Uleb (Ulf) Ragnvaldsson (Russian: Улеб (Ульф) Рагнвальдсон) was a posadnik and military leader of Novgorod. He led the Novgorodians in the conquest of Yugra in 1032.[1]
His father was the jarl of Staraya Ladoga (Aldeigjuborg) Ragnvald Ulfsson and his mother Ingeborg Tryggvasdotter was the daughter of Tryggve Olafsson, the granddaughter of Harald Fairhair, and the sister of Olaf I of Norway. According some historians, he was a grandfather of Gyuryata Rogovich, from the famous Novgorod boyar family (ru:Гюрятиничи-Роговичи).
References
- ↑ The Slavicization of the Russian North. Mechanisms and Chronology. Ed. by Juhani Nuorluoto, Helsinki 2006 ISBN 952-10-2852-1 (in Russian)
Sources
- . Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906.
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