Search results
Sweyn III of Denmark. Sweyn III Grathe [Note 1] ( 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. Sweyn attempted to kill his rivals at the peace banquet, and was ...
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 ...
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 ...
People also ask
Who was Sweyn III Grathe?
When did Sweyn become king?
Who is Sweyn II of Denmark?
Who was Sweyn the illegitimate son?
Sweyn was the illegitimate son of King Erik II the Memorable and the concubine Thunna. Sweyn travelled with Eric II to Norway in the mid-1130s, when his father fought King Niels to win the Danish throne. When Eric II died in 1137, he was succeeded by Eric III, and Sweyn was sent to the court of Conrad III of Germany.
Sweyn III of Denmark. 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. Read more on Wikipedia. Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sweyn III of ...
King of denmark. This page was last edited on 18 April 2024, at 14:35. All structured data from the main, Property, Lexeme, and EntitySchema namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; text in the other namespaces is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
