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- Gaute Ivarsson Valen - 1550
Facts and Events
Unverified lines
Highly questionable connections, please read Lars Løberg's article about Norwegian Kings
The connection to the Smjor family is even less plausible. The author claims the well known nobleman Gaute Ivarsson to be a great–grandson of Jon Halvardson Smjor in direct male line. The last male member of the Smjor (or Smør) family most likely died in 1484, and the handling of the estate of Magdalena Olufsdtr from 1547 to 1557 proves that the only living descendants of Jon Halvardson Smjor at that time was a cognatic line represented by Trond Benchestoch and an illegitimate line by Christin, the wife of Erich Ormsøn. Gaute Ivarsson and his many children are never mentioned in this connection. In fact, the only thing we know about the ancestors of Gaute Ivarsson is that his mothers name was Herborg Torbjørnsdtr. His father is unknown, and, whoever he was, he could not possibly have been a grandchild of Jon Halvardson Smjor.
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