Haakon Sigurdsson (1147 – 7 July 1162), also known as Haakon Herdebrei meaning Haakon Broadshoulder, was King of Norway (being Haakon II) from 1157 until 1162 during the civil war era in Norway.[1]
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Haakon Sigurdsson (1147 – 7 July 1162), also known as Haakon Herdebrei meaning Haakon Broadshoulder, was King of Norway (being HaakonII) from 1157 until...
Haakon VII (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈhôːkʊn]; born Prince Carl of Denmark; 3 August 1872 – 21 September 1957) was King of Norway from November 1905 until...
Great Haakon Magnusson of Norway (1068–94) HaakonII of Norway (died 1162), Haakon Herdebrei Haakon III of Norway (1170s–1204), Haakon Sverreson Haakon IV...
Euphemia, daughter of Vitslav II, Prince of Rügen. In 1301 she bore Haakon his younger daughter, Ingeborg Håkonsdotter. Since Haakon had not officially married...
Olaf II Haraldsson (c. 995 – 29 July 1030), also Olav Haraldsson, later known as Saint Olaf and Olaf the Holy, was King of Norway from 1015 to 1028. Son...
beyond any man, and was expert in all exercises.[1] HaakonII Sigurdsson (Hákon), known as Haakon the Broadshouldered (1147–1162). Made king by Sigurd...
Haakon Haraldsson (c. 920–961), also Haakon the Good (Old Norse: Hákon góði, Norwegian: Håkon den gode) and Haakon Adalsteinfostre (Old Norse: Hákon Aðalsteinsfóstri...
– 15 June 1184 Coronation 1163/1164, in Bergen Predecessor Inge I and HaakonII Successor Sverre Born 1156 Etne, Hordaland Died 15 June 1184 (aged 27–28)...
a saint. After Eystein's death, his supporters rallied around the young Haakon the Broadshouldered, Sigurd Munn's son, Eystein's nephew. They continued...
skirmish with king Haakon’s forces. On 3 February the same year, Inge was defeated and killed, leading his men into battle against King Haakon near Oslo, after...
whether King Sverre was son of King Sigurd II of Norway, whether Haakon IV of Norway was son of King Haakon III Each of them came from "nowhere" and won...
to Harald Greycloak's rival, Haakon Sigurdsson, Earl of Lade, who eventually captured Harald Greycloak's kingdom. Haakon thereafter ruled Norway (except...
Haakon VI (Norwegian: Håkon, Swedish: Håkan; c. August 1340 – 11 September 1380), also known as Håkan Magnusson, was King of Norway from 1343 until his...
defeat the 15-year-old King HaakonII (Sigurdsson), who is killed in battle in Romsdal after a 5-year reign. July 15 – Ladislaus II, duke of Bosnia, is declared...
claimant to the throne, which was left vacant with the death of King HaakonII. Archbishop Erlendsson agreed to terms under which Magnus inherited the...
defeated and killed, while fighting the forces of HaakonII (the Broadshouldered). He is succeeded by Haakon with the 5-year-old Magnus V as co-ruler, but...
Inge I of Norway killed after being defeated in battle by HaakonII of Norway 1162 HaakonII of Norway killed in the battle of Sekken 1167 Charles VII...
until his death. Olaf was the son of Queen Margaret I of Denmark and King Haakon VI of Norway, and grandson of kings Magnus IV of Sweden and Valdemar IV...
Wilhelm II, German Emperor were all first cousins of King George V of the United Kingdom. Nicholas was also a first cousin of both King Haakon VII and...
Haakon Forwald (born 1978 in Røyken) is a leading member of the extreme right-wing Nordic paramilitary group Nordic Strength (Norwegian: Nordisk Styrke)...
regency of Haakon the Crazy led to renewed conflict between the Birkebeiner and the Bagler factions, the latter supported militarily by Valdemar II of Denmark...
when Harald's grandson Harald II died in 970. Another example is that King Sverre's claim of being the son of King Sigurd II is disputed by modern scholars...
Norway from 1957 until his death in 1991. Olav was the only child of King Haakon VII of Norway and Maud of Wales. He became heir apparent to the Norwegian...
Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication...
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