When king Magnus Ladulås died, Torkel became regent for the underage king Birger, being the highest state official and because Magnus ' foreign-born widow, Hedwig of Holstein, was not trusted to such powerful position yet.

In the struggles between king Birger Magnusson and his brothers, the dukes Eric and Valdemar, Torkel was faithfully on the king's side.

Retired Major General Torkel Hovland claims that General Ruge to a large degree was responsible for the ease of which Nazi-German forces were able to occupy Norway.

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.

* Torkel Franzen ( 2005 ), Godel's theorem: An Incomplete Guide to its Use and Abuse, A. K.

* Torkel Franzén ( 1950 – 2006 ), a Swedish academic

After the two dukes had poisoned the king's mind against his faithful marshal, Torkel was captured and taken to Stockholm, where he was beheaded.

The dukes were so hateful against Torkel that his body was entered on the place of execution.

In Torkel Klingberg's 2009 book The Overflowing Brain, he proposes that working memory is enhanced through exposure to excess neural activation.

* Torkel Knutsson leads Sweden in beginning the Third Swedish Crusade against unchristianized Finnish Karelia.

Torkel Weis-Fogh, an eminent pioneer on the study of insect flight, was a student of August Krogh's.

Torkel hailed from an old noble family of West Geatish ancestry and was related to the Folkungs, the royal family, and like them, he had a lion in his coat of arms.

When Tavastland had been attacked by the Republic of Novgorod, in 1292, marshal Torkel led the third Swedish crusade against Novgorod, in 1293 and conquered parts of Karelia, where he founded the stronghold of Viborg.

However, Torkel was finally struck by the vengeance of his enemies.

Torkel was married twice.

Torkel's powerful personality and tragic end has been the matter of poetry, in e. g. B. v. Beskow's tragedy Torkel Knutsson.

A statue of Torkel was raised, in 1908, on the square Rådhustorget in Viborg.

Thorgil Sprakling ( also called Torkel Styrbjörnsson, Torgils or Sprakalägg ) was a Dane, killed at the Battle of Swold, whose grandsons became kings of Denmark and England.

Thorkell the Tall, also known as Thorkell the High in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles ( Old Norse: Þorke ( ti ) ll inn hávi ; ; Swedish ; Torkel Höge: Danish: Torkild den Høje ) was a Jomsviking, a son of the Scanian chieftain Strut-Harald, a brother of Jarl Sigvaldi, commander of the Jomvikings and the legendary stronghold, mythical Jomsborg, on the Island of Wollin, while himself a notable lord.

Partially in contrast to what Terje Holm as well as Torkel Hovland claim, military historian Tom Kristensen emphasizes that even though Otto Ruge participated in the downsizing of the Norwegian Army during the early 1930s, he also warned against the renewed threat after 1935 and pointed to the weakness of the Norwegian mobilization system.

In 1440 he was elected German king as Frederick IV and in 1452 crowned Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III by Pope Nicholas V. In 1452, at the age of 37, he married the 18-year-old Infanta Eleanor, daughter of King Edward of Portugal, whose dowry helped him to alleviate his debts and cement his power.

Strong international alliances would also have helped validate his military coup that year over the Omride king, Joram.

He paid more attention to Hanover and surrounded himself with Germans, making him an unpopular king, However he did build up the army and created a more stable political system in Britain and helped bring peace to northern Europe.

Once there, they helped Seuthes II make himself king of Thrace, before being recruited into the army of the Spartan general Thibron.

The Persian king Khosrau I, sent troops under the command of Vahriz, who helped Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan to drive the Ethiopian Aksumites out of Yemen.

In 1401 Sigismund helped an uprising against Wenceslaus, during the course of which the Bohemian king was taken prisoner, and Sigismund ruled Bohemia for nineteen months.

He helped the king deal with disaffection in Gascony, but their reconciliation was a hollow one.

Taranto won the first of two wars against Rome for the control of Southern Italy: it was helped by Pyrrhus, king of Greek Epirus, who surprised Rome with the use of elephants in battle, a thing never seen before by the Romans.

Although very hostile to Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, Badlesmere helped to make peace between the king and the earl in 1318, and was a member of the middle party which detested alike Edward's minions, like the Despensers, and his violent enemies like Lancaster.

During Simon de Montfort's struggle with King Henry, Boniface initially helped Montfort's cause, but later supported the king.

Apollo also helped Admetus win the hand of Alcestis, the daughter of Pelias, king of Iolcus.

Apollo again helped the newly wed king, this time by making the Fates drunk, extracting from them a promise that if anyone would want to die instead of Admetus, they would allow it.

After fleeing to Minos, she helped cure the king of Minos of his genital sickness, and was given a dog whom no quarry could escape and an infallible javelin.

Meanwhile, Nguyễn Kim, a former official in the Lê court, revolted against the Mạc and helped king Lê Trang Tông restore the Lê court in the Thanh Hóa area.

Along with others, he helped Heracles capture the four savage mares of Diomedes the king of the Thracian Bistones.

Turnus ' supporters included Latinus's wife, Amata, Juturna, his sister and minor river / fountain deity, Mezentius, the deposed king of the Etruscans, and Queen Camilla of the Volsci, who helped him fight Aeneas.

A further devastation of the town, as inflicted in 1389, would have been an embarrassment for the new king ; his expensive programme of building at the castle helped protect against this.

Wilfrid went to Mercia, where he helped missionaries and acted as bishop for the Mercian king.

Æthelheard's succession to the throne was disputed by an ætheling, Oswald, and it may be that Mercian support for Æthelheard in the unsettled aftermath of Ine's abdication both helped establish Æthelheard as king and also brought him into the sphere of influence of Æthelbald, the king of Mercia.

When, in about November 1767, she was entrapped into a clandestine marriage with an adventurer who passed for a Swedish count ( the Count de Horn ), Reynolds helped extricate her, and it was doubtless owing to Reynolds's good offices that she was among the signatories to the petition to the king for the establishment of the Royal Academy.

In January 1155 Theobald helped to secure the Chancellorship for his protégé, Thomas Becket, an action that Barlow speculates happened because Theobald hoped to secure more influence with the king through Becket.

Seeking new sources of fish and other resources, Amerike and other Bristol merchants helped fund an expedition beyond Iceland authorized by the king.

When Mowbray rebelled again in 1095, St-Calais helped the king put down the rebellion, and Mowbray was captured.

Realizing the danger and gravity of this situation, Crown Prince Dan of Yan had sent the assassin Jing Ke to kill the Qin king, but this failure only helped to fuel the rage and determination of the Qin king, and he increased the number of troops to conquer the Yan state.