KLAUS THE RED
 

From various sources, the Klaus sightings team has assembled the following anecdotal and historical evidence concerning Klaus' movements over the centuries. As more information becomes available, the sightings team will seek to compile all records of Klaus in a comprehensive timeline. Links to blog items are included, but the Klaus sightings team does not endorse the "Musings of Klaus the Red" despite their uncanny similarities to what is known about Klaus through interviews conducted by Glen Naessens and Christopher Davis in February of 2006 (note: links below go to the old "MySpace" blog, but the entire "Musings of Klaus the Red" are now available through Wordpress).

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MONTH YEAR CITY COUNTRY NOTES
760?   NORWAY Klaus the Red is born to Nor Bloodaxe, a tribal chieftain of the peoples of the North in what is now Norway.
June 793 Northumberland ENGLAND Viking raid on Lindisfarne Abbey. King Nor dies. Klaus is wounded in a fight with his brother Lars. Klaus drinks from the Holy Grail.
1219 Alexandria EGYPT Klaus and company perform for the Amir. Nasibah, Klaus' wife, is killed.
December 1273 Naples ITALY Thomas Aquinas gives up writing his Summa Theologica. Is Klaus the reason? [blog 12/14/06]
January 1309 Paris FRANCE Klaus claims to have spent time with the exiled Dante Alighieri, inspiring the description of Cato of Utica in Purgatorio. [blog 1/27/07]
1394 Constantinople TURKEY Klaus meets Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos. [blog 9/19/06]
1459 Bamberg, Bavaria GERMANY Klaus befriends and invests in Johannes Gutenberg after the printer goes bankrupt in 1455.
1506 Cordoba SPAIN Diego Lucero, Inquisitor, tortures Klaus.
1597 London ENGLAND Klaus tours with Lord Chamberlain's men and claims to have played Falstaff. [blog 11/17/06]
1633 Arcetri ITALY Klaus acts as messenger between Galileo and his daughter, Sister Maria Celeste while the astronomer is under house arrest. [blog 2/13/07]
1665 London ENGLAND Klaus ministers to a plague-ridden London.
1672? London ENGLAND Klaus studies optics under Sir Isaac Newton. [blog 6/20/07]
1765 London ENGLAND Klaus befriends Dr. Johnson.
[blog 9/25/06]
1784-1787 Paris FRANCE Klaus is seen at the court of Versaille, a friend of Marie Antoinette, and claims to have met several famous personages, including Franz Mesmer. [blog 10/16/06 and 3/5/07]
October 1810 Munich GERMANY Klaus attends the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese (Octoberfest). [blog 10/12/06]
February 1821   CHILE Klaus is aboard the Indian, the ship that rescues Own Chase, survivor of the shipwreck of the Essex.
[blog 11/20/06]
September 1862 St. Petersburg RUSSIA Klaus attends the wedding of Leo and Sophie Tolstoy. [blog 9/23/06]
September 1869 Ellis County, Kansas USA Klaus may have been the cause of a fight at John Bitter's Beer Saloon where Wild Bill Hickok kills Samuel Strawhun. [blog 9/27/06]
November 1886 Paris FRANCE Klaus attends the opening of the Folies Bergere.
November 1895 Chicago, Illinois USA Klaus competes in the Chicago Times Herald's first gasoline-powered racing content. Sort of. [blog 11/2/06]
October 1901 Niagra Falls, New York USA Klaus is in the crowd as Annie Edson Taylor goes over the falls in a barrel. [blog 10/24/06]
1903 Luxor EGYPT Klaus spends time in the Valley of the Kings with Howard Carter twenty years before the famous archaeologist finds King Tut. [blog 2/17/07]
December 1914 Ypres BELGIUM Christmas Eve. No Man's Land.
January 1914 Ojinaga MEXICO Klaus is there with Ambrose Bierce during his final days. [blog 11/7/06]
1918 Paris FRANCE Klaus attends the first nude performance at the Folies Bergere.
[blog 11/30/06]
1922 Cleveland, Ohio USA Klaus runs a speakeasy during Prohibition, but gets shut down by the Mob. [blog 1/16/07]
1941 Los Angeles, California USA Klaus has lunch with Bess, Houdini's widow at the Knickerbocker hotel. [blog 10/31/06]
September 1946 Cannes FRANCE Klaus attends the first Cannes film festival.
[blog 9/20/06]
February 2006 Philadelphia, PA USA Klaus confides his tale to Glen Naessens, who begins working with friend and writer Christopher Davis on the screenplay Klaus the Red.
 
 
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(any resemblance to persons mythical, living or dead is more than coincidental)