Haakon IV of Norway
King of Norway
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He ruled Norway for 46 years and ended a century of civil war by killing the last man who stood against him — his own regent. Then he turned outward, building a stone kingdom and a fleet so formidable that popes and emperors both wanted him on their side.
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Haakon IV was born around 1204 into Norway's civil war era, a Birkebeiner king who spent his early reign under the regency of Earl Skule Bårdsson. He crushed the final Bagler pretender, Sigurd Ribbung, in 1227, but the decisive break came in 1240 when Skule declared himself king — Haakon had him killed and the internal wars died with him. With peace secured, he turned Norway outward: importing European literature, raising monumental stone buildings, commanding a naval fleet so powerful that the pope offered him the imperial crown, Irish kings offered him their High Kingship, and the French kin…
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