Please answer the following question: Facts: - issue: gyda , queen of denmark - type: monarch - succession: king of sweden - caption: coin minted for king anund jacob - reign: 1022 & nbsp ; -- 1050 ad - successor: emund the old - spouse: gunnhildr sveinsdottir - predecessor: olof skotkonung - mother: estrid of the obotrites - death date: 1050 1008 - house: house of munso - father: olof skotkonung - birth date: c. 25 july 1008 - name: anund jacob - image: anwynd james of sweden coin c 1040.jpg Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of anund jacob .
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anund jacob or james , swedish : '' anund jakob '' was king of sweden from 1022 until around 1050 .he is believed to have been born on july 25 , in either 1008 or 1010 as '' jakob '' .when the swedish thing was to elect him the co-ruler of sweden , the people objected to his non-scandinavian name .they then gave him the pronomen '' anund '' .the line of kings appended to the '' westrogothic law '' says that he was called '' kolbranna '' -lrb- '' coal-burner '' -rrb- as he had the habit of burning down the houses of his opponents .his political agenda included maintaining the balance of power in scandinavia , which is why he supported the norwegian kings olaf ii and magnus i against denmark 's king cnut the great during the 1020s and 1030s .at the battle of the helgea , anund and olaf were either victorious over or defeated by cnut .when magnus i became king of norway and denmark in 1042 , anund jakob supported him until the death of magnus in 1047 .anund jakob 's reign has traditionally been dated from 1022 to approximately 1050 , but there is a great uncertainty over the year he died .he was probably alive 1049 , and his brother and successor emund is certain to have ruled sweden in the summer of 1060 .two skalds are known to have served anund jacob : sighvatr orarson and Ottarr svarti .the '' hervarar saga '' has very little to tell about anund : according to gudmund joran adlerbeth of the swedish academy , not long after 1024 the king -lrb- as '' jakun '' -rrb- , blind and dressed in a gold suit , led a swedish expedition eastward to the other side of the baltic sea and provided military reinforcements to his brother-in-law yaroslav i the wise in a battle against mstislav of chernigov .