After one further German attempt in September to force the Storting to depose Haakon failed, Terboven finally decreed that the Royal Family had " forfeited their right to return " and dissolved the democratic political parties.

While Ribbung died in 1226, the revolt was finally quashed in 1227 after the surrender of the last leader of the uprising, Haakon the Crazy's son Knut Haakonsson.

Haakon claimed Halland in 1253, and finally invaded the province on his own in 1256, demanding it as compensation for the looting of Norwegian ships in Danish seas.

They headed for Cave Cove near the entrance to King Haakon Bay, and finally, after several attempts, made their landing there.

After much lobbying and hard work, especially by Kristoffer Lehmkuhl, Norges Handelshøyskole ( NHH ) was finally opened by King Haakon VII on Monday the September 7, 1936.

Further, the Norse community in Greenland agreed to submit to the Norwegian king in 1261, and in 1262 Haakon achieved one of his long-standing ambitions when he managed to incorporate Iceland into his kingdom by utilising the island's internal conflicts in his favour.

The Norwegian kings achieved full authority with developments which reached its peak when the national capital was established at Oslo during the reign of King Haakon V of Norway in 1314.

Haakon defeated the last royal pretender in 1240, thus ending the civil war era.

Princess Máxima is also godmother to two royal babies: Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau ( daughter of Prince Constantijn and Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands ) and of Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway ( son of Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway ).

As a king of the birkebeiner faction, Haakon defeated the uprising of the final bagler royal pretender, Sigurd Ribbung, in 1227.

Having come into conflict with the royal representative in Iceland, Sturla came to Norway in 1263 in an attempt to reconcile with Haakon.

In violation of the Norwegian laws on royal inheritance, Magnus ' younger son Haakon would become king of Norway, with Magnus as regent during his minority.

Haakon VI of Norway (; ) was a monarch of the House of Bjelbo, a royal Swedish dynasty which originated in East Gothland.

The first union between Sweden and Norway occurred in 1319 when the three-year-old Magnus, son of the Swedish royal Duke Eric and of the Norwegian princess Ingeborg, inherited the throne of Norway from his grandfather Haakon V and in the same year was elected King of Sweden, by the Convention of Oslo.

Haakon succeeded to the royal throne when his older brother died without sons.

Remains of two people, deemed to be Haakon and Eufemia, were discovered during excavations of the ruins of that church and reinterred in the royal mausoleum at Akershus Castle.

In the earlier part of the reign of King Haakon, much of the royal power was in the hands of Skule Bårdsson.

A compromise was reached, whereby Inge became king, while earl Haakon became leader of the army, and received half the royal income.

One of the anecdotes told about the Nazi occupation of Norway ( 1940 – 1945 ) is that at a time when the public display of the Norwegian flag or the State Coat of Arms could bring imprisonment or even death, the Norwegians discovered that they could display the ' H ' overlapping the ' 7 ' of the royal cypher of their exiled king, Haakon VII, at the center of a rosemaling design without the German occupation forces seeing anything but a colorful peasant design.

A notable example of a royal monogram is the H7 monogram of King Haakon VII of Norway.

Learning from what had happened to Czechoslovakia in 1938, Hambro was prepared, and with only six hours advance notice, he managed to organize the escape of king Haakon VII and his royal family, the government, prominent members of Parliament and the gold reserves of the Bank of Norway.

Finally, on June 7, which also happened to be the 40th anniversary of the dissolution of Norway's union with Sweden, King Haakon VII and the remaining members of the royal family arrived in Oslo.

His brother Haakon V Magnusson ( 1299 – 1319 ), the last male of the royal line, used the same arms.

By historical coincidence, 7 June was also the date in 1940 when King Haakon VII of Norway and the royal family, along with the Norwegian cabinet and parliament, had to leave the country after escaping the German forces during the WWII invasion of Norway ; and it is also the date in 1945 on which the King returned after 5 years of exile in London.

Skule Bårdsson or Duke Skule ( Old Norse: Skúli Bárðarson ) ( – 24 May 1240 ) was a Norwegian nobleman and claimant to the royal throne against his son-in-law, King Haakon Haakonsson.

After the construction of the stronghold Bohus in 1308 by King Haakon V, the castle on Ragnhildsholmen started to lose its importance as a royal seat.

Although Haakon had children with his mistress Kanga the Young prior to his marriage with Margrete, it was his children with Margrete that was designated as his successors in accordance with a papal recognition.

While Haakon had been unsuccessful in gaining the recognition of Pope Gregory IX, he quickly gained the support from Pope Innocent IV who sought alliances in his struggle with Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II.

On 10 April, the final negotiations between the Norwegians and Germans failed after the Norwegian delegates, led by Haakon VII, refused to accept the German demand for recognition of Quisling's new government.

After the national independence in 1905, publisher Aschehoug ( owned by William Martin Nygaard ) hired librarian Haakon Nyhuus to edit Illustreret norsk konversationsleksikon ( 6 volumes, 1907 – 1913 ), in later editions known as Aschehougs konversasjonsleksikon.

The poem is about the fall of King Haakon I of Norway ; although he is Christian, he is taken by two valkyries to Valhalla, and is there received as one of the Einherjar.

In 1263 troops commanded by Haakon Haakonarson repeated the feat but the ensuing Battle of Largs between Scots and Norse forces, which took place on the shores of the Firth of Clyde, was inconclusive as a military contest.

Haakon retreated to Orkney, where he died in December 1263, entertained on his death bed by recitations of the sagas.

This, combined with pressure from the Norwegian king Haakon IV for the Icelanders to re-join the Norwegian " family ", led the Icelandic chieftains to accept Haakon IV as king by the signing of the Gamli sáttmáli (" Old Covenant ") in 1262.

This strategy eventually led to an invasion by Haakon Haakonsson, King of Norway.

After the stalemate of the Battle of Largs, Haakon retreated to Orkney, where he died in December 1263, entertained on his death bed by recitations of the sagas.

Haakon died overwintering in Orkney, and by 1266, his son Magnus the Law-mender ceded the Kingdom of Man and the Isles, with all territories on mainland Scotland to Alexander III, through the Treaty of Perth.

Documents found on Wallace, and delivered to Edward by John de Segrave, included letters of safe conduct from Haakon V of Norway, Philip IV of France, and John Balliol, with other documents.

* February 15 – Joint kings Magnus Eriksson and Haakon Magnusson of Sweden are both deposed by noblemen, who instead elect Magnus's nephew Albrekt of Mecklenburg new king of Sweden.

Some years later a woman appeared claiming to be her, known as the False Margaret ; she was executed by Haakon V, King Eric's brother and successor, in 1301.

Four hundred years later, the Heimskringla relates that Harald was converted with Earl Haakon, by Otto II.

* Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic saga writer, is murdered by Gissur Þorvaldsson, an emissary of King Haakon IV of Norway.

* Gissur Thorvaldsson is made Earl of Iceland by King Haakon IV of Norway.

The German Emperor Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse, Duke Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Duke Ernst August of Brunswick were Edward's nephews ; Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain, Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden, Crown Princess Marie of Romania, Crown Princess Sophia of Greece, Empress Alexandra of Russia, Grand Duchess Alexandra of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Duchess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen were his nieces ; Haakon VII of Norway was both his nephew by marriage and his son-in-law ; George I of Greece and Frederick VIII of Denmark were his brothers-in-law ; Albert I of Belgium, Charles I and Manuel II of Portugal, and Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria were his second cousins.

The rule of King Haakon and his successors until 1319 has sometimes been called the golden age of the Norwegian medieval kingdom, by later historians.

* Haakon the Good ( by Tora Mosterstong from Moster, Sunnhordland )

* Norway has an embassy in Belgrade, led by ambassador Haakon Blankenborg.

This was Gissur Þorvaldsson, who was made Earl of Iceland by King Haakon IV of Norway for his efforts in bringing Iceland under Norwegian kingship during the Age of the Sturlungs.

When Carl accepted the offer that same evening ( after the approval of his grandfather Christian IX of Denmark ), he immediately endeared himself to his adopted country by taking the Old Norse name of Haakon, a name used by previous Kings of Norway.

Haakon went on to say that he could not appoint any government headed by Quisling because he knew neither the people nor the Storting had confidence in him.

Inspired by Haakon's stand, the Government unanimously advised Haakon not to appoint any government headed by Quisling.