So this family tree thing is a total obsession right now. I have been rocking out on it and the coolest thing happened. I got a match. I searched on one of my ancestors in the Swedish census, Bond Anders Andersson and got a match. As it turns out, there is a whole society dedicated to the ancestors of this Olaus Laurentii guy. Pretty cool – we are direct descendants of his, my sisters and I.
Interesting note – if you look at the wikipedia page for Olaus Laurentii, you get this:
Olaus Laurentii (died 25 June 1438) was a Swedish ecclesiastic and
archbishop of Uppsala.
Olaus Laurentii (who is known under the Latin form of his Swedish name Olof Larsson) came from Uppland and studied at the universities of Prague, Leipzig and Paris. He was elected Dean of Uppsala Cathedral in 1417 and archbishop in 1432. He was ordained in Rome 18 May 1432.
In the conflict between king Eric of Pomerania, the ruler of the Kalmar Union countries, and the archbishop Johannes Gerechini in 1419, Olaus acted on behalf of the king and as a diplomatic envoy to Rome in the negotiations to get Johannes Gerechini deposed and the Vadstena monk Johannes Haquini elected and ordained (1422) as new archbishop. When he died in 1432, the chapter elected Olaus new archbishop. Olaus had spent long periods in the previous years in Rome and was in good standing with the pope, but the king preferred bishop Arnold of Bergen. After Arnold died, he was replaced by Torlav of Bergen. Olaus had been ordained by the pope already in 1432, but was accepted by the king only in 1435, during the rebellion of Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson. In 1436, Olaus and the Privy Council of Sweden, over which he presided, turned their back on the king and joined the rebellion.
Olaus Laurentii is said to have died from poisoning by almond milk, and according to a later source the regent (later king) Karl Knutsson (Bonde) was responsible.
In 1435, Olaus consecrated the new Uppsala Cathedral which had been under construction for two centuries.
Which doesn’t seem to jive with this:
Olaus Laurentii (1543-1607) was the vicar in Gagnef, the province of Dalarnas län, from about 1572 until his death, and may be considered the most known of the early inhabitants of the parish. He is known by most genealogists focused on this parish, as the ancestor of many, still existing, family branches in Gagnef.
Which is what I found in the Laurentii family tree.
It seems to me that there may be a valid explanation here, the wikipedia Olaus Laurentii (died 25 June 1438) may have been an ancestor of Olaus Laurentii (1543-1607). To be clear, we have direct lineage to the later Olaus Laurentii (1543-1607), but even the Laurentii website stops cold at Olaus born 1543. The trick is bridging that 100 year gap from 1438 to 1543. It looks like no one has done that yet, although it does seem sort of obvious. I will post more on that later if I can find any genealogical evidence behind the earlier Olaus.
