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Family of Guðbrandur ÞORLÁKSSON and Guðrún GÍSLADÓTTIR

  • Husband:

  • Guðbrandur ÞORLÁKSSON (1541-1627)

  • Wife:

  • Guðrún GÍSLADÓTTIR (c. 1530- )

  • Children:

  • Steinunn GUÐBRANDSDÓTTIR (1571-1649)

  • Resided (family):

  •  

  • Hólum í Hjaltadal, Hólahreppur, Skagafjarðarsýsla, Iceland

Husband: Guðbrandur ÞORLÁKSSON

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Guðbrandur ÞORLÁKSSON

  • Name:

  • Guðbrandur ÞORLÁKSSON

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Þorlákur HALLGRÍMSSON (c. 1515-aft1594)

  • Mother:

  • Helga JÓNSDÓTTIR (c. 1511-c. 1600)

  • Birth:

  • 1541

  • Húnavatnssýsla, Iceland

  • Occupation:

  • 1564 (age 22-23)

  • Skólameistari; Skálholti, Biskupstungnahreppur, Árnessýsla, Iceland

  • Occupation:

  • frm 1567 to 1568 (age 25-27)

  • Prestur; Breiðabólsstað í Vesturhópi, Vestur-Húnavatnssýsla, Iceland

  • Residence:

  • frm 1567 to 1568 (age 25-27)

  • Breiðabólsstað í Vesturhópi, Vestur-Húnavatnssýsla, Iceland

  • Occupation:

  • frm 1571 to 1627 (age 29-86)

  • Biskup; Hólum í Hjaltadal, Hólahreppur, Skagafjarðarsýsla, Iceland

  • Residence:

  • frm 1571 to 1627 (age 29-86)

  • Hólum í Hjaltadal, Hólahreppur, Skagafjarðarsýsla, Iceland

  • Death:

  • Jul 20, 1627 (age 85-86)

  • Hólum í Hjaltadal, Hólahreppur, Skagafjarðarsýsla, Iceland

Wife: Guðrún GÍSLADÓTTIR

  • Name:

  • Guðrún GÍSLADÓTTIR1

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • c. 1530

  • Iceland

  • Death:

  • "??"

  • Hólum í Hjaltadal, Hólahreppur, Skagafjarðarsýsla, Iceland

Child 1: Steinunn GUÐBRANDSDÓTTIR

  • Name:

  • Steinunn GUÐBRANDSDÓTTIR1

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • Skúli EINARSSON (c. 1550-1612)

  • Birth:

  • 1571

  • Hólum í Hjaltadal, Hólahreppur, Skagafjarðarsýsla, Iceland

  • Residence:

  •  

  • Hólum í Hjaltadal, Hólahreppur, Skagafjarðarsýsla, Iceland

  • Death:

  • 1649 (age 77-78)

  • Iceland

Note on Husband: Guðbrandur ÞORLÁKSSON (1)

Icelandic mathematician, cartographer and clergyman

Note on Husband: Guðbrandur ÞORLÁKSSON (2)

He studied at the cathedral school in Hólar and then at the University of Copenhagen. He and was successively rector of the school at Skálholt and minister at historic Breiðabólstaður in Vesturhóp. The first laws of Iceland had been written at Breiðabólstaður. The bar association of Iceland has erected a memorial by the site.[1]

 

Guðbrandur Þorláksson was Bishop of Hólar from 1571 until his death on July 20, 1627. During his time as bishop, Guðbrandur edited and published at least 80 books, including the Bible in Icelandic and the Icelandic Lawbook or legal code. He is also noted for having drawn the first good map of Iceland, published in Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum orbis terrarum in 1590. He had at least one child, a daughter named Steinunn, born in 1571 to Guðrún Gísladóttir2

Sources

1.

Islendingabok, Islendingabok.

2.

http://en.wikipedia.org, Wikipedia.