King Hákon Hákonarson

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**King Hákon Hákonarson** is the initial monarch of the Kingdom of Norway. He starts as the lord of Niðarós.

## Historical Background

Hákon was born in March or April 1204 in Folkenborg. Acknowledged as the illegitimate posthumous son of Haakon III and the grandson of Sverre Sigurdsson, Haakon was reared at the court of Inge II and, on Inge’s death in 1217, was proclaimed king by the Birchlegs, the adherents of Sverre. Doubts of his paternity, especially by the ecclesiastical leaders, were allayed after his mother passed through an ordeal of hot irons (1218). The early years of his reign were disturbed by uprisings in the eastern region of the country by workers and wealthier freeholders, who opposed domination by landed aristocrats.

After the insurrections had been crushed, Haakon’s elder kinsman Earl Skuli Baardsson, who had chiefly conducted the government, attempted to gain sovereignty for himself. When Haakon’s efforts to conciliate him failed, Skuli revolted openly and proclaimed himself king but was quickly defeated and killed by Haakon’s forces (1240). In 1247 the king was crowned, in a ceremony then rare in Norway, by the pope’s legate.

Haakon improved the efficiency of the royal administration and also gained passage of laws prohibiting blood feuds and regulating church–state relations as well as the succession to the throne. His treaty with Henry III of England in 1217 was the earliest commercial treaty known in either nation. He also concluded a commercial treaty with the important north German trading city of Lübeck (1250) and signed a Russo-Norwegian treaty defining the northern boundary between the two nations. By acquiring sovereignty over Iceland and Greenland in 1261–62, he attained the greatest extension of the Norwegian Empire. The two colonies agreed to accept Norwegian rule and taxation in return for a trade guarantee and maintenance of civil order. In 1263 Haakon sailed to the Scottish Isles to protect the Norwegian possessions of the Isle of Man and the Hebrides against a threatened attack by Alexander III of Scotland. After a few skirmishes, Haakon retired to the Orkney Islands, where he died on 16 December 1263, at the age of 59, he was succeeded by his elder son, Magnús.

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* Hákon is the only monarch who is also treason his vassals if they hostile to him.
* He is the member of the House of Sverre.
* In the Medieval monarchs, he is the only one who give away a fief with most supporters, even if his starting fief of Niðarós is taken back factions (even the garrison is around 500+ troops), or rival faction took it but he will relocated to Bjǫrgyn as his "fief".
	+ If his starting fief of Niðarós is taken by other factions or the Kingdom of Norge (which immediately an civil war broke out when his rival took control of Niðarós), sometimes he gives himself an mere castle or an village.
* If Hákon were able to made a captured fief as his capital or court, and the feast will declared, he will still in his new captured fief capital because of the very low garrison. He will still remain the town until high garrison.
	+ While, Hákon still be able to build a army and recruit of the enemy troops.

 Duke Magnús Hákonarson •
Duke Knutr Hákonarson •
Count Lendmann Gautr Jonsson
Count Ogmundr Kraekidanz •
Count Bryniolfr Jonsson •
Count Loþinn Gunnason
Count Gunnarr Konungfraendi •
Count Jon Drottning •
Count Gizurr Þorvaldsson
Baron Munan Byskupsson •
Baron Sigurdr Byskupsson •
Baron Bardr I Hesbae
Baron Arnbiorn Poki •
Baron Aslakr Guss •
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