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Sunday, June 12, 2011

Some Notable Gordon Predecessors: Thorfinn "The Mighty", Earl of Orkney

Thorfinn Sigurdsson Orkneyjarl, II

c.1009 - c.1060

The Heimskringla of Icelandic historian Snorri Sturluson, and the anonymous compiler of the Orkneyinga Saga, write that Thorfinn was the most powerful of all the earls of Orkney. He is said to have been ruler of nine earldoms in Scotland, of the Hebrides, and of part of Ireland.


Susan McAdam
your mother

John McAdam
her father

John McAdam
his father

Sarah Gordon
his mother

James Gordon
her father

William Gordon
his father

James Gordon
his father

Alexander Gordon
his father

Patrick Gordon
his father

John Gordon
his father

John Gordon
his father

John Gordon
his father

John Gordon
his father

James Gordon
his father

William Gordon
his father

James Gordon
his father

John Gordon
his father

John Gordon
his father

John Gordon of Dromnoy
his father

John Gordon
his father

Adam Gordon, IV
his father

Annabella Strathbogie, of Aberdeenshire
his mother

Isabella Strathbogie
her mother

Matilda Umfreville, Countess of Angus
her mother

Malcolm, Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus
her father

Duncan Ogilvie, Earl of Angus
his father

Matilda of Scotland, Princess
his mother

Haraldr Orkney, Earl Of Caithness & Orkney
her father

Ingeborg of Orkney
his mother

Håkon of Orkney
her father

Jarl Pål Torfinnson Jarl of Orkney, Earl of Orkney
his father

Thorfinn Orkneyjarl, II
his father

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