Read the bio below and try to give details on haakon iv of norway 's: - burial place - regent - mother - predecessor - house - birth date - issue - caption - succession - reign - spouse - death date - father - name - death place - birth place - coronation - successor - image size - image - religion Bio: haakon haakonsson -lrb- c. march/april 1204 -- 16 december 1263 -rrb- -lrb- old norse : '' hakon hakonarson '' ; norwegian : '' hakon hakonsson '' -rrb- , sometimes called haakon the old in contrast to his son with the same name , and known in modern regnal lists as haakon iv , was the king of norway from 1217 to 1263 . his reign lasted for 46 years , longer than any norwegian king since harald i. haakon was born into the troubled civil war era in norway , but his reign eventually managed to put an end to the internal conflicts . at the start of his reign , during his minority , his later rival earl skule bardsson served as regent . as a king of the birkebeiner faction , haakon defeated the uprising of the final bagler royal pretender , sigurd ribbung , in 1227 . he put a definitive end to the civil war era when he had skule bardsson killed in 1240 , a year after he had himself proclaimed king in opposition to haakon . haakon thereafter formally appointed his own son as his co-regent . under haakon 's rule , medieval norway is considered to have reached its zenith or golden age . his reputation and formidable naval fleet allowed him to maintain friendships with both the pope and the holy roman emperor , despite their conflict . he was at different points offered the imperial crown by the pope , the irish high kingship by a delegation of irish kings , and the command of the french crusader fleet by the french king . he amplified the influence of european culture in norway by importing and translating contemporary european literature into old norse , and by constructing monumental european-style stone buildings . in conjunction with this he employed an active and aggressive foreign policy , and at the end of his rule added iceland and the norse greenland community to his kingdom , leaving norway at its territorial height . although he for the moment managed to secure norwegian control of the islands off the northern and western shores of great britain , he fell ill and died when wintering in orkney following...
- burial place is st , old cathedral of bergen -lrb- destroyed in 1531 -rrb- magnus cathedral , kirkwall -lrb- until 1264 -rrb-- regent is haakon vi -lrb- 1257 -- 63 -rrb- the young -lrb- 1240 -- 57 -rrb- magnus- mother is inga of varteig- predecessor is inge ii- house is house of sverre -lrb- fairhair dynasty -rrb-- birth date is c. march/april 1204- issue is haakon vi of norway the young christina , infanta of castile magnus- caption is haakon with reverse -rrb- . the seal itself was given to 's haakon as a gift from henry iii of england in seal 1236 . , from a 1247/48 letter -lrb-- succession is king of norway- reign is june 1217 -- 16 december 1263- spouse is margrete skulesdotter- death date is 16 december 1263- father is haakon iii of norway- name is haakon iv- death place is kirkwall , orkney- birth place is folkenborg , norway- coronation is 29 july 1247 -lrb- bergen -rrb-- successor is magnus vi- image size is 180px- image is kong haakon haakonsson pi iii 1.jpg- religion is roman catholicism