Nordalah

Nordalah was a Frisian earl who lived around 800. He reigned over an area between the Vlie and the Medemelacha, a stream that was formerly in Medemblik in the Zuiderzee area. Probably this was the Wieringen municipality.^[1]

Nordalah's father was Alfbard also known as Abba.^[2] He died around 810. He was the father of Gerulf I His rule was preceded by his father Alfbard, and succeeded by Dirk.

References

• De possessione Gebes censum quem Nordalah comes et advocatus fresonum constituit, hoc est in Lanthusa villa XII den. et XX solidi; secundus census ad siceram emendam X den.; tercius census ad herbam solvendam XXX den., quod est apud Fresones rosbannare, id est ut equi commune pabulum habeant in prato post abscisionem feni; ab omnibus datur constitutus census; quartus census qui dicitur rutforst X denarii; Naschfelden de duobus unus census constitutus est qui census erit XXX, et bis X [quod erunt L den.].Dronke, Traditiones et Antiquitates Fuldenses, 1844, pages 42 – 51, a transcription of Codex Eberhardi.^[3]

1. ^ Herre Halbertsma, Frieslands Oudheid, Het rijk van de Friese koningen, opkomst en ondergang, Utrecht 2000, page 188.
2. ^ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jamesdow/s008/f242606.htm
3. ^ http://www.keesn.nl/sources/en2_fulda_text.htm

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Short description	Frisian earl
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Date of death	810
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