Silver coin minted during reign of Anund Jacob c.1020-1030
King of Sweden
Reign
1022–1050
Predecessor
Olof Skötkonung
Successor
Emund the Old
Born
c. 25 July 1008 or 1010
Died
1050 (aged 41–42)
Consort
Gunnhildr Sveinsdóttir
Issue
Gyda, Queen of Denmark
House
House of Munsö
Father
Olof Skötkonung
Mother
Estrid of the Obotrites
Anund Jacob or James (Swedish:Anund Jakob; c. 25 July 1008/10 - c. 1050) was King of Sweden from 1022 until around 1050. He is believed to have been born on 25 July, in either 1008 or 1010 as Jakob,[1] the son of King Olof Skötkonung and Queen Estrid. Being the second Christian king of the Swedish realm, his long and partly turbulent reign saw the increasing dissemination of Christianity as well as repeated attempts to influence the balance of power in Scandinavia. Throughout his reign, he tried to subvert the rising Danish hegemony in Scandinavia by supporting the Norwegian monarchy. He also supported the reign of his brother-in-law Yaroslav the Wise in Kievan Rus. He is referred to in positive terms in German and Norse historical sources. His reign was one of the longest in Sweden during the Viking Age and Middle Ages.
^Snorre Sturluson (1992), Nordiska kungasagor: Olav den heliges saga. Stockholm: Fabel", p. 107, 127 (Olav the Saint's Saga, Chapter 88 and 94)
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half-siblings, born by Olof's legitimate Queen Estrid of the Obotrites, were AnundJacob and Ingegerd. According to the 13th-century historian Snorri Sturluson...
dynasty by the Icelandic sagas; Eric the Victorious, Olof Skötkonung, AnundJacob and Emund the Old, were real historical kings, though that does not mean...
and King AnundJacob of Sweden to launch attacks on the Danish in the Baltic Sea. The Swedish and Norwegian navies led by kings AnundJacob and Olaf II...
to Kiev. Despite reinforcements led by Yaroslav's brother-in-law King AnundJacob of Sweden (as Yakun - "blind and dressed in a gold suit" or "handsome...
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correct form of the patronym. The names Eymund and Anund were equivalent enough for the later king AnundJacob to be called Emund (Eymund), in the Westrogothic...
Skötkonung, King of Sweden c. 1000–1022. She was the mother of King AnundJacob of Sweden and the Kievan Rus' saint and grand princess Ingegerd Olofsdotter...
Canute the Great. Sweyn grew up a military leader, and served under king AnundJacob of Sweden for a time. He pillaged the Elbe-Weser area in 1040, but was...
permanently after his brother's death. King Olaf II of Norway and King AnundJacob of Sweden, seeing the combined Anglo-Danish kingdom as a threat – Cnut's...
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expedition to reclaim the throne. Olaf was supported by the Swedish king AnundJacob who wanted to weaken Cnut's power and provided Olaf with 400 men and...
Skötkonung in 1022, and the succession to the Swedish throne of his son AnundJacob bringing Sweden into alliance with Norway, there was cause for a demonstration...
Norway, during the course of a conflict with Sweyn II of Denmark. King AnundJacob dies after a 28-year reign. He is succeeded by his elder half-brother...
in Sweden (who was also his nephew), as well as with the Swedish king AnundJacob, and the three joined forces against Magnus. Their first military exploit...
meaning AnundJacob (1022 – c. 1050). Her mother would then be Queen Gunhild of Sweden. The near-contemporary Adam, however, does not say that Anund and Gunhild...
a nobleman at the service of Swedish King AnundJacob. In 1026, King Olaf II of Norway and King AnundJacob had lost the Battle of the Helgeå. This left...
kingdom is under threat of an invasion by King Magnus I of Norway and King AnundJacob of Sweden. Dharma Pala, Indian ruler of the Pala dynasty (d. 1060) Richard...
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though these assumptions cannot be substantiated by the historical record. Anund Gårdske is recorded only by Adam of Bremen and is not included in any of...
Sweden and his Obotritian mistress Edla. She was the half sister of King AnundJacob of Sweden and sister of King Emund the Old of Sweden. It is said that...
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