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Nidaros Cathedral
- It is the traditional location for the consecration of the King of Norway and the northernmost medieval cathedral in the world. Nidaros Cathedral was built beginning in 1070 to memorialize the burial place of Olaf II of Norway, the king who was killed in 1030 in the Battle of Stiklestad.
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Thus the new king became Haakon VII, King of Norway. His two-year-old son Alexander, the heir apparent, was renamed Olav and became Crown Prince Olav. The new royal family arrived in the capital Kristiania (later Oslo) on 25 November. Haakon VII was sworn in as king of Norway on 27 November.
The list of Norwegian monarchs (Norwegian: kongerekken or kongerekka) begins in 872: the traditional dating of the Battle of Hafrsfjord, after which victorious King Harald Fairhair merged several petty kingdoms into that of his father.
Name ReignPortraitBirth, ParentsMarriage (s) IssueHarald III Sigurdsson [30] [31] Harald ...c. 1015 Son of Sigurd Syr and Åsta ...(1) Elisiv of Kiev Two daughters (2) Tora ...25 September 1066 Stamford Bridge, ...Magnus II Haraldsson [32] 1066–1069c. 1049 Eldest son of Harald III and Tora ...Never married28 April 1069 Nidaros Aged 19–20Olav III Haraldsson [32] Olaf Kyrre ...c. 1050 Youngest son of Harald III and ...Ingerid of Denmark No issue22 September 1093 Haukbø, Rånrike (now ...Haakon (II) Magnusson [33] Haakon ...c. 1069 Illegitimate son of Magnus IINever married1095 Dovrefjell Aged 25–26Christian Frederick, who was King of Norway briefly in 1814, the first king of the Norwegian 1814 constitution and struggle for independence, was his great-granduncle. In 1905, Carl, taking the name Haakon, ascended the throne of independent Norway to succeed his deposed great-uncle Oscar II.
Harald Fairhair, regarded as the first Norwegian king, united the petty kingships of Norway into a single realm in about 885. From the time of Harald Fairhair until the present day, Norway has had more than 60 named sovereigns.
Dec 19, 2011 · Beginning in 1163, new monarchs were consecrated to their office during the coronation ceremony. King Haakon VII and Queen Maud were the last Norwegian monarchs to be crowned. In 1958, when their son King Olav V inherited the throne, the coronation ceremony was replaced with a consecration ceremony.
Dec 13, 2019 · Harald Fairhair’s victory at Hafrsfjord is widely considered in folk celebrations as the birth of an independent and unified Kingdom of Norway. And that is somewhat correct – after his great victory, Harald proclaimed himself as the sole king of a unified Norway – without opposition to his claim.
Aug 1, 2011 · Carl III Johan (Carl XIV Johan of Sweden), the son of a lawyer from Pau, France, became king of Norway and Sweden in 1818. He took the motto "Folkets kjærlighet - min belønning", meaning “The people’s love is my reward.”
