1 MISC Childless (Barnløs)
1 MISC Grummekulegade 454b, Rønne, Bornholm
1 MISC Emigrated to America
From the 1771 census of Olsker parish:
Hans Wejdichsen, Bonde, alder: 57, 2' ægteskab, hans hustrus alder: 51,2'ægteskab.
Ellen Mogensdatter died holding the widow-rights to 20 Slg. (in a farmgrouping known as Lærkegårde) in Olsker parish.
This database researched and compiled by Norman Lee Madsen, Toronto,Ontario, copyright 2006.
1 _FA1
2 PLAC Count
1 _FA1
2 PLAC Duke of Neustria
1 MISC Count of Paris
1 _FA1
2 DATE 919-936
2 PLAC King of the East Franks
1 MISC Duke (Hertug) of Saxony
"In A.D. 928 Henry the Fowler, marching across the frozen bogs, tookBrannibor, a chief fortress of the Wends" [sources: "Reichs-Historie",Kohler (Frankfurth und Leipzig, 1737), p. 63; "Chur-und FurstlichenHauser in Deutschland", Michaelis (Lemgo, 1759, 1760, 1785), i. 255].Probably, at that time, a town of clay huts, with dirt and palisadedsod-wall round it; certainly "a chief fortress of the Wends," -- who musthave been a good deal surprised at the sight of Henry on that rimy wintermorning near a thousand years ago.Henry, called "the Fowler" (Heinrich der Vogler) because he was in his"Vogelheerde" (Falconry or Hawk-establishment, seeing his Hawks fly) inthe upland Hartz Country in 919 when messengers came to tell him that theGerman Nation, through its Princes and Authorities assembled at Fritzlar,had made him King; and that he would have dreadful work henceforth.Which he undertook -- warring all his days against chaos in that country,no rest for him until he died. The beginning of German Kings; the first,or essentially the first sovereign of a united Germany - Charlemagne'sposterity to the last bastard having died out, and only Anarchy, Italianand others, being the alternative.
1 _FA1
2 PLAC Queen of the Franks
1 MISC Countess of Saxony