Haakon VI of Norway
King of Norway and Sweden
- Fame55.4
- Momentum4.1
- Norway rank#242
- Fame55.4
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- Norway rank#242
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King of Norway at three, co-ruler of Sweden in his twenties, then deposed — Haakon VI spent his reign caught between his father's ambitions and his father-in-law's hostility, maneuvering his son onto two thrones before dying at forty.
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Haakon Magnusson became King of Norway in 1343 as a child, the younger son of Magnus Eriksson who ruled both Norway and Sweden. Magnus's obvious favoritism drove Haakon's older brother Eric to rebellion and the seizure of Southern Sweden; when Eric died in 1359, Haakon stepped into the Swedish succession as his father's co-ruler three years later. That joint reign lasted only until 1364, when exiled Swedish nobles led by Bo Jonsson Grip installed Albert of Mecklenburg and pushed both father and son out — efforts to retake Sweden failed. His 1363 marriage to Margaret of Denmark dragged him into…
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