Gudfred was a ninth century Danish king who reigned from at least 804 to 810. Alternate spellings include Godfred (Danish), Göttrick (German), Gøtrik (Danish), Gudrød (Danish), and Godofredus (Latin). He stands at the threshold of the History of Denmark in the sense that he is the first ruler about whom there is substantial knowledge from contemporary sources. He waged offensive war against the Carolingian Empire with some success, but was murdered under murky circumstances before a major confrontation had taken place. There is no unambiguous trace of Gudfred in the later Norse sagas, and his history can only be traced from the hostile Frankish texts which makes an assessment of his role problematic. His paternity is unknown but he may have been closely related to Sigfred, who preceded him as king of Denmark c. 770–804.[1] He was the uncle of the later Danish King Hemming (810–812) and the father of King Horik I (813–854).
^The only statement of his paternity in the medieval literature is Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum (c. 1200), which asserts that Gudfred or Gøtrik was the son of a King Gorm; this figure, however, appears to be a duplicate of the much later Gorm the Old (d. c. 958). Henrik Schück identified Gudfred with a certain Gudfred the King, mentioned in an Irish genealogy in the Three Fragments (11th century), who in turn was the son of another Gudfred, according to Schück presumably a brother of Sigfred. Henrik Schück (1895), "De senaste undersökningarna rörande ynglingasagan" [1] The value of this genealogy is however debatable.
Gudfred was a ninth century Danish king who reigned from at least 804 to 810. Alternate spellings include Godfred (Danish), Göttrick (German), Gøtrik...
be trusted, his mother may have been disowned by Gudfred in the early 9th century. In 810, Gudfred was assassinated by a housecarl, or, in Notker's version...
successor of King Gudfred, his uncle. Hemming I is mentioned in the Royal Frankish Annals as son to an unnamed brother of Gudfred. Though Gesta Hammaburgensis...
804 when another ruler, Gudfred, is mentioned in the Frankish annals. Nothing is known about Sigfred's relationship to Gudfred, who succeeded him as king...
consistently referred to in Frankish sources as kings (reges). Under the reign of Gudfred in 804 the Danish kingdom may have included all the lands of Jutland, Scania...
cataclysmic Battle of Leuven (891), two Danish Viking kings called Sigfred and Gudfred are reported slain at the hands of the East Frankish King Arnulf of Carinthia...
written sources, work on the Danevirke was started by the Danish King Gudfred in 808. Fearing an invasion by the Franks, who had conquered heathen Frisia...
where King Harald reigned ("Daniae Regi Heraldi"). Sigfred: 770s–790s Gudfred: 804–810, mentioned as Danish king in the Treaty of Heiligen 811. Alternate...
Denmark c. 828 to 854. Son of Gudfred. Harald Klak, 812 to 813 and 819 to 827, a period of civil war with the sons of Gudfred. Nephew of an earlier Harald...
if they were connected to Gudfred. Charlemagne sent an army to secure Frisia, while he himself led a force against Gudfred, who had reportedly challenged...
Charlemagne in 807. King Hemming, nephew of Gudfred, died in 812 after a short reign. Another nephew of Gudfred, Sigfred, wished to succeed him but was immediately...
They were Rørik and Gudfred, nephew and son of the former king Harald Klak, who were probably distant relatives of the Gudfred clan. They therefore had...
some late Frisian sources) as "kings" (reges). Under the rule of King Gudfred in 804 the Kingdom may have included all the major provinces of medieval...
Frisia into Nobility, Freemen, Serfs and Slaves. In 810 the Danish king Gudfred let a fleet consisting of 200 ships invade Frisia, and claiming the territory...
order to encounter the ongoing invasions led by King Sigfred's successor Gudfred, the Franks probably established a Danish march stretching from the Eider...
(in periods ruling jointly with others) 812: Civil war c. 800–810: King Gudfred c. 714: Ongendus king Danish kingship documented from the 8th century,...
during these decades. After the death of the Viking rulers Sigfred and Gudfred at the battle of Leuven in 891, Denmark was, according to Adam of Bremen...
Danish control. It was destroyed in 808 AD by the Viking (danish) king Gudfred. The destroyed place was rebuilt by the Obodrites and continued to operate...
subjected the Duchy of Saxony to his rule, Hemming's predecessor and uncle Gudfred took the chance, crossed the Eider and campaigned in the southern lands...
the Carolingians and later the Frankish empire. The Vikings—led by King Gudfred—destroyed the Obotrite city of Reric on the southern Baltic coast in 808...
around 810 CE, following rulership claims by the ambitious Danish King Gudfred over the territory north of the Elbe, which was at the time part of Saxony...
the legendary figures of Holgar “the Dane” and Estrid, daughter of King Gudfred of Denmark.[citation needed] Hiallt is considered an ancestor of Tancred...
Norse personal name Guðrøðr, also Anglicised as Godred) may refer to: Gudfred (r. 804–810), Danish king, son of King Sigfred Guthred, king of Northumbria...
chief Sigurd and the maternal grandson of the historical King Götrik (i.e. Gudfred, d. 810). Backed by the men of Zealand and Skåne, he fights a civil war...
Godfrid may refer to: Gudfred (died 810), king of the Danes Godfrid Haraldsson (820–56), son of King Harald Klak in Jutland Godfrid, Duke of Frisia (died...
report a King Gudfred, who appeared in present-day Holstein with a navy in 804 where diplomacy took place with the Franks; In 808, King Gudfred attacked the...
the Frankish armies that responded to the incursion of the Danish king Gudfred. Charlemagne's succession plans did not come to fruition. Pepin of Italy...
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