, Spring 1099 to (?) Spring 1105, when hewent to Norway and was invested by King Sigurd I with the title of Jarlof Orkney. He was thus sole Jarl of Orkney until his first cousin MagnusErlendsson secured investiture as Jarl of half Orkney from Eystein IMagnusson, co-King of Norway (1103-1122). At first the two cousins ruledtogether amicably and united against Duffnial, described as their secondcousin, who "fell before them" ; but finally they quarrelled and Hakontook Magnus prisoner on Egilsay and put him to death (16 Apr. (?) 1117).Thereafter Hakon was sole Jarl of Orkney until his death (? 1126). Thename of his 1st wife is not recorded. By her he had a son Paul theSilent. By his 2nd wife, Helga, dau. of Moddan of Dalr in Caithness, andsister of Jarl Ottar in Thurso, he had Harald I Slettmali (Smooth-spoken)and two daughters.