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Margaret I of Denmark. Memorial plate commemorating King Olaf at the site of his death. Olaf II of Denmark (December 1370 – 3 August 1387) [2] [3] was King of Denmark as Olaf II (though occasionally referred to as Olaf III [4] [5]) from 1376 and King of Norway as Olav IV from 1380 until his death. Olaf was the son of Queen Margaret I of ...
- Valdemar IV of Denmark
Accession. He was the youngest son of King Christopher II of...
- False Olaf
The False Olaf (died 1402) was a man who impersonated Olaf...
- Olaf II of Norway
Olaf II Haraldsson (c. 995 – 29 July 1030), also Olav...
- Olaf I of Denmark
Sweyn II of Denmark. Olaf I ( Danish: Oluf; c. 1050 – 18...
- Valdemar IV of Denmark
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 of Harald Grenske, a petty king in Vestfold, Norway, he was posthumously given the title Rex Perpetuus Norvegiae (English: Eternal/Perpetual King of Norway) and canonised at Nidaros by Bishop Grimketel, one year after his death in the Battle ...
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Sweyn II of Denmark. Olaf I ( Danish: Oluf; c. 1050 – 18 August 1095), nicknamed Olaf Hunger, was king of Denmark from 1086 to 1095, following the death of his brother Canute IV the Holy. He was a son of king Sweyn II Estridsson, and the third of Sweyn's sons to rule. He married Ingegard, the daughter of Harald Hardråde, but did not have any ...
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- Roman Catholicism
Mar 11, 2021 · A former Viking and mercenary named Olaf Haraldsson seized the throne of Norway around 1015, becoming King Olaf II. As monarch, he devoted himself to two main goals—increasing his crown authority and spreading Christianity to the jarls, chieftains and commoners who still practiced the region’s traditional religion. King Olaf, however, was too aggressive in his […]
May 17, 2018 · Olaf II Haroldsson (ca. 990-1030), also called St. Olaf, was king of Norway from 1015 to 1028. The first king of the whole of Norway, he organized its final conversion and its integration into Christian Europe. Olaf was a son of Harold Graenske, a magnate, or kinglet, in eastern Norway and presumably related to Harold I Fairhair, the first king ...
Kings of Denmark. Olof the Brash (9th century), founder of the House of Olaf. Olaf I of Denmark ( c. 1050 –1095), ruled 1086–1095. Olaf (II) Haraldsen (died c. 1143 ), Danish anti-king who ruled Scania for a few years from 1139. Olaf II of Denmark, (1370–1387), ruled 1376–1387, also King of Norway as Olaf IV.
Apr 23, 2021 · The conversion of Denmark and Sweden used less force than in Norway. The Danish Harald Bluetooth (Blåtand) Gormsson (c. 910 - c. 987), the king with the bad tooth whom the standard wireless connection has made famous, was baptised around 960, whereas in Norway Olaf Tryggvasson (c. 960-1000) set in motion a wide-scale conversion around 995, and ...
