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Synardus In the twelfth-century Danish history ''Gesta Danorum'' (''The Deeds of the Danes''), Siward, (''Sywardus''), was an ancient king in Götaland Götaland (; also '' Gothia'', ''Gothland'', ''Gothenland'' or ''Gautland'') is one of three lan ...

or Siward (12th-century), king of Götaland * Siward (Abbot of Abingdon) (died 1048), Bishop of St. Martins *

Siward, Earl of Northumbria Siward ( or more recently ; ) or Sigurd (, ) was an important earl of 11th-century northern England. The Old Norse nickname ''Digri'' and its Latin translation ''Grossus'' ("the stout") are given to him by near-contemporary texts. It is possibl ...

(died 1055), Anglo-Scandinavian earl of Northumbria (also portrayed as a character in Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'') * Siward (bishop of Rochester) (died 1075) Bishop of Rochester *

Siward Barn Siward Barn () was an 11th-century English thegn and landowner-warrior. He appears in the extant sources in the period following the Norman Conquest of England, joining the northern resistance to William the Conqueror by the end of the 1060s. ...

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fl. ''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indic ...

1066–1087), English resistor to William the Conqueror *

Richard Siward Richard Siward (died 1248) was a distinguished 13th-century soldier, adventurer and banneret. He rose from obscurity to become a member of King Henry III's Royal Council and husband of Philippa Basset, the widowed countess of Warwick. Origins L ...

(died 1248), 13th-century soldier *

Young Siward Young Siward is a character in William Shakespeare’s play ''Macbeth ''The Tragedy of Macbeth'', often shortened to ''Macbeth'' (), is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, estimated to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the p ...

, a character in William Shakespeare's play ''Macbeth'' * Siward, king of Norway, a probably fictional figure in the ''Gesta Danorum''; see

Lagertha Lagertha, according to legend, was a Viking ruler and shield-maiden from what is now Norway, and the onetime wife of the famous Viking Ragnar Lodbrok. Her tale was recorded by the chronicler Saxo Grammaticus, Saxo in the 12th century. According t ...

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