Professor of art history Jan Svanberg is of the opinion that since Birger Jarl ( died 1266 ) wore a ducal coronet of English and continental European design, he actually was a duke, and that his Latin title of Dux Sueorum should be given as Duke and Regent of Sweden in English.

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While the absence of a perpendicular city plan in medieval Stockholm seem do indicate a spontaneous growth, it is known German merchants invited by Birger jarl played an important role in the foundation of the city.

* The Swedish city of Stockholm is founded by Birger Jarl.

* 1252 – The Swedish city of Stockholm is founded by Birger Jarl.

* February – After the death of Erik Eriksson on February 2, Valdemar I, who is the eldest son of Birger jarl, is elected king of Sweden and becomes the first Swedish king of the Folkung house.

* March – King Birger of Sweden is deposed and is forced to flee to Denmark.

* December 18 – Upon the death of Magnus III, he is succeeded by his 10-year-old son Birger as king of Sweden.

Although Sweden is an elective monarchy at this time, Birger has been appointed heir to the throne already in 1284.

Fairfield is most famous for being the hometown of the Shelton Brothers Gang, notorious bootleggers who fought it out with the Harrisburg, Illinois based Birger Gang to control criminal activities in Southern Illinois.

It is known that Birger grew up and spent his adolescence in Bjälbo, Östergötland but the exact date of his birth remains uncertain and available historical sources are contradictory.

There is a statue of the great duke in his own square Birger Jarls Torg next to Riddarholm Church in Stockholm, erected by Bengt Erland Fogelberg at the expense of the Over-Governor of Stockholm in 1854.

The Hotel Birger Jarl is located in Stockholm's Norrmalm neighborhood.

Although Swedish-speaking culture had been expanding eastwards through the Åland islands and along what are now the coastal regions of Finland for several centuries, the Second Swedish Crusade, undertaken by Birger Jarl in the later 1240s, is generally taken as the moment when the region now called Finland was incorporated into the Swedish state.

The work of Birger Nerman ( 1925 ), which argues that Sweden held a senior rank among the existing European states at the time, is a nationalist reaction to the academic historiography that is critical of the older sources of history.

While Stockholm is likely to have expanded quickly, it remains much debated if the expansion was planned in accordance to the model of southern prototypes ( e. g. such as Lübeck ) and, as historical sources traditionally have rendered it, governed directly by Birger Jarl ( 1210 – 1266 ) and Magnus Ladulås ( 1240 – 1290 ), or, as some historian have argued, a somewhat desultory if not entirely unmethodical process.

The eastern side of its base is decorated with a faux tomb and gold-plated sarcophagus of Birger Jarl.

Support from Earl Birger Brosa of Sweden is more a sign of pragmatic politics on the part of the Swedes, as their ally party in Norway needed a new leader and had chosen Sverre.

Birger is a Scandinavian name from Old Norse, bjarga, meaning " to help, to save, to protect ".

Birger is primarily a masculine given name, but can also be found as a surname.

* 6 July Lundborg is picked up from the ice floe by his Swedish co-pilot Birger Schyberg in a light Moth ski-biplane.

But he also had a very lyrical and soft side to him as an actor, something he showed in the TV production of Hans Christian och sällskapet ( where he plays a village priest who suffers a great personal tragedy as his wife loses her mind after having a baby ) and in the TV adaptation of Birger Sjöberg's Frida och hennes vän ( based on Sjöberg's Frida's Book ) where he plays the light-hearted, daydreaming early 1900s love-struck suitor of Frida.

Some historians have suggested that the Swedish army was already under the command of the very young Birger Jarl, eight years before his appointment to the position of jarl.

After the sensational downfall of the Birger gang and the repeal of the Volstead Act in 1933, West City earned much of its income from legitimate taverns and nightclubs.

Storkyrkan was first mentioned in a written source dated 1279 and according to tradition was originally built by Birger Jarl, the founder of the city itself.

Petersson resigned from the cabinet in 1909 ( together with the minister of foreign affairs Erik Birger Trolle and the minister without portfolio Gustaf Roos ) because of a disagreement with Lindman over the work of the parliamentary committees and the interpretation of the Riksdagsordningen ( or R. O., the law regulating the work of the parliament ).

There were also fewer songs, and together they didn't compose one narrative, but were rather stories in and of themselves ; stories which were based on Nordic mythology and were written by the saga author Birger Sivertsen and his wife Kristin.

As part of a dual strategy to avoid war via deterrence and appeasement of Germany, British leaders warned that they would go to war if Germany attacked Poland while at the same time tried to avoid war by holding unofficial talks with such would be peace-makers like the British newspaper proprietor Lord Kemsley, the Swedish businessman Axel Wenner-Gren and another Swedish businessmen Birger Dahlerus who attempted to work out the basis for a peaceful return of Danzig.

A contra-rotating steam turbine, usually known as the Ljungström turbine, was originally invented by Swedish Engineer Fredrik Ljungström ( 1875 – 1964 ) in Stockholm, and in partnership with his brother Birger Ljungström he obtained a patent in 1894.

The Norwegian government of Prime Minister Johan Nygaardsvold, with the exception of foreign minister Halvdan Koht and minister of defense Birger Ljungberg, was largely caught by surprise when it became apparent in the early hours of April 9, 1940 that Nazi Germany had launched an invasion of Norway.

Mayor Adams aligned himself with the Shelton Brothers Gang and thus became the bitter enemy of Charlie Birger and his men.

Haakon made a deal with Swedish leader Earl Birger in 1249 about a joint Swedish-Norwegian invasion into Halland and Scania, but the agreement was eventually abandoned by the Swedes ( see Treaty of Lödöse ).

Haakon had also reconciled with the Swedes when he had his son Haakon the Young marry a daughter of Earl Birger.

Birger, thus most likely born at the time for the Battle of Gestilren in 1210 and named after Birger Brosa, one of the most potent men of the era who died in 1202, started his career in the mid 1230s by marrying Ingeborg Eriksdotter, the sister of King Eric XI of Sweden according to the Eric's Chronicle ( Erikskrönikan ) in fierce rivalry with other suitors.

In 1247, royal troops led by Birger at the Battle of Sparrsätra ( Slaget vid Sparrsätra ) fought with Folkung forces led by pretender Holmger Knutsson, son of King Canute II.

In 1249, Birger succeeded in ending a decades-long period of hostilities with Norway.

It has been suggested Birger chose the location for several reasons: Partly to curb domestic magnates by isolating them with a " lock of Lake Mälaren ", offering a defense to the lands around Mälaren from invading enemies in the process ; and to create a commercial bridgehead to attract German merchants.

Birger thus combined financial support from Germany with papal political support to consolidate his own position.

The first building on this site was a fortress with a core tower built in the 13th century by Birger Jarl to defend Lake Mälaren.

In the crypt, van Düren created a well decorated with interesting reliefs and a monumental sarcophagus for the most recent archbishop of Lund, Birger Gunnersen.

There he met with the local ruler, Birger Brosa, who was married to Sigurd Munn ’ s sister, Brigit Haraldsdotter.

II National Cross Country Championship in Pensacola Florida under coach Grame Badger with Shannon Payne finishing 10th, Jenna Dorsey-Spitz 25th, and Ashley Birger 33rd.

The second marriage in 1200 with Ingegerd Birgersdotter of Bjelbo, daughter of the Folkunge Jarl Birger Brosa produced a son and heir, Jon ( 1201 – 1222 ), who was chosen king of Sweden 1216 as John I of Sweden.

The only member of the cabinet with in-depth knowledge of the mobilization system, defence minister Birger Ljungberg, failed to explain the procedure to his colleagues.

In 2010, to celebrate 800 years since the birth of Birger Jarl, the founder of Stockholm, the museum opened an exhibition with a reconstruction of his face.

People with the name Birger include:

In Bruges, Priske competed with fan favourites Olivier De Cock and Birger Maertens for a place in the starting line-up.