Magnus, whose birth year has never been confirmed in modern times, was probably the second son of Birger Jarl ( Birger Magnuson, 1200 – 66 ) and Princess Ingeborg, herself the sister of the childless king Eric Ericson of Sweden, thus a daughter of king Eric the Survivor and his queen, Richeza of Denmark.

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

This was a choice of historical importance as it was to make Birger a jarl powerful enough to ultimately wind up the office, thus making him the last Swedish jarl ever, even called as the " first true king of Sweden " by historians.

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

It was the Swedish regent, Birger Jarl, who established Swedish rule in Finland through the Second Swedish Crusade, most often dated to 1249, which was aimed at Tavastians who had stopped being Christian again.

Known jarls from the 12th and 13 century were Birger Brosa, Jon jarl, Folke Birgersson, Karl Döve, Ulf Fase and the most powerful of all jarls and the last to hold the title, Birger jarl.

The most celebrated saint of Sweden was the daughter of the knight, Birger Persson of the family of Finsta, governor and lawspeaker of Uppland, and one of the richest landowners of the country, and his wife, a member of the so-called Lawspeaker branch of the Folkunga family.

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.

During the 15 years to follow, Birger then consolidated his position and was probably one of the most influential men years before being formally given the title jarl in 1248 by King Eric XI.

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.

Among its most important works of art are the relief-decorated well and the tomb of archbishop Birger Gunnersen, created by Adam van Düren in the 1510s.

He was the son of Magnus Minniskiöld, and the elder brother of Birger Jarl, one of the most powerful men of his time in Scandinavia.

He married the noblewoman Ingrid Ylva, and fathered several sons who would influence early Swedish history, most notably Birger Jarl.

Its director Birger Elmér was reporting directly to select key persons at cabinet level, most likely defence minister Sven Andersson and Prime minister Olof Palme.

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.

Eric XI was the last king of the agnatic line of this dynasty and he died apparently without surviving children ( though some romantic genealogies, and later research influenced by them, have attributed one or two daughters to him ; those ladies were more likely daughters of his sister and Birger jarl ).

# Birger, born c. 1280, King of Sweden.

Ingrid Ylva Sunesdotter of Bjelbo ( born c. 1180s, died c. 1250 – 1255 ), was a Swedish noblewoman, the wife of Magnus Minnesköld of Bjälbo and the mother of regent Birger Jarl.

Several of his sons, born or raised by Ingrid Ylva, would come to hold positions of power when grown: Eskil became lawspeaker in Westrogothia, Karl and Bengt both became bishops of Linköping and Birger became Jarl of Sweden, and later had his son elected king.

That title ( derived from German " herzog ") then replaced the older Nordic " jarl ", both translated from the Latin title dux, which ( for the first time known ) had already been born by Birger himself ( see introduction to list below ).

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.

** Erik Magnusson, Swedish Duke, brother of King Birger ( starved in a dungeon at Nyköpingshus )

** Valdemar Magnusson, Swedish Duke, brother of King Birger ( starved in a dungeon at Nyköpingshus )

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

Birger Ruud had won the gold medal in the ski jumping event at both the 1932 and 1936 Winter Games.

Magnus ordered his kinsman Thurchetel, the Lord High Constable of Sweden as the guardian of his heir, the future king Birger of Sweden, who was about ten years old at father's death.

Died of starvation 1318 at Nyköpingshus Castle while imprisoned by his brother King Birger.

Died of starvation 1318 at Nyköpingshus Castle while imprisoned by his brother King Birger.

Birger was hanged in Benton on April 19, 1928, at 9: 48 a. m., in the last public hanging in Illinois.

During the banquet at Nyköpingshus, Birger arrested Valdemar and Erik and committed them to the dungeon, where, according to legend, they starved to death.

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 1252, a year after another victory over the folkungs at the Battle of Herrevadsbro ( Slaget vid Herrevadsbro ), Birger wrote two carefully dated letters, the first mention of Stockholm interpreted as the foundation of the city or at least some sort of special interest in the location.

Birger died on 21 October 1266, at Jälbolung in Västergötland.

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 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.

The first of the major project finds are attributed to the young Swedish paleontologist, Anders Birger Bohlin, then serving as the field advisor at Zhoukoudian.

Sverre revealed to Birger Brosa his claim to the throne, but Birger was at first unwilling to give any aid.

The project was started by Bo Bjernekull of the Ljunga plant and Birger Lindberg at SAAB in Linköping.

In December 1305, King Birger and the dukes arrived at Torkel's estate Lena ( where formerly the Battle of Lena had taken place ) in Västergötland, and arrested Torkel who was taken to Stockholm in chains.

The antagonists in long run were finally the House of Sverker in Östergötland and the House of Eric in Västergötland and Uppland ( Saint Eric was killed and buried in the latter province, others in the dynasty were buried in Varnhem Abbey in the former province as later also Birger Jarl was, a relative to the dynasty ), which alternated on the throne for several generations, until in the 1220s the Eric dynasty got the upper hand, and the Sverker dynasty became extinct ( at least in the male line ).

At the same time, Valdemar married to Kristina, the daughter of Torgils Knutsson, constable and virtual ruler of Sweden during the early reign of King Birger.