King Sverre of Norway was brought up in the Faroe, being stepson of a Faroese man, and relative to Roe, bishop of the islands.

* 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway.

In 1194 when Harald Maddadsson was Earl of Orkney and Shetland a rebellion broke out against King Sverre Sigurdsson of Norway.

After his victory King Sverre placed Shetland under direct Norwegian rule, a state of affairs that continued for nearly two centuries.

* March 9 – Sverre Sigurdsson, King of Norway since 1184

The battle of Kalvskinnet took place in Trondheim in 1179: King Sverre Sigurdsson and his Birkebeiner warriors were victorious against Erling Skakke ( a rival to the throne ).

* June 15 – Battle of Fimreite: King Sverre of Norway defeats and kills his rival, Magnus Erlingsson, to take the throne.

However, this law never came into force, as King Magnus was defeated and killed by Sverre Sigurdsson, who became King Sverre.

Although constantly challenged by various pretenders, Sverre fended off his rivals, and when he died in 1202, he was the first King of Norway to have died of natural causes since 1130.

For his struggles against the Nazi regime and his effort to revive the Holmenkollen ski festival following World War II, King Haakon VII earned the Holmenkollen medal in 1955 ( Shared with Hallgeir Brenden, Veikko Hakulinen, and Sverre Stenersen ), one of only eleven non-Nordic skiers to earn this honour.

The ship symbolizes the nearby naval Battle of Fimreite between King Sverre of Norway and the local King Magnus Erlingsson in the year 1184.

Although King Sverre forged letters to show that the interdict had been lifted, he and his subjects remained under interdict until Sverre's death in 1202.

In 1206 a group of Birkebeiner party soldiers, who fought for Sverre Sigurdsson and his descendants in the Norwegian civil war, smuggled the illegitimate son of Norway's King Håkon Sverresson from Lillehammer to safety in Trondheim.

Such a man was then needed to defend the liberty of the Catholic Church against the encroachments of King Sverre, who wished to make the Church a mere tool of the temporal power.

King Håkon III Sverresson ( 1202 ), son and successor of Sverre, hastened to make peace with the Church, whose liberty had been preserved by the unflinching attitude of the pope and his archbishops.

In 1202, when King Sverre died, he had managed to acquire most of Norway, but in Østerdalen, the Baglers were still very powerful.

Sverre Sigurdsson () ( c. 1145 / 1151 – 9 March 1202 ) was King of Norway from 1177 to 1202.

Supposedly, King Sverre was short, so he usually directed his troops from horseback during battles.

Sverre himself married Margareta, daughter of Erik the Saint and sister of King Knut Eriksson of Sweden.

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# Margareta Eriksdotter, married in 1185 Sverre I of Norway, died in 1202.

According to legend, King Sverre I of Norway ordered the construction of a wooden castle on the headland at the entrance to the harbour.

In Norway, the lawspeakers remained counselors versed in the law until king Sverre I of Norway ( 1184 – 1202 ) made them into his officials.

As King Sverre I, he would rule as king of Norway from 1184 until his death in 1202.

In 1184 King Sverre I of Norway and his party the Birkebeiners had defeated King Magnus V of Norway and the Heklungs at the Battle of Fimreite.

Several prominent opponents of Sverre, including bishop Nikolas Arnesson of Oslo, who had been a halfbrother of King Inge I of Norway and exiled archbishop Erik Ivarsson met at the marketplace of Halör in Skåne, then part of Denmark.

Philip's mother Margrét was the half-sister of King Inge I of Norway and full sister of Nikolás Arnason, bishop of Oslo and another prominent opponent of King Sverre and the Birkebeiner.

The most seriously discredited alleged son, practically regarded as an impostor by many modern academics, was Sverre I, who arrived in Norway from his native Faroe Islands, took up leadership in the embattled and heirless Birkebeiner party of the civil war, and claimed to be the natural son of Sigurd II by Gunhild, Sverre's attested mother.

Thus, Sverre I started the Sverre dynasty ( the " Faroese branch "), a putative branch of the alleged ancient dynasty.

* Sverre I of Norway ( 1151 – 1202 ), grew up here and went to the priest school.

The marriage was arranged by the earl Erling Skakke and it was annulled in 1184 by the archbishop of Nidaros, on the initiative of Cecilia's half-brother, king Sverre I of Norway.

It has its name after king Sverre I of Norway who traveled here with his army.

The third and fourth volumes, released in 1952 and 1955, are about medieval kings: Sverre I and Harald I.

* Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway, Prince of Norway

* Sverre of Norway, king

The first mention of the name is from the saga of Sverre of Norway, from about 1200.

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 ).

Haakon, his father Magnus and his brother Eric were all members of the Swedish-Ostrogothian House of Bjelbo which had succeeded the House of Eric in Sweden and the House of Sverre in Norway.

* 2010: Riksteatret ( Norway ); with Bjørn Sundquist ( James ), Liv Ullmann ( Mary ), Anders Baasmo Christiansen ( Jamie ), Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen ( Edmund ) and Viktoria Winge ( Cathleen ), directed by Stein Winge.

Long-serving goalkeeper Sverre Andersen was the most prominent player in this generation, while Edgar Falch also earned several caps for Norway.

* 1500m – gold medal: Sverre Farstad ( Norway )

The name Braastad was introduced when Sverre Braastad ( 1879 – 1979 ) from Gjøvik, Norway, married the daughter of cognac producer Tiffon, Edith Rousseau, in 1913, and took over Tiffon, founded by Médéric Rousseau in 1875.

To regulate ecclesiastical affairs, which had suffered during the struggles with Sverre, Innocent IV in 1247 sent Cardinal William of Sabina as legate to Norway.

After Magnus fell at the Battle of Fimreite in 1184, Sverre ruled as sole king of Norway.

In the following year, Sverre travelled to Norway to seek his destiny.