Knut Birgersson, Riksjarl of Sweden
Knut Birgersson (Old Norse: "
Knútr jarl Birgisson", died 1208)
was Riksjarl of Sweden.
He was the eldest surviving son of Riksjarl Birger Brosa and a member of the powerful House of Bjälbo.
Knut Birgersson was apparently elevated to the office of Riksjarl during the last years of the reign of King Sverker II of Sweden.
This was despite the fact that Sverker had named his infant son Johan Sverkersson as riksjarl following the death of Jarl Birger Brosa, in an attempt to confirm Johan as his royal successor and to diminish the power of highest nobility by effectively abolishing the position of riksjarl, so no adult noble could occupy it.
Johan Sverkersson was the nephew of Knut Birgersson, being born of his sister .
Sources are silent how and why Knut became jarl in Johan's lifetime, but either he got it as acompromise out of King Sverker, or Sverker actually needed an effective Riksjarl to his side.
According to one source, Jarl Knut was married to daughter of King Canute I of Sweden, named Sigrid Knutsdotter.
The same source states that Knut's son lord was born of Sigrid.
Jarl Knut was killed in 1208 at the Battle of Lena, where King Sverker lost his throne to Canute's surviving son, the new king Eric X of Sweden.
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Birger Brosa
Birger Brosa (Old Norse: "Birgir Brósa" where "Brósa" means "smiling"), jarl of Sweden 1174–1202, d. 9 January 1202 on Visingsö, was a son of Bengt Snivil and a member of the powerful House of Bjälbo.
In the medieval texts he is either called the "jarl of the Swedes" or the "jarl of the Swedes and the Geats".
Birger was appointed to the position of jarl during the reign of Knut Eriksson.
He maintained the position during Knut's successor Sverker II until his death in 1202.
Before 1170, Birger was married to Brigida Haraldsdotter, the daughter of the Norwegian king Harald Gille.
She had formerly been married to the Danish pretender Magnus Henriksson, who had briefly ruled in Uppsala 1160–1161.
Birger appears to have maintained peace in Sweden during the civil wars that ravaged Denmark and Norway.
Many of the pretenders in these kingdoms sought refuge with Birger.
Among them were the Birkebeiner chieftains Eystein Meyla and Sverre Sigurdsson who were kinsmen of Brigida Haraldsdotter.
Birger's son Philippus was in the service of King Sverre and died as his Earl in 1200.
Birger owned estates in Östergötland, Närke, Värmland and Södermanland.
He was a great donor to the convent of Riseberga in Närke, where Birgitta spent her last years after Birger's death.
As soon as he was dead, a civil war broke out.
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