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Encyclopedia > Kristina Sverresdotter

Kristina Sverresdotter was the daughter of King Sverre Sigurdsson (d. 1202) of Norway and his queen Margareta Eriksdotter. In 1208, she married Filippus Simonsson, king of the Bagler party. Sverre Sigurdsson (Old Norse Sverrir Sigurðsson) (c. ... // Events August 1 - Arthur of Brittany captured in Mirebeau, north of Poitiers Beginning of the Fourth Crusade. ... Margareta Eriksdotter (d. ... Events Philip of Swabia King of Germany and rival Holy Roman Emperor to Otto IV, assassinated June 21 in Bamberg by German Count Otto of Wittelsbach because Philip had refused to give him his daughter in marriage. ... Philip Simonsson the Bagler King was a son of queen Ingrid and Arne of Stodreim. ... The Bagler faction which was made up of aristocracy, clergy and merchants contested with the Birkebeiners, essentially a faction of peasants, led by the pretender King Sverre, for control in a Norwegian civil war during the late 12th century. ...


 

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