Thr descendants of Earl Rognvald

  In 1095, Baron Henri de St. Clair was on the first Crusade in the Holy, Land with the brother of King Henry I of England, Robert Courte-Heuze, Hugh de Payen, the count of Champaign Hugh I, who was a blood relative of Hugh de Payen.

  Hugh de Payen was also married to Katherine St. Clair, AKA Elizabeth de Chappes, a sister of Barron Henri de St. Clair. Andre Montband a blood relative of the Duke of Burgundy and Uncle of Bernard of Clairvaux.  Godfri de Boulion head of the House of Flanders, a cousin of Baron St. Clair, was of the Rex Deus.

  Godfri de Boulion  was  offered the crown of  Jerusalem after its capture in 1099. But chose to rule as protector of the Holy Sepulcher.  Godfri died childless and was succeeded by his brother Baldwin, who became known as King Baldwin I of Jerusalem.  He was succeeded by Baldwin II who was King at the time of the formation of the Knights Templar.

  King Baldwin and this line of family is descendant of the Merovingian dynasty and are the Blood Line of Jesus and Mary Magdalene.

 "One might therefore term Godfroi de Bouillon as a sort of ’king of kings’, or at least a maker of kings, since he founded the Order of Sion that could crown Kings of Jerusalem.

  "To the south of Jerusalem looms the ’high hill’ of Mount Sion." By 1099 an abbey had been built on the ruins of an old Byzantine basilica at the express command of Godfroi de Bouillon.

 "According to one chronicler, writing in 1172, it was extremely well fortified, with its own walls, towers and battlements. And this structure was called the Abbey of Notre Dame du Mont de Sion.

  Richard the III, the eldest son of Richard the II of Normandy, the fifth Duke, Robert the Devil, Mauger the Young, were the sons of Richard the II, Fourth Duke of Normandy.

   He had two daughters who also married right.  Alix became  the wife of the Count of Burgundy and Eleanor the wife of Bouillon, the Count of Flanders.

   Neither Richard nor Robert the Devil, had any legitimate children.  Most of the Norman barons would have preferred the succession to pass to the son of the duke’s younger brother Mauger.

  A party formed by the constable of Normandy, that supported the claims of William, the bastard son of Robert the Devil; this man became known to history as William the conqueror.

  Mauger had three sons;  Hamon, Walderne, and Hubert.   Hamon and Walderne were both killed at the battle of Val-des-Dunes, where the succession of William the Bastard was ensured.

   Two of Walderne children, Richard and Britel, became reconciled with William the Conquer and played a part in the conquest of England, and they were later given estates.

  The two remaining children Agnes and William were very young at the time of their father Maugers death. Agnes married Phillip Bruce, who was also of Norman origin, and an Ancestor of William the Bruce, who became King of Scotland, after the battle of Bannockburn in 1309.

  William became known to history as William the Seemly St. Clair, who escorted Princess Margaret to Scotland, where she was to marry Malcolm Canmore, King of the Scots.

  As a reward for his services he became the Baron of Roslyn.  He later commanded the Scots when they fought against William the conqueror, who was now King of England.  William the Seemly St. Clair, the first Lord of Roslyn was later killed in a battle with the English in Northumberland.

  The Sinclair’s of Scotland were Vikings.  They were descendants of Rognvald—the Earl of More, in Norway.  Earl Rognvald fought alongside King Harald Finehair, (Fairhair) who made him Earl of North More, South More and Romesdal all which lay in the vicinity of the modern town of Trondheim Norway.

The Earls son Ivor, accompanied King Harald Finehair, to conquer the Shetlands, Orkney and the Hebrides. and on the raid of the Isle of Man. Ivar was killed on the raid of the Isle of Man.  For his service King Harald gave Earl Rognvald the Earldom of Shetland and Orkney.

  The Earl passed his rule to his brother Sigurd. Sigurd and Thorstein the Red and Aud the Deep Minded conquered all of Caithness, Moray, Ross, and a large part of Argyle in Scotland.  After Sigurd's death his son ruled for one year and died  childless.

  Earl Rognvald younger son Einer, became the Earl of Orkney and ruled it well. He discovered the concept of digging turf, or peat as a fuel to be burnt instead of wood, thus becoming known to history as Turf Einer.

  Earl Rognvald son Hrolf, went to France in search of new lands and opportunities.  He went up the River Seine and settled in the fertile Seine Valley.

  After much conflict King Charles the Simple made his peace in the hope of using Hrolf to avoid further raids by Vikings. The treaty in 912 A.D. Awarded Hrolf the dukedom of the territories now called Normandy, and the treaty was signed in the Castle Saint Clair-sur-Epte.  Hrolf changed his name to the Latin name of Rollo.

  Duke Rollo was given the lands of Normandy conditioned on his marriage to Princess Gidele, King Charles daughter and his conversion of his entire entourage to Christianity.

  Duke Rollo was then baptized in the waters of the spring called Saint Clair, who was martyred there, in 884 A.D.  The use of the family name of Saint Clair can be traced to Richard II, the fourth Duke of Normandy.  When the names of the territories they were controlling were taken as the names of the rulers.

  Duke Rollo was childless with Duchess Gidele and remarried to Popee, the daughter of the Count of Bayeaux. They had a son known as William Long-Sword.

  William was succeeded by Richard I. Richard I daughter Emma married King Ethelred  the Unready of England.  Another of his daughters married Geoffery, the Count of Brittany, while a third daughter Mathild married Eudes, the Count of Chartres. 

 Duke Rollo's family married into the aristocratic families of Chaumont, Gisors, d'e Evereaux, and Blois, the family of the Count of Champagne. 

 They were also related to the Dukes house of Burgundy, the Royal house of France and also the House of Flanders and Godfri de Bouilion, the first Christian ruler of Jerusalem and an ancestor of the Hapsburgs.

  It is difficult to understand why such a prestigious family as the Royal House of France would have anything to do with the marauding, pirate, pillaging vagabounds as the Vikings. But one thing is certain, they married into the Rex Deus and the Holy Bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalen.