Ruler · 1164 – 1210

Sverker the Younger

Lived 1164 – 1210; explorer. Monarch of Sweden (Sweden), 1195 – 1208.

Wikidata's English label: Sverker II of Sweden.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1164 – 1210; 46 years
In office: 13 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Sweden
Left it: deposed or killed; Kokkonen & Sundell

Monarch of Sweden

Sweden · the 19th of 62 dated reigns · 970 – 1973

15 before

Magnus Henriksson1160 – 1161

Karl Sverkersson1161 – 1167

Knut Eriksson1173 – 1195

Sverker the Younger1195 – 1208

Erik Knutsson1208 – 1216

Johan Sverkersson1216 – 1222

Erik Eriksson1222 – 1229

40 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1195 – 1208 · 13 years · came to it aged 31

Left it: deposed or killedcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell: by others

He may be identified with a Jon Jarl who, according to later tradition, fought the Russians and Ingrians for nine years, but was killed at Askanäs by Lake Mälaren by Karelian pirates, immediately after his return.

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