caption father predecessor successor succession death_date house mother birth_date spouse issue image article_title name reign
canute i eric ix `` the saint '' of sweden charles vii sverker ii king of sweden 1195/96 house of eric christina bjornsdatter before 1150 cecilia johansdotter of sweden '' -lrb- traditionally -rrb- '' jon , nn knutsdotter knutsson knut knutsson joar knutsson eric x daughter image : canute i of sweden c 1290.jpg canute i of sweden
 canute i 1173 -- 1195
canute i of sweden

canute i -lrb- swedish : knut eriksson , old norse : `` knútr eiríksson '' ; born before 1150 -- died 1195/96 -rrb- was king over all of sweden from 1173 to 1195 -lrb- rival king since 1167 -rrb- .
he was a son of king eric the saint and queen christina , who was a granddaughter of the swedish king inge the elder .
after killing charles sverkerson in 1167 , canute , who had just returned home after ten years in exile , started fighting for power against sverker the elder 's sons kol and boleslaw sverkerson .
only in 1173 could he call himself king of the whole country .
canute 's able jarl -lrb- earl -rrb- from 1174 was birger brosa -lrb- died in 1202 -rrb- canute built a castle on the island of stockholm in 1187 , one of many such fortifications made necessary by heathen incursions from the baltic lands .
`` skáldatal '' names two of knut eriksson 's skalds : hallbjörn hali and Þorsteinn Þorbjarnarson .
