Siegfried Ier de Guines

Siegfried , first count de Guines known as the Dane (°v.940 † a. 965).

Biography

The grounds of Guînes belonged originally to the Saint-Sithiu abbey (become Saint-Bertin thereafter) of Saint-Omer. In 877, Charles the Bald person, assure them the possession of it.

These grounds fell then into the Comté from Flanders.

There exist two assumptions as for the taking possession of the county of Guînes by Sigfrid the Dane

Counter-offensive towards the Flanders

In 965, Guillaume I {{er}}, Count de Ponthieu, removed the Boulonnais, Guînes and Saint-pol. with Arnoul II, Count de Flandre.

Arnoul II called the Danes who came to his rescue, under the control of Knut Gormsson, brother of Harald Ier of Denmark, King of Denmark, and Siegfried, his cousin. Forwarding was victorious, and Arnoul II entrusted the stronghold of Guînes to Siegfried like his/her sister Elstrude of Ghent.

The legend says that Siegfried would have preceded the marriage, and that from their guilty union would have been born Ardolf (or Adolphe, Ardolph). Siegfried would then have been hung to escape the resentment from Arnoul II.

Invasion Viking

According to other historians, Siegfried the Dane and his Vikings would have come to seize, in 928, of the place where then the town of Guînes rose. Arnoul I {{er}} renonça with the counter-attack and delivered his/her daughter Elstrude of Ghent in marriage to the Norman pirate, who was invests Count de Guînes, vassal of the Count de Flandre

Marriage and children

It married in 964 Elstrude of Ghent, born towards 932, and had Ardolf like wire and successor.

Sources

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