Harald III of Norway - Harald III of Norway Harald III (b.1015—d. Stamford bridge, England, September 25 1066), king of Norway from ca. 1040 together with the son of Olav Haroldsson (St. Olav), Magnus the Noble. After King Magnus's death in 1047, Harold became the sole king. In 1066 he was killed in a battle against King Harold Godwinson of England at Stamford bridge outside the city of York, England. King Harold's brother Tostig Godwinson was fighting on King Harald's side against Harold and some of their other brothers. Surnamed Haardraade (English: "Hardraada"), which might be translated "hard reign", he was the son of King Sigurd and half-brother of King Olaf the Saint. At the age of fifteen he was obliged to flee from Norway, having taken part in the Battle.
Harald IV of Norway - Harald IV of Norway Harald IV. (d. 1136), king of Norway, surnamed Gylle (probably froln Gylle Krist, i.e. servant of Christ), was born in Ireland about 1103. Aroung 1127, he went to Norway and declared he was a son of King Magnus III Barefoot, who had visited Ireland just before his death in 1103, and consequently a half-brother of the reigning king, Sigurd. He appears to have submitted successfully to the ordeal of fire, and the alleged relationship was acknowledged by Sigurd on condition that Harald did not claim any share in the government of the kingdom during his lifetime or that of his son Magnus. Living on friendly terms with the king, Harald kept this agreement until Sigurd’s death in 1130. Then war broke out.
Olav III of Norway - Olav III of Norway Olav III Haraldsson Kyrre (d.1093), nicknamed Olav the Quiet or Olav the Peaceful was the king of Norway from 1067 until his death in 1093. During his reign the nation maintained a rare extended period of peace. He also strengthened the Norwegian church. A son of King Harald III Hardraade, Olav took part in Viking invasion of England and might have fought in the Battle of Stamford Bridge. He shared the kingdom with his brother Magnus II until the latter's death in 1069, after which the country enjoyed a period of peace. A feature of his reign was the increasing importance of the towns including Bergen, founded by Olav in about 1070. based on extracts from various sources including 1911 EB Preceded by:.
Olaf IV of Norway - Olaf IV of Norway Olaf IV Haakonsson, (1370 - August 23, 1387), King of Norway and Denmark, son of Haakon VI of Norway and Margaret of Denmark. Haakon was son of King Magnus II of Sweden and Margaret daughter of King Waldemar Atterdag of Denmark. After Olaf, no Norwegian king was to be born on Norwegian soil for more than 550 years, until prince Harald was born in 1937. 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.
Olaf I of Norway - Olaf I of Norway Olav Tryggvason (969 - September 9 1000) was a great-grandson of Harald Hairfair He began his meteoric career in exile as his ancestors fled from the executions of the royal family by Eric Bloodaxe. It is even said that he was bought as a slave in Estonia. After a childhood spent in Novgorod under the protection of King Valdemar, Olaf fought for the emperor Otto III. under the Wendish king Burislav, whose daughter he had married. On her death he followed the example of his countrymen, and harried in France and the British Isles, until in a good day for the peace of those countries, he was converted to Christianity by a hermit in the Scilly Islands, and his marauding expeditions ceased since.
Magnus II of Norway - Magnus II of Norway Magnus II king of Norway from 1066 until 1069. This is a stub article, please help us fill it in. Is material from 1911 EB available? Preceded by: Harald III List of Norwegian monarchs Succeeded by: Olav Kyrre.
Knights of the Garter (after 1899) - The Most Noble Order of the Garter was founded by King Edward III of England in 1348 as "a society, fellowship and college of knights." It is now the oldest and highest order of chivalry in the British honours system. Before 1904 - Dates of installation/investiture, or, where that is unknown or not applicable, of appointment (app). After 1904 - date of appointment William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland (1900) Queen Alexandra, consort of King Edward VII, 1st woman appointed to the order since the end of the creation of "Ladies of the Garter" in 1488, although obviously Queens Mary I, Elizabeth I, Mary II, Anne, and Victoria had been ex officio members (1901) Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, Field Marshal, last Commander-in-Chief of the Army.
February 21 - - Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down a Libyan Airlines jet killing 108. 1975 - Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison. 1988 - On his own televangelism program being tapped in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Jimmy Swaggart confesses that he is guilty of an unspecified sin and will be will be temporarily leaving the pulpit. 1995 - Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon. 2000 - David Letterman returns to The Late Show with David Letterman over a month after having an emergency quintuple heart bypass surgery. Births 1728 - Peter III, Tsar or.
1066 - January 6 - Harold II is crowned king the day after Edward the Confessor dies. Tostig and Harald Hardraada of Norway invade England. September 25 - Harold II defeats Tostig and Harold Hardraada at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, killing both. September 28 - Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, invades England. October 14 - Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings - In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman invasion forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England. The Norman dynasty of English Kings followed. England is never successfully invaded again. The Viking port of Hedeby destroyed by marauding Slavs. A new church is begun at Monte Cassino. Halley's Comet is sighted in Britain. Births Deaths January 5.
1050s - 1049 1050 1051 1052 1053 1054 1055 1056 1057 1058 1059 1060 Events: 1050 Hedeby sacked by King Harald Hardraade of Norway during the course of a conflict with [King Eric Estridsson of Denmark]? King (Anund Jakob) of Sweden succeeded by (Emund den Gamle). See Swedish monarchs. 1053 Malcolm III of Scotland invades Scotland 1054 A powerful supernova is observed. It was so bright that could be seen in daylight. The supernova remnant left by the event is now known as the Crab Nebula. Pope Leo IX and Michael Cerularius, Partiarch of Constantinople, decree each other's excommunication, finalising the Great Schism between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. Malcolm Canmore begins his campaign for the throne of Scotland 1055 Seljuk Turks capture Baghdad Pope Victor II attains papacy 1057 Change of Scottish.
1015 - 1018 1019 1020 Events August: Canute the Great invades England. Berserkerss are banned in Norway. Olav Haraldsson becomes king of Norway. Sviatopolk succeeds Vladimir as prince of Kiev. Births Michael V, Byzantine Emperor Harald III, king of Norway Deaths Vladimir, prince of Kiev.
1042 - June 8 - Edward the Confessor becomes King of England. June 11 - Empress Zoe marries for the third time and elevates her husband to the throne as Constantine IX. George Maniaces, Byzantine general in Sicily, revolts against Constantine IX. Harald III of Norway, at this time leader of the Varangian Guard in the Byzantine Empire, returns to Norway, possibly because of his involvement in Maniaces' revolt. Magnus I of Norway becomes King of Denmark. The Normans in Italy move their capital to Melfi. Births Deaths August 24 - Deposed Emperor Michael V of the Byzantine Empire. Harthacanute, King of Denmark and England.
1103 - 1102 - 1103 - 1104 1105 1106 1107 1108 Events Amadeus III becomes Count of Savoy Bohemund I of Antioch is released from imprisonment among the Turks Births Emperor Toba of Japan William Adelin, son of Henry I of England Adeliza, second wife of Henry I of England Harald IV of Norway Alphonse I, Count of Toulouse Deaths Humbert II of Savoy Magnus III of Norway.
854 - Louis the German and Lothair meet at Attigny. Horik II succeeds Horik I as king of Denmark. Jayavarman III succeeds his father Jayavarman II as ruler of the Khmer Empire. Births Harald I, first king of Norway (approximate date) Deaths\n.
961 - 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths Events Byzantine Empire recaptures Crete from Muslim control Harald I of Norway squashed the rebelling forces of Eric Bloodaxe's sons but was killed in the Battle of Fitje. Harald II of Norway becomes ruler of Western part of Norway Births Deaths Harald I of Norway Abd-ar-rahman III, founder of the Umayyad caliphate of Cordoba\n.
Alliterative verse - "the old rules." The Norse poets tended to break up their verses into stanzas of from two to seven lines, rather than writing continuous verse after the Old English model. The loss of unstressed syllables made these verses seem denser and more emphatic. The Norse poets, unlike the Old English poets, tended to make each line a complete syntactic unit, avoiding enjambment where a thought begun on one line continues through the following lines; only seldom do they begin a new sentence in the second half-line. This example is from the Waking of Angantyr: Vaki, Angantýr! vekr þik Hervør, einga dóttir ykkur Tófu! Selðu ór haugi hvassan mæki þann's Svafrlama slógu dvergar. (Awaken, Angantýr! It is Hervør who awakens you, your only daughter by Tófa! Yield up from your grave the.
Canute the Great - (or Cnut) I, or Canute the Great (Danish Knud den Store) (994/995-1035) was king of England, Denmark and Norway and governor of Schleswig and Pomerania. He was the son of sea-king Sweyn Forkbeard, also reputed to be a member of the Jomsburg Vikings, a military outfit of mercenary warriors with a fortress based in today's Poland. There is still some dispute among historians over the existence of the Jomsvikings. Canute's mother was Gunhild (formerly Swiatoslawa, daughter of Mieszko I of Poland). While his father, Sweyn, remained pagan to the end of his life, Canute was reared by a mother whose own mother had been abducted from a religious house and married to the first Duke of Poland, Mieszko (or Miraslav), who later adopted Christianity for political reasons. Accompanying his father on.
September 25 - - Sergei Bondarchuk, actor (†1994) 1922 - Hammer DeRoburt, first president of Nauru (†1992) 1926 - Aldo Ray, actor (†1991) 1930 - Shel Silverstein, humorist, author (†1999) 1931 - Barbara Walters, broadcaster 1932 - Glenn Gould, pianist, composer (†1982) 1936 - Juliet Prowse, actress, dancer (†1996) 1938 - Jonathan Motzfeldt, first Prime Minister of Greenland 1944 - Michael Douglas, actor, producer 1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, model 1951 - Pedro Almodóvar, film director, writer, producer, actor 1952 - Christopher Reeve, actor 1952 - Mark Hamill, actor 1958 - Michael Madsen, actor 1961 - Heather Locklear, actress, model 1965 - Scottie Pippen, basketball star 1968 - Will Smith, actor, rapper 1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress 1970 - Dean Ween, musician ("Ween") 1971 - Hal Sparks, actor Deaths.
Regent - country; for instance, some university managers are called regents. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Examples of regents in various countries : 1.1 China 1.2 Egypt 1.3 France 1.4 Japan 1.5 Netherlands 1.6 Norway 1.7 Scotland 1.8 United Kingdom Examples of regents in various countries : It should be noted that those who held a regency briefly, for example during surgery, are not necessarily listed, particularly if they performed no official acts; this list is also not complete. China See Empress dowager and Grand Empress Dowager Egypt Hatshepsut of Egypt for Thutmose III of Egypt France Anne of Kiev, during the minority of her son Philip I Catherine de Medici: While her husband Henry II of France left the kingdom for the campaign of Metz. Later during the minority of her son.
Norman Conquest - watershed, the start of "conventional" English history. (For the importance of the concept in mass culture, note the spoof history book 1066 and All That). The Viking invasion of northern England by Harald III of Norway in September 1066 provided one factor aiding the ease of the Norman takeover - it left England unable to gather a large enough army to fend off the new enemy. Moreover, Norman cultural and political influence in England had built up over the years prior to 1066. Note that the conquest of Wales by the Normans took place piecemeal and finished only in 1282, during the reign of King Edward I. The same king, though he subdued Scotland, did not truly conquer it, as it re-asserted local sovereignty, remained an independent kingdom until 1707 and.
