Sverker the Elder (Old Swedish: Swærkir konongær gambli; c. 1100 - 25 December 1156), also known as Sverker I, was King of Sweden from about 1132 until...

half-brother Eric Emune. The civil war weakened Magnus's position in Sweden. The Swedes chose a landowner from Östergötland, Sverker I, to be their king....

Sverker's son Karl Sverkersson ruled in the late 1150s. According to the legend, Erik did much to consolidate Christianity in his realm. However, the...

attack by Knut Eriksson who succeeded him as king. Karl was the son of King Sverker the Elder, who was assassinated in December 1156. A pretender from another...

between 1150 and 1153, was the eldest son of King Sverker the Elder of Sweden and his queen Ulfhild Håkansdotter. He had a role in the outbreak of a war between...

elected king after the assassination of King Sverker the Elder in 1156. Erik himself was killed in 1160 by the Danish lord Magnus Henriksen while attending...

of Sverker the Elder. The Westrogothic law gives the name of Sverker's father as Cornube. This may be compared with a Swedish annal entry from the 14th...

was the daughter of the Norwegian Haakon Finnsson and who would later marry the Danish king Nils Svensson and even later the Swedish king Sverker the Elder...

claimant to the throne of Sweden, which was much-contested at the time. In 1156 he allegedly bribed a trusted servant of King Sverker the Elder to assassinate...

killed in battle. The deed did not immediately secure the throne for Knut, who started fighting for power against Sverker the Elder's sons or grandsons...

"The Elder" and "the Younger" are epithets generally used to distinguish between two individuals, often close relatives. In some instances, one of the...

probably under the nominal supremacy of Danish kings during a few decades until the Swedish king Sverker the Elder and after him the Swedish king Erik...

queen" on Wikipedia. The following is a list of usurpers – illegitimate or controversial claimants to the throne in a monarchy. The word usurper is a derogatory...

high-ranking noble families of the time, though only distantly related to the royal house; his closest royal ancestor was King Sverker II of Sweden (both through...

surname. Notable people with the surname include: Burislev Sverkersson or Boleslaw of Sweden, son of Sverker the Elder, King of Sweden and his second...

of Ponthieu (b. c. 1120) 1156 – Peter the Venerable, French abbot and saint (b. 1092) 1156 – Sverker the Elder, king of Sweden 1294 – Mestwin II, Duke...

of Sicily king. Approximate date – Magnus the Strong is deposed as king of Götaland, when Sverker the Elder proclaims himself king of Sweden. Eustace...

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Sverkerson may refer to: Boleslas Sverkerson, son of Sverker the Elder, King of Sweden and his second wife Richeza of Poland Jon Sverkerson (c. 1201–1222)...

Märta Eriksdotter (Bonde) was the alleged daughter of Erik Knutsson, King of Sweden, flourishing in the first half of the 13th century. Knowledge about...

of Sicily king. Approximate date – Magnus the Strong is deposed as king of Götaland, when Sverker the Elder proclaims himself king of Sweden. August 21...

Finland. As commander of the military in Swedish Finland, but against the wishes of the Swedish government, in 1325 he crossed the Gulf of Finland and attacked...

power since the murder of King Sverker the Elder in 1156. Norway was at the time plagued by a prolonged civil war. Several pretenders to the throne were...

victory. We chose this place. Not the Danes, and not the Sverkers. We chose this time, not the Danes and not the Sverkers. Believe. God stands by those who...

of Inge the Elder; Charles belonged to the c 1130 ascended dynasty of Sverker) 1160–61 Magnus (II) of Sweden (the regnal list published by the royal court...

controversial contributor, Sverker Johansson, created articles with his bot Lsjbot, which was reported to create up to 10,000 articles on the Swedish Wikipedia...

Sweden under the King of Sweden Some texts suggest the Swedish rule of Finland started as early as during the Houses of Sverker and Eric (Sverker I of Sweden...

of Kings Sverker I, Carl I, Sverker II and John I, as well as Queens Richeza the Elder, Benedicta and (probably) Ulvhild are to be found in the abbey ruins...

Erik's elder sister Ingeborg was married to Birger, in the latter's first marriage. Birger was purportedly the son of a female heiress of the Sverker dynasty...

Niels of Denmark, and Sverker I of Sweden. Ulvhild had an important role in the Nordic dynastic connections of her time, but the sources are insufficient...