Ebbe Sunesøn (Hvideätten)

[Benny Borgstrand]

Ebbe Sunesøn ( Hvideätten ). Vem var han gift med, och om han var gift mer än en gång, vem var då moder till Benedicta, som gifte sig med Sverker Karlsson ( d.y )?.

[Leif Persson]

Det är troligen helt okända uppgifter för oss idag, Benny. Det står heller inget om den saken i SBL band 3 sid. 170, i (den annars väldigt läsvärda) artikeln om Benedicta.

[Benny Borgstrand]

Leif,  Det var det jag befarade, har plöjt genom SBL och ÄSF utan att jag funnit något, men hade hoppats att det ev fanns andra källor i Danmnark ev.

[M.Sjöström]

Ebbe Sunesen was Lord of Knardrup, in Zeeland, Denmark. He is said to have led Sverker II's troops in 1208 battle of Lena. Some material calls him Marsk (whether it was Danish marsk or Swedish). Ebbe was one of the seven famed Sunesons, brothers and magnates in Denmark.  (As already mentioned above, Ebbe's wife is not known to today.)  He is apparently regarded to have had (at least) two daughters: Benedikte and Cecilie. The latter was married with a Jon Reimatsen, and became mother of the long-lived Jon Litle de Scania, ultimately the drost. Jon Litle was thus first cousin of  Helena Sverkersdotter, mother of queen Catherine of Sweden. Ebbe's son Johannes (yet one Jon more, there) became Lord High Constable of Denmark.  Although by Saxo's account the Sunesons were agnates of the Hvide chieftain dynasty (of Zeeland), for some reason Ebbe has been dubbed with the name [Galen] in later historiography/ genealogy. Galen though is name later applied to families mostly in Skåne (not in Zeeland): some cognatic descendants of Ebbe's sister, and to cognatic descendants of Ebbe through his daughter Cecilie; which may have a common origin in Cecilie's husband Jon Reimatsen and an ancestor of children of Ebbe's niece, being possibly related. Thus, there is no necessity to put Ebbe as a [Galen], and it may well be a mistaken appellation.

[Jan Åke Sandberg]

I Heraldisk Tidskrift jubileumshäfte nr 49/50 från oktober 1984 finns en uppsats av Ernst Verwohlt Hvide-slaegtens heraldik med antavlor och denna visar Galen-ättens samband med Hvideätten.