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History and Genealogy
of the Pearsall Family in England
and America:
Volume I
Front Cover
Inside Front Cover
The Motive
Thanks
Illustrations
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Appendix I
Volume II
Volume III
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CHAPTER TWO
ROGNVALD, EARL
OF MERE
Twenty-sixth in
Ancestry
Section
1, Rognvald, His Family and The History of His
Time – Section 2, His Ancestry, The Yngling
Saga.
NOTE:-The generations, both
ancestry and descendantry, as set forth in this
genealogy, are counted so as to begin respectively with Thomas Pearsall
(1564-1644) of England, Holland, and America, who was the genearch, or common ancestor, of the earliest
American family of Pearsall.
As to his
ancestry, each generation, beginning with the oldest, is the subject of a
separate chapter in this book. The name of this ancestor is stated at the
opening of the chapter. This will enable the reader to follow the line of
ancestry, if he so desires, without the necessity of reading the
interesting testamentary and collateral details. In each chapter will be
given, where it could be learned, the name of the wife of this ancestor
together with her ancestral genealogy, and there will also be given the
history of the brothers and sisters of the ancestor of this generation,
and a pedigree of their respective descendants. All these, together with the
transcript of records relating to this ancestor, will give quite a clear
comprehension of him, his associations, and of his time. There may also
be a historical statement or other information which will serve to
revivify our kinsfolk of this generation.
It cannot be too
strongly impressed upon the mind of the reader that the rules of modern
genealogy require that succession in ancestry shall be established with
all the care and certainty that would apply to the inheritance of lands. The
effort has been made in this family history, not only to comply with this
condition, but so far as possible to follow the special regulations of
the American societies in which the right of membership depends upon
established ancestry. The corollary is equally evident, namely, that the
author has therefore exercised no choice in the selection of the oldest
ancestor as this was determined for him by the succession of descent.
This will explain why this work opens with Rognvald to whom the royal
line of England
is also proud to trace its ancestry.
SECTION
1.
26. ROGNVALD.
Earl of Maeir of the Upplandings,
surnamed the rich, was Cousin and Councillor to
Harold the Fairhaired, who conquered the whole kingdom of Norway, and was the first
sovereign thereof. Harold made this Rognvald
Lord of North and South Mura. Rognvald was the
son of Eystein Glumera,
*27 who was the son of Ivar, *28 the son of Halfdan the Old, or the elder, meaning Halfdan the Mild *29 grandfather of Halfdan the Black. Eystein Glumera married Jocunda,
daughter of Hunthaefer, King of North and South
Mura, two provinces of Norway and later married Ascrida,
daughter of Ragenwald, or Reynold,
son of Olaus, King of Norway, who kept his
Court at Gernstad.
Rognvald
married Ragnhild, the daughter of Hrolf the
Beaked, surnamed Nephiot Grosshertz,
a great Herrse or Baron, of Rumstall.
Children:
1. Ivar, who fell in the Hebrides
fighting with King Harold Fairhair.
2. *25.
ROLLO, surnamed Gaungu-Hrolf, Chapter 3,
section 1, who conquered Normandy, from whom is descended the Earls of
Rouen, the Dukes of Normandy, and the Kings of England.
3. Thorir, the Silent, who succeeded his father as Earl
of Moeri.
4. Heldina,
married Sigurt, surnamed Rice, son of Harold Fairhair. He was
King of Norway;
also in 900 Governor of the province
of Ringarce
in Norway.
The
Norsemen were polygamists and by other wives Rognvald
had sons
5. Hrollauf, King of Iceland, Chapter 9, Section
3.
6. Einer (Eunor) Fourth Earl
of Orkney, Chapter 3, Section 2.
7. Hallad (Halladand Tessnall) Third Earl of Orkney.
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