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	Haakon IV. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		(Haakon Haakonsson), 1204–63, king of Norway (1217–63), illegitimate son of Haakon III and grandson of Sverre.
		Haakon Haakonsson overcame the rival claims of Earle Skule (Inge’s brother), and in 1223 a great council at Bergen reaffirmed his kingship.
		Haakon, then recognized by Pope Innocent IV, was solemnly crowned in 1247 at Bergen by a papal legate.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ha/Haakon4.html (207 words)

	Talk:Haakon VII of Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Haakon VII and Maud descend from those earls of Orkney at least through Matthew Stuart, Earl of Lennox, grandfather of James I of England.
		Birgitta's alleged descendant Charles VIII of Sweden ascended the Norwegian throne in 1449 briefly.
		Haakon IV, who ascended claiming to be bastard of Haakon III, founded the last native sub-branch (dynasty) of kings of Norway.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Haakon_VII_of_Norway (1257 words)

	Encyclopedia: Haakon IV of Norway
		Haakon III (HÃ¥kon Sverreson) was a king of Norway from 1202-1204.
		The future Haakon IV is claimed to have been sired by Haakon III Sverresson to Inga of Varteig.
		In the earlier part of his reign much of the royal power was in the hands of Earl Skule, Haakon's father-in-law, who intrigued against the king until 1239, when he proceeded to open hostility and was put to death.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Haakon-IV-of-Norway (1427 words)

	Haakon IV of Norway -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Håkon IV (1204–December 15, 1263), also called Haakon the Old, was declared to be the son of (additional info and facts about Håkon III of Norway) Håkon III of Norway, the leader of the (additional info and facts about Birkebeiner) Birkebeiner, who had seized control over large parts of Norway in 1202.
		Haakon was wintering in the (An archipelago of about 70 islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland) Orkney Islands, when he was ill and died on December 15 1263.
		Worn out by internal strife fostered by Haakon’s emissaries, the (An island republic on the island of Iceland; became independent of Denmark in 1944) Icelandic chiefs acknowledged the Norwegian king as overlord in 1262.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/haakon_iv_of_norway1.htm (517 words)

	Haakon IV of Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Håkon IV (1204 – December 15, 1263), (Norwegian Håkon Håkonsson, Old Norse Hákon Hákonarson) also called Haakon the Old.
		She claimed he was the illegitimate son of Håkon III of Norway, the leader of the birkebeiner faction in the ongoing civil war against the bagler.
		In 1263 a dispute with the Scottish king concerning the Hebrides, a Norwegian possession, induced Haakon to undertake an expedition to the west of Scotland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Haakon_IV_of_Norway (1248 words)

	Norwegian regents
		Christian IV King of Denmark and Norway from 1588 (reigning from 1596), son av Frederik II.
		Haakon was appointed king by the parliament after the dissolution of the Swedish-Norwegian union.
		Haakons straight attitude when the Germans occupied Norway in 1940, resulted in him being a gathering, national symbol more then ever.
	www.pvv.ntnu.no /~williaj/christine/english/regent.htm (5950 words)

	Namnlöst dokument
		He died on the 23 of April 1217 and was succeeded by Håkon IV.
		Married 26 of October 1406 in Lund to Filippa (died 6 of January 1430), daughter of King Henry IV of England and Mary de Bohun.
		Parents: King Frederik IV and Louis of Mecklenburg-Güstrow.
	www.warholm.nu /Kingnor.html (3931 words)

	HAAKON IV - Online Information article about HAAKON IV
		HAAKON IV., surnamed " the Old " (1204—1263), was declared to be the son of Haakon III., who died shortly before the former's See also:
		BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")
		internal strife fostered by Haakon's emissaries, the Icelandic chiefs acknowledged the Norwegian king as overlord in 1262.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GUI_HAN/HAAKON_IV.html (546 words)

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		Haakon I (915-61) was brought up in England by King Athelstan.
		Haakon IV (1204-63) reigned from 1223, and brought Iceland and Greenland under the Norwegian crown.
		Haakon VII second son of Frederick VIII, king of Denmark.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/9286/H.html (2231 words)

	King Alexander III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Haakon landed on the 2nd October to salvage what he could from his stranded fleet, but he fled just as the Scots arrived to face the Norwegian host on the beach; the Battle of Largs.
		The Norwegian expedition was a disaster and Haakon sought the safety of Orkney where he died on the 16th December.
		Haakon's son now sent a diplomatic core to Alexander but now it was the Norwegian's turn to be turned away.
	www.templum.freeserve.co.uk /history/scottishkings/alexanderIII.htm (697 words)

	boys clothing: European royalty--Norway
		King Haakon VII returned to Norway after the war on June 7, 1945 and he was greeted by a whole nation for his his role in leading the resistace to the NAZIs during the war.
		King Haakon died at age 85 on September 21, 1957 and was succeeded by his son King Olav V of Norway, whose reign would become even more popular amongst his people than his father's had been.
		Crown Prince Haakon was the son of King Harald V and Queem Sonja.
	histclo.com /royal/nor/royal-nor.htm (1835 words)

	Historic Battles in Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Haakon rejected his offer and instead, hearing of Scots attacks on Skye, set sail with a fleet to do battle with Alexander.
		With his men hungry to pillage, Haakon sent part of the fleet to Bute and Loch Lomond, which was reached by dragging fifty galleys across the land at Tarbet.
		Haakon died in Orkney at the year’s end.
	www.geocities.com /historicbattles/largs (191 words)

	N3finish
		Evidence of King Haakon IV's expedition to the west of Scotland.
		Kyleakin derives its name from Haakon IV's visit on his way to the Battle of Largs in 1263.
		Haakon IV's death marks the 'last stand' of a Norwegian monarch to fight for control of the west.
	www.scran.ac.uk /sp3/html/N3finish.html (199 words)

	Kingdoms of Scandinavia - Norway
		Following a highly successful vote on 12th-13th November to establish whether the Norwegian people themselves want the prince, he arrives during a blizzard on 25th November, with his wife Maud (daughter of King Edward VIII of England), and his son Alexander.
		Carl changes his name to the more acceptable Haakon, and is welcomed as the first wholly Norwegian king for 600 years.
		Haakon's son, Crown Prince Olaf, marries Swedish princess Märtha on 21st March.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsEurope/ScandinaviaNorway.htm (315 words)

	HAAKON I - Online Information article about HAAKON I
		Norway Haakon gained the support of the landowners by promising to give up the rights of See also:
		Erik fled, and was killed a few years later in England.
		His sons allied themselves with the Danes, but were invariably defeated by Haakon, who was successful in everything he undertook except in his See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GUI_HAN/HAAKON_I.html (316 words)

	Castle Maol Walk round the village of Kyleakin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Last night, King Haakon IV of Norway, Mainland Scots and these Islands, arrived in Kyleakin with his fleet of 120 ships.
		An observer was heard to say that "their passage through the sea currents was like lightning of the sky" and the King's own ship was described as having "a fine dragon's head, all gilded and so to the neck".
		The fleet sails South to defend King Haakon's territory on the West Coast against the claims of King Alexander III of Scotland and put an end to the atrocities we have suffered during the Earl of Ross's forays to Skye.
	www.btinternet.com /~kyleakin/walk1.htm (288 words)

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		Fourteen years later, the King of Norway, who by this juncture was King Haakon Haakonsson, (from now on Haakon IV) assembled a fleet in Bergen and set sail for the Isles intent on showing who was boss.
		This would eventually end in the Battle of Largs (1263) and Haakon IV fled and died in the Orkney islands.
		Haakon's Saga tells how Alexander II died because he attacked the sacred territory of Columba, and if the saga is to be believed, it was against a background of atrocities such as the burning of churches and burning of woman and children that Haakon IV decided to sail.
	members.lycos.co.uk /cruithne1966/somerled.htm (1483 words)

	Clan Ruthven Two
		Kintyre and the Western Isles had been acknowledged as the property of the Norwegian crown in a treaty between Edgar, King of Scots and Magnus Barefoot, King of Norway, in 1098.
		By the mid-12th century the Norwegians appeared uninterested in their Scottish lands, and by 1156 Somerled, descended from Dalriada royalty, had become their lands' "sub-kin" and son-in-law of Olaf, King of Man. In 1263, Alexander III made an offer to Haakon IV to buy Kintyre and the Isles back.
		When the gale subsided on the 5 October Haakon withdrew and headed for the Isles.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /vicswanpage/page26.html (651 words)

	Vlar's Timeline of the World (Page 8)
		1210 - Otto IV is excommunicated from the church by Pope Innocent III.
		Philip II of France defeats Otto IV and the English.
		1263 - Haakon of Norway defeated by the Scots at Largs, cedes Hebrides.
	www.angelfire.com /vt/VlarDracul/timeline8.html (1181 words)

	Question for Scandinavians [Archive] - Stormfront White Nationalist Community
		His grandson, Haakon IV, was put on the throne by the Birkebeiner in 1217; under him and under Magnus VI (reigned 1263—80) reached its greatest flowering and enjoyed peace and prosperity.
		Clement V and Phillip IV, are hold responsible by modern History, for extinguishing the Crusading ideal, and thus are indirectly responsible for the loss of Byzantium to the Arabo-Turks in 1453.
		A praise to King Philip-Midas IV of France, Boniface stated that the charges brought against the Templars appeared to be true, calling to all the monarchs of Christendom to arrest and torture the Templars in their domains.
	www.stormfront.org /archive/t-78413 (18743 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (H-Hd) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Haakon IV was king of Norway from 1217 to 1263.
		He was born in 1204 and died in 1263.
		Haakon VII was King of Norway from 1905 to 1957.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /C6.HTM (2683 words)

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		Married in 1363 King Haakon VI of Norway (*1340,†1380).
		Issue of marriage: Elizabeth (1573,†1626; Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel); Anne (1574,†1619; Queen of Scotland and England); CHRISTIAN IV (1577,†1648); Ulrik (1578,†1624); Augusta (1580,†1639); Hedevig (1581,†1641; Electress of Saxony); Hans (*1583,†1611).
		Born in 1872 in Charlottenlund near Copenhagen as Prince Carl of Denmark.
	homepage.mac.com /crowns/n/avtxt.html (1640 words)

	The Man who would be King
		Children: Carl IV, Gustaf (1827-1852) Duke of Uppland, Oscar II, Eugenie (1830-1889), Nikolaus August (1831-1873) Duke of Dalarne.
		Born 3 of May 1825 at Stockholm's Palace and was given the names Carl Ludvig Eugène.
		Parents: King Haakon VII and Queen Maud (née Princess of Great Britain and Ireland).
	mbodesign.com /Viking/kingsofnorway.html (3862 words)

	List of Norwegian monarchs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Frederick IV Christian VI Frederick V : 1746 - 1766
		Carl IV of Norway : 1859 - 1872
		Haakon VII of Norway : 1905 - 1957
	www.freeglossary.com /King_of_Norway (418 words)

	Haakon III Sverresson -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It was said that the sickness which caused his sudden death was the result of poison put into his drink at the instigation of his Swedish stepmother, Margaret.
		More results on "Haakon III Sverresson" when you join.
		From Haakon I to Haakon V they were all descendants of Harald the Fairhair, the first king of Norway (see Norway).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9038672?tocId=9038672&query=haakon (720 words)

	BBC - History - Battle of Largs 1263 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In October 1263, a sizeable fleet of longships surveyed the Scandinavian dominions of King Haakon IV of Norway off the west coast of Scotland.
		In 1266, Haakon's successor, Magnus, signed the Treaty of Perth which surrendered sovereignty of the Western Isles off Scotland to the Scottish crown.
		Of their once great territories, only the Orkney and Shetland Isles remained under the control of the Scandinavians (and their hold there was soon under threat from a series of Scottish bishops).
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/timelines/britain/mid_battle_largs.shtml (278 words)

	Gathering of the Clans - Devoted To All Things Scottish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Others have suggested that MacMhathan means 'son of the heroes", and there is also of course a Lowland derivation, which is simply 'son of Matthew.' The MacMathans were settled in Lochalsh in Wester Ross from an early period.
		Kenneth MacMathan, constable of Eilean Donan is recorded in both the Norse account of the expedition of King Haakon IV against Scotland in 1263, and in the Chamberlain Rolls of that year, which culminated in the defeat of King Haakon at Largs...
		The Mathesons fought for Donald of the Isles at Harlaw in 1411 and afterwards Chief Alastair, leader of 2000 men, was arrested by James I at Inverness and beheaded in Edinburgh in 1427.
	www.tartans.com /print.php?sid=279 (536 words)

	venold.com :: Myfiles - Norways timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rapid growth of population, and rise of secular and clerical aristocracy.
		Reign of Haakon IV Haakonsson, who establishes a strong and united kingdom after a century of civil wars.
		King Haakon and the government move to London.
	www.venold.com /myfiles/norways_timeline.asp (543 words)

	Why is thistle the emblem of Scotland? - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		King Haakon IV had a fleet of Viking longboats off the coast of Largs.
		No one is certain whether Haakon the Elder intended simply a show of power by raiding villages or a full scale invasion of Scotland.
		The Battle of Largs drove the Vikings from Scotland, Haakon died returning to Norway, a treaty returned the Hebrides to Scottish rule, and a marriage contract wedded Scotland and Norway.
	www.killerplants.com /plants-that-changed-history/20030304.asp (721 words)

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