Ancestral Trails 2016 » Magnus II HARALDSSON (1048-1069)

Données personnelles Magnus II HARALDSSON 

• Il est né en l'an 1048 dans Norway.
• (Titles) en l'an 1066 dans King Magnus II of Norway.Source 1
• Il est décédé le 28 avril 1069 dans Nidaros, Trondheim, Norway, il avait 21 ans.
• Un enfant de Harald Hardrada SIGURDSSON et Thora Torbergsdatter of NORWAY

Famille de Magnus II HARALDSSON

Enfant(s):

1. Haakon MAGNUSSON  1069-????

Notes par Magnus II HARALDSSON

Magnus Haraldsson (Old Norse: Magnús Haraldsson; c. 1048 - 28 April 1069) was King of Norway from 1066 to 1069, jointly with his brother Olaf Kyrre from 1067. He was not included in official Norwegian regnal lists until modern times, but has since been counted as Magnus II.

A son of King Harald Hardrada, Magnus was in 1058 appointed nominal leader of an expedition into the Irish Sea while still only a child. He appears to have assisted Welsh ruler Gruffydd ap Llywelyn and Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia in their struggles against the English, although his primary objective may have been to assert control over Orkney. He later accompanied his father in Harald's campaign against Denmark in 1062, and was appointed regent and made king before Harald's fatal invasion of England in 1066. Magnus briefly ruled Norway alone thereafter, until his younger brother Olaf returned from England in 1067.

Magnus co-ruled with Olaf following his brother's return to Norway. Having reigned for less than three years, Magnus became ill and died in Nidaros (Trondheim) on 28 April 1069. The sagas posit that Magnus died of ringworm, but modern scholars have proposed that he instead may have died of ergotism (poisoning by the Claviceps purpurea fungus). Snorri Sturluson writes briefly in the Saga of Harald Hardrade that Magnus was "an amiable king and bewailed by the people."

Magnus's kingship has been downplayed in later history partly due to his short tenure, and because most of it was together with his brother. The subsequently long reign of Olaf also contributed to overshadow Magnus's reign, combined with the fact that the later Norwegian royal dynasties only descended (or claimed descent) from Olaf.

Magnus had a son, Haakon Toresfostre, who was probably born the same year that Magnus died. Haakon went on to claim what he considered his part of the kingdom (after his father) in 1093 when his uncle Olaf Kyrre died, and shared the kingdom with his cousin Magnus Barefoot (son of Olaf Kyrre). Similar to the reign of his father, Haakon's reign also ended abruptly after a short time as he died young in 1095, without issue.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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