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On the occasion of the wedding of a family member in Stockholm in July 2010, we looked for old links of our family with Sweden. We found at least four links via all four grandparents:

Swedish Kings: lines via the 4 grandparents

Pedigree Zuiderent-van Wijgerden

Olof Skötkonung of Sweden (ca. 980 - 1022) Olof lived in the same timeperiod as our first known Vlaardingen ancestor!
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Jacob Bastiaan Zuiderent	Jannetje Monster	Gijsbert Marius van Wijgerden	Aaltje Baars
Arnold Zuiderent		Plony van Wijgerden
J.G. Zuiderent

*= weak link Blue = nobility

Olof Skötkonung

Olof was baptised, probably by the missionary Sigfrid, c.1008, and he was the first Swedish king to remain Christian until his death. However, according to Adam of Bremen, the fact that the vast majority of the Swedes were still pagan forced him to limit Christian activities to the already Christian border province of Västergötland.

One possible explanation of the name "Skötkonung" is that it means "treasure king" and refers to the fact that he was the first Swedish king to stamp coins.

When he stamped coins in Sigtuna in the province of Uppland Olof used the word rex for king. OLUF REX as in the coin displayed above or OLAF REX. The use of Latin seems to suggest that he was already baptised at this time but on the other hand the coins were imitating English pennies in type and style. Sigtuna is written SITUN, ZINT (in the coin above), ZTNETEI, or SIDEI. The two last has been deciphered as Si(gtuna) Dei meaning God's Sigtuna.

Olof was succeeded by his son Anund Jacob.

Source: Wikipedia

Link with Vlaardingen, Holland

In the same time period that Olof lived, the first known ancestor of the Zuiderent family (in the male line) lived in Vlaardingen, where he was burried around 1040 (see under DNA).

Some years later we also meet coins from Vlaardingen, stamped by count Dirk V of Holland (1061-1091). Just like the Swedish coins, the style seems to be inspired by the English pennies. As far as we know, only one of these Vlaardingen coins has been found until yet. This rare coin happens to be collected in the Royal Coin Cabinet of Stockholm. The texts on the coin are: COMES (= Count) and FLARDINGA (= Vlaardingen).