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He was crowned as Erik XIV, but was not necessarily the 14th king of Sweden named Erik. He and his brother Charles adopted regnal numbers according to Johannes Magnus's partly fictitious history of Sweden. There had, however, been at least six earlier Swedish kings with the name of Erik, as well as pretenders about whom very little is known. [5]
Saint Erik (died 18 May 1160), also called Eric IX [a] or Erik Jedvardsson [b] was King of Sweden from c. 1156 until his death in 1160. The Roman Martyrology of the Catholic Church names him as a saint memorialized on 18 May. [2] He was the founder of the House of Erik, which ruled Sweden with interruptions from c. 1156 to 1250.
Eric the Victorious, Swedish king c. 945 – c. 995; Eric and Eric, fought each other for the throne around 1066; Saint Erik, king before 1160 (speculative numeral: Eric IX) Erik Knutsson, king between 1208 and 1216 (speculative numeral: Eric X) Erik Eriksson, king between 1222 and 1234 (speculative numeral: Eric XI) Erik Magnusson, king ...
The House of Erik (Swedish: Erikska ätten) was a medieval Swedish royal dynasty with several pretenders to the throne between 1150 and 1220, rivaling for kingship of Sweden with the House of Sverker. The first king from the House of Erik was Erik Jedvardsson, later known as Saint Erik. Almost all the subsequent kings of Sweden have been ...
Eric IX of Sweden, Swedish king between 1150 and 1160, called Saint Eric, Eric the Lawgiver, Eric the Saint, or Eric the Holy; Eric X of Sweden, the King of Sweden between 1208 and 1216; Eric XI of Sweden, the son of king Erik X of Sweden and Rikissa of Denmark; Eric XII of Sweden, rival King of Sweden and to his father Magnus IV from 1356 to ...
Unknown name: Eric and Eric r. 1066–1067: Anund Gårdske r. ... Ingeborg Eriksdotter of Sweden (1212–1254) Eric XI (1216–1250) r. 1222–1229, 1234–1250:
Eric appears to have been a popular king; according to Rimbert's writings, some of the Anti-Christian Swedes suggested that Eric be worshipped as a god alongside the rest of the Nordic pantheon instead of the new Christian god the missionaries were attempting to introduce in Sweden. [1] As the Vita Ansgari puts it:
14th century 24 March Daughter of Saint Birgitta (Bridget of Sweden) David of Munktorp: 11th century Västmanland apostle Elisabeth Hesselblad: 20th century Eric IX of Sweden: 12th century 18 May Eskil: 11th century 12 June Patron saint of Södermanland and Strängnäs. Helena of Skövde: 12th century 5 March Bishop Henry: 12th century 19 January