
Siegfried Denmark

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Name Siegfried Denmark Birth Abt 885 Denmark Gender Male Death Picardie, France Person ID I9794 footsteps | Ancestors Last Modified 21 Apr 2025
Family Elstrude Flandre, b. Abt 932, Flanders, Belgium d. Abt 29 Sep 1036, Belgium
(Age 104 years)
Children + 1. Hawise Guisnes, Countess Of Eu And Brion , b. Abt 958, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France d. 19 Jul 1000, Normandie, France
(Age 42 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
Family ID F5317 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Apr 2025
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Notes
Siegfried 'the Dane' (''Sifridus de Dachia''), a viking, controlled the a r e a a r o und Gu�nes in 928, though he never seemed to have been designate d a s C o u n t.
In about 965 he fell in love with Elftrude (''Elstrude'') the beautiful d a u g h t er of Arnulf (Arnoul) I, Count of Flanders, and she fell pregnant. S i e g f r ied died in 965 and she had a posthumous son, baptised as Ardolf ( A r d o l ph), who became the first Count of Gu�nes