The knights of the Order.
This is information about persons that we attempt
to re-create (whether actual historical persons or ficticious) and
information about the member of OI doing the re-creating.
Knight
Ørjan Karlsson
Motto:
Per Ardua Ad Astra (through hardship to the stars)
Family crest:
Argent, a leg Azure
Re-created by: Øyvind Moe
Biography:
Øyvind Moe is a decendant from Faste Pedersen Skanke, son of the
lensman (q.v.) Peder
Jensson Skanke, Hov in Häckås, Jämtland (Sweden). This
is an agnatian lineafe dating back to Knight Ørjan Karlsson (1400 –
ca 1472). Ørjan Karlsson was knighted in Nidaros during the coronation
of King Karl Knutsson Bonde in AD 1449. Owing to this lineage, Øyvind
has the crest of the Skanke family as his crest.
Knight
Eirik Einarsön Schanke
Motto:
Auribus Teneo Lupum (I hold the wolf by the ears)
Familiecrest:
Gules, a Fleur-de-Lys Argent
Re-created by: Erik Ryen
Biography:
Erik Ryen is a decendant to Ørjan Karlsson (1400 – ca 1472). Ørjan
Karlsson was knighted in Nidaros during the coronation of King Karl
Knutsson Bonde in AD 1449. Owing to this lineage, Erik Ryen has chosen
to re-create a fictitious man by the name of Eirik Einarsön Skanke, born
1320.
Knight
Bjarne
Erlingsson
Motto:
Family crest: Argent
a dexter yellow griff rampant
Re-created by: Bjørn
Gundersen
Biography:
Bjarne Erlingsson was born some time between the years AD1310 and
AD1320,
We know this as his father is known to have been born in AD1292 and thus
may very well have fathered children in 1310. This man was the son of
drottsete (q.v.) Herr Erling Vidkunnsson in Giske and therefore heir to
one of the largest estates in Norway.
Knight
Halsten Torleifssøn
Motto: Aut
inveniam viam aut faciam (I will either find a way or make one)
Familycrest:
, Gules, thre legs Argent
Re-created by: Egil Moe
Biography:
Egil Moe is a descendant of Halsten Torleifsons family. This was a
norwegian family of high nobility that ascended in Norway in AD 1303
with its first knight Halsten Torleifssønn. Scientist Barney Young from
the Isle of Man states that Halstein was the son of Torleif Haraldsønn
and Magnhild, daughter of av Godred (Magnusson), dead AD1275, king of
the Sudrøyene (the Hebrides) AD1265-66. Young conjectures from the
family crest that Halstein descends from the royal house of Isle of Man,
a house that sported the same coat of arms. Young further establish a
hypothetical line of descent, where Halstein is the ancestor of all the
subsequent Skanke-families in the Nordic countries. (Sources: ‘The
tree legs go to Scandinavia’, Isle of Man 1981; The history of the
Skanke family (Norwegian), Isle of Man 1986).
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