Queen of Denmark Wealhtheow

530 - 630  (99 years)

• Name	Wealhtheow   [1]
  Title	Queen of Denmark
  Birth	Apr 530	Northumberland, England   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	630	Denmark   [1]
  Person ID	I8199	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family	King of Denmark Hroar Halfdansson,   b. 526, Roskilde, Denmark d. 620, Northumberland, England (Age 94 years)
  Marriage	Abt 547  [2]
  Children	1. King of Roeskilde Denmark Valdar Hroarsson,   b. 547, Denmark d. 567, Denmark (Age 20 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F2763	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Apr 530 - Northumberland, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Old World

  _Hrothgar Hrothgar was a semi-legendary Danish king living around the early sixth century. Hrothgar appears in the Anglo-Saxon epics Beowulf and Widsith, in Norse sagas and poems, and in medieval Danish chronicles. In both Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian tradition, Hrothgar is a Scylding, the son of Halfdan, the brother of Halga, and the uncle of Hrólfr…

  
  

• Sources

  [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. [S874] Wikipedia: Hrothgar, (Name: Wikipedia;), Hrothgar. Hrothgar (Old English: Hrōðgār [ˈr̥oːðɡɑːr]; Old Norse: Hróarr) was a semi-legendary Danish king living around the early sixth century AD.[1] Hrothgar appears in the Anglo-Saxon epics Beowulf and Widsith, in Norse sagas and poems, and in medieval Danish chronicles. In both Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian tradition, Hrothgar is a Scylding, the son of Halfdan, the brother of Halga, and the uncle of Hrólfr Kraki. Moreover, in both traditions, the mentioned characters were the contemporaries of the Swedish king Eadgils; and both traditions also mention a feud with men named Fróði and Ingeld. The consensus view is that Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian traditions describe the same person https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrothgar