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  Harald V of Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The son of the then Crown Prince Olav and of Princess Märtha of Sweden, Harald was born at the Crown Prince Residence at, Asker, near Oslo.
Harald was the first Norwegian-born prince since the birth of Olav IV in 1370.
On 1 December 2003 King Harald was announced to be suffering from cancer of the bladder.
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 Harald IV of Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harald Gylle (1103–1136), king of Norway, was born in Ireland.
Harald now ruled the country until 1136, when he was murdered by Sigurd Slembedjakn, another bastard son of Magnus Barefoot.
Harald was married to Ingrid Ragnvaldsdottir, and had the son Inge with her.
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 NORWAY - LoveToKnow Article on NORWAY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The snow-line in Norway is estimated at 3080 ft. in Seiland, 5150 ft. on Dovre Fjeld, and from 4100 to 4900 ft. in Jotunheim.
Norway is naturally divided into three parts, and each of these remained more or less separate for centuries, even having separate laws until the second half of the I3th century.
Harald Gille was slain in 1,36 by another pretender, and anarchy ruled during the reign of his sons Eystein, Inge and Sigurd Mund.
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 History of Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Norway was relegated to a virtual provincial status from 1356 until 1814; this period was called "the 400-year-night" by Ibsen during the national romantic period as Norwegian national awareness was rediscovered in the 19th century.
Norway's power was weakened during this period by the loss of a large part of the population during the Black Death pandemic of 1349-1351.
In 1814 Denmark-Norway was defeated in the Napoleonic wars and the king was forced to cede Norway to the king of Sweden in the Treaty of Kiel (January 14).
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 HARALD - LoveToKnow Article on HARALD
HARALD I. (850933), surnamed Haarfager (of the beaut~1ful hair), first king over Norway, succeeded on the death ot his father Halfdan the Black in A.D. 860 to the sovereignty of several small and somewhat scattered kingdoms, which had come into his fathers hands through conquest.and inheritance and lay chiefly in.
Their numbers were increased by malcontents from Norway, who resented Haralds claim of rights of taxation over lands,which the possessors appear to have previously held in absolute ownership.
HARALD II., surnamed Graafeld, a grandson of Harald I., became, with his brothers, ruler of the western part of Norway in 96!; he was murdered in Denmark in 969.
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 harald
Harald died on a bed of sickness in Rogaland (A.D. 933), and was buried under a mound 13.5 ft. high at Haugar in Karmsund.
Olaf IV Håkonsson was the last Norwegian king from 1380-1387 after which Norway joined the Kalmar Union in 1388, with Queen Margrethe I as ruler of Sweden, as well as Norway and Denmark.
Norway was under Denmark for 400 years, by choice, and under Sweden from 1814 to 1905 as the result of Denmark-Norway’s defeat in the Napoleonic Wars.
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 Norway
Norway is first and foremost a maritime nation, and most of its population lives along the coast or on the hundreds of coastal islands, where the weather is moderated by the Gulf Stream.
Norway is split in three parts by Olof Skötkonung, King of Svealand, his step-father Svend Forkbeard, King of Denmark, and the exiled Jarl Eirik.
Margarethe is appointed Regent and unites Norway, Sweden, and Denmark in the Union of Kalmar.
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 Harald V of Norway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Harald V (born February 21, 1937) became King of Norway in 1991.
The son of Olav V and of Princess Märtha of Sweden, Harald was born at Skaugum, near Oslo.
He is the first King of Norway to have been born in Norway since King Olav IV was born there in 1370, and he is also a direct descendant of Joséphine de Beauharnais, the first wife of Napoleon.
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 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg996 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Harald IV Gille of Norway MAGNUSSON King of Norway died 14 Dec 1136.
Sigurd I the Crusader of Norway MAGNUSON was born 1089 and died 26 Mar 1130.
Sverre of Norway SIGURDSSON King of Norway was born 1152 and died 9 Mar 1202.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Harald Berg (born November 9, 1941 in Bodø) was a Norwegian playmaker and midfilder, nickname "Dutte".
Harald III Haardraade (1015 — September 25 1066) was the king of Norway from around 1040 together with the son of Olav Haroldsson (St. Olav), Magnus the Noble.
Harald II (-976), surnamed Gråfell (Norwegian) / Graafeld (Danish) / "Greyhide" (English), was the son of Eric Bloodaxe and a grandson of Harald Finehair.
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 Harald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harald or Harold is the name of several kings:
Harald III of Norway (born 1015– died Stamford bridge, England, September 25, 1066), also known as Harald Hårdråde.
Harald V of Norway, born February 21, 1937
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 The Norwegian Royal Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Norway is a constitutional monarchy, which means that the constitution decrees that the country shall be ruled by a monarch.
King Harald is the son of King Olav V (1903-1991) and Crown Princess Märtha (1901-1954).
King Harald V of Norway is the first born Norwegian king since King Olav IV was born her in 1370.
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 Haakon VII of Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
King Haakon VII of Norway, Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel (August 3, 1872–September 21, 1957) was the first King of Norway after the dissolution of the personal union with Sweden in 1905.
Their son, Prince Alexander, the future Crown Prince Olav and finally king Olav V of Norway, was born on July 2, 1903.
After a referendum confirmed the newly-independent Norway as a monarchy, Prince Carl became its king on November 18, 1905, succeeding his great-uncle, the deposed Oscar II of Norway on that throne and was crowned as Haakon VII in Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim on June 22, 1906.
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 History of NORWAY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Harald's son Sweyn extends the Danish kingdom to England in 1013, and his grandson Canute rules an empire which includes Denmark, England and even for a while (1030-1035) the kingdom of Norway.
In 1363, at the age of ten, she is married to Haakon VI, the 23-year-old king of Norway.
And peasants in Norway are free, whereas their counterparts in Denmark are reduced during the 18th century to conditions of serfdom.
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 Norway Travel
Norway is a long, narrow country on the northwestern edge of the European continent.
Norway is mostly a high, mountainous plateau covered by bare rock, and it has a relatively small amount of farmland.
Norway's merchant fleet, one of the largest in the world, is also an important source of income for the country.
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 HARALD V OF NORWAY FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The son of the then Crown Prince Olav and of Princess Märtha of Sweden, Harald was born at the Crown Prince Residence at Skaugum, Asker, near Oslo.
After the royal family fled the Nazi invasion of 1940, Harald and his mother and sisters lived in Washington,_DC during World_War_II (his father Olav and grandfather King Haakon residing in London with the exiled government).
King Harald is the head of the Church_of_Norway.
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 Harald IV --  Encyclopædia Britannica
byname Harald Gille, or Gilchrist king of Norway (1130–36), a ruthless sovereign whose feud with his fellow king Magnus IV the Blind over the Norwegian throne marked the beginning of a period of civil wars (1130–1240) during which the right to rule was constantly in dispute.
king of Norway (1136–61), who maintained his claim to the throne against the illegitimate sons of his father, the Norwegian king Harald IV Gille (reigned 1130–36), and represented the interests of the higher nobles and clergy in the second part of the Norwegian civil wars.
Pope Gregory VII's 11th-century removal of Henry IV from the throne of Germany, one of the episodes of the Investiture Controversy.
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 Outline of Norway's history
King Harald III participates in and is killed during the Norman invasion of England, at Stamford Bridge.
The Kalmar Union is formed as a result of the dynastic ties between Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, the geographical position of the Scandinavian states, and the growing influence of Germans in the Baltic.
Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairss Thorvald Stoltenberg is appointed peace negotiator to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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 Norway
Claimed to be son of Magnus III Barefoot; appeared in Norway (1128); at death of Sigurd I (1130), chosen by one faction as king opposed to Magnus IV; civil war (1134-35); captured and blinded Magnus (1135); slain by pretender Sigurd Slembi.
She was born in Søborg, Denmark, the youngest issue of King Waldemar IV Atterdag, and as a child she was married (1363) to King Håkon VI of Norway.
Daughter of King Erik II of Norway and granddaughter of Alexander III of Scotland and Margaret; affianced to Prince Edward, son of Edward I of England (1287); died in Orkneys en route to England.
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 CHAPTER IV. HARALD GREYFELL AND BROTHERS. - Early Kings of Norway - Thomas Carlyle at HistoricalBookArchive.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Eric's sons, four or five of them, with a Harald at the top, now at once got Norway in hand, all of it but Trondhjem, as king and under-kings; and made a severe time of it for those who had been, or seemed to be, their enemies.
She had come back to Norway with her sons; and naturally passed for the secret adviser and Maternal President in whatever of violence went on; always reckoned a fell, vehement, relentless personage where her own interests were concerned.
Harald, the head-king in this Eric fraternity, does not seem to have been a bad man,--the contrary indeed; but his position was untowardly, full of difficulty and contradictions.
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 Articles - Olav V of Norway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Louise and Christian both were descendants of Haakon V of Norway and of most Danish kings of Norway, such as Christian I of Norway, Frederick I of Norway, and Frederick III of Norway, up to Frederick V of Denmark.
As biological son of Maud, Olav V is the great-great-grandnephew of the 1814 King Christian Frederick of Norway.
The only significant Norwegian dynasty in that case not ancestors of Olav would be that of Haakon's mother Lovisa of Sweden, daughter of Charles IV of Norway and descendant of Bernadotte kings of Norway, i.e Charles III John of Norway and Oscar I of Norway.
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 Olaf IV of Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Olaf IV Haakonsson, (1370 - August 23, 1387), King of Norway and Denmark, son of Haakon VI of Norway and Margaret of Denmark.
Olaf inherited the Danish throne through his mother and reigned as king of Denmark (1376-1387) as Oluf III and the Norwegian throne from his father and reigned in Norway (1380-1387) as Olav IV.
Following his premature death in 1387, his mother Margaret was able to unite the three Scandinavian kingdoms in personal union under one crown, by the Kalmar Union in 1389.
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 Ancestors and Family of Magnus IV the Blind of Norway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
MAGNUS THE BLIND, Norwegian MAGNUS DEN BLINDE, joint ruler of Norway (1130-35), with Harald IV, whose abortive attempt (1137-39) to wrest sovereignty from Inge I Haroldsson and Sigurd II, sons of Harald IV, ended the first epoch in the period of Norwegian civil wars (1130-1240).
The son of the Norwegian king Sigurd I Magnusson, Magnus succeeded to the throne jointly with Harald IV in 1130.
He was liberated in 1137 by Sigurd Slembi, who had slain Harald the year before but could not gain support for his own claim to the throne and hoped, instead, to install Magnus as king.
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 Jan Waage's Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I've understood that the Rune-letters were developed because of this trade on the Euxinus (Black Sea) by the Goths from Greek letters.
It is assumed that Svitjod covered the settlements of the Goths in the south of Sweden and Norway, parts of Denmark and on the east side of the Baltic Sea in Novgorod, Russia and Kiew, Ukraina.
Harald III Hardraade was actively engaged in north European and Scandinavian activities.
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 Harald IV of Norway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Current city Street: Harald IV of Norway <
About 1127 he went to Norway and declared he was a son of King III of Norway">Magnus III Barefoot[?], who had visited Ireland just before his death in 1103, and consequently a half-brother of the reigning king, Sigurd[?].
Four of Harald’s sons, III of Norway">Sigurd[?], Ingi[?], Eystein[?] and Magnus[?], were subsequently kings of Norway.
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 Magnus IV --  Encyclopædia Britannica
byname Magnus The Blind, Norwegian Magnus Den Blinde joint ruler of Norway (1130–35), with Harald IV, whose abortive attempt (1137–39) to wrest sovereignty from Inge I Haroldsson and Sigurd II, sons of Harald IV, ended the first epoch in the period of Norwegian civil wars (1130–1240).
By papal decree in 1941, he was declared the patron saint of all who cultivate the natural sciences.
He believed that the truths of faith and science could coexist, and he demonstrated this by separating the path to knowledge by revelation and faith from the way of philosophy and science.
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 Timeline Norway
c900-1000 Harald Bluetooth, or Harald Blatand, 10th-century king of Denmark, attributed to himself the unification of Denmark and the Christianization of the Danes.
The King of Norway was killed and Harold’s forces destroyed the Vikings who returned to Norway in 24 of their 300 ships.
Yeltsin signed an accord with King Harold V of Norway for the dismantling and disposal of 90 nuclear submarines decaying in the Barents Sea.
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 In Memory of King Oscar II of Norway
was, moreover, the symbol of the King of Norway.
Carl XIII was, however, not crowned King of Norway due to old age.
His Majesty’s statement on his not accepting the resignation, put in writing, was cited with the removal of the word “now.” As a consequence of Oscar II no longer being Norwegian King the union was dissolved and the Constitution amended as an outcome of this dissolution.
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 Olav_V_of_Norway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
On March 21, 1929, he married Princess Märtha Louise of Sweden with whom he had one son, Harald, and two daughters, Ragnhild and Astrid.
The night after he died (at the Royal Lodge, Kongsseteren) and for several days up until the state funeral, Norway saw a great demonstration of mourning as Norwegians lit hundreds of thousands of candles in the courtyard outside the Royal Castle in Oslo, with letters and cards placed amongst them.
Storsveen claims that there does not exist adequate sourcing for Bomann-Larsen's "hypothesis" that Olav wasn't the biological son of Haakon and is further extremely critical of the way Bomann-Larsen uses photographic resemblance as "proof".
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