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Sweyn III Grathe (Danish: Svend III Grathe; c. 1125 – 23 October 1157) was the king of Denmark between 1146 and 1157, in shifting alliances with Canute V and his own cousin Valdemar I. In 1157, the three agreed to a tripartition of Denmark.
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Sweyn of Denmark may refer to: Sweyn Forkbeard (960–1014), King of Denmark, England, and Norway as Sweyn I. Sweyn Knutsson (1016–1035), son of Cnut the Great. Sweyn II of Denmark (1019–1074/76), King of Denmark. Sweyn the Crusader (1050–1097), son of Sweyn II. Svend Tronkræver (d. 1104), son of Sweyn II, potential claimant to Danish ...
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Sweyn Forkbeard ( Old Norse: Sveinn Haraldsson tjúguskegg [ˈswɛinː ˈhɑrˌɑldsˌson ˈtjuːɣoˌskeɡː]; [3] Danish: Svend Tveskæg; 17 April 963 [1] – 3 February 1014) was King of Denmark from 986 until his death in 1014, King of England for five weeks from December 1013 until his death, and King of Norway from 999/1000 until 1013/14.
Sweyn , c.960–1014, king of Denmark (986–1014), son of Harold Bluetooth. Although baptized, he reverted to paganism and rebelled against his father, who was killed in battle. Sweyn was expelled shortly after his accession by the Swedish king Eric the Victorious, but his subsequent marriage to Eric's widow led to his restoration to the ...
Biography. Ancestry. References. Source. Sweyn the Crusader ( Danish: Svend Korsfarer ); c. 1050 – 1097 at Philomelium (modern-day Akşehir, Turkey) was a Danish crusader . Biography. Prince Sweyn's body was found around 1645, a painting by Karel van Mander III, at the National Gallery of Denmark.
