death_date birth_date reign father house death_place spouse image name caption predecessor succession issue type successor mother religion burial_place article_title
22 september 1093 -lrb- aged about 43 -rrb- c. 1050 1067 -- 22 september 1093 harald iii of norway house of hardrada haukbø tanum , sweden -rrb- , rånrike , norway -lrb- now håkeby , ingerid of denmark olav kyrre mynt 1.jpg olaf kyrre coin attributed to olaf . magnus ii king of norway magnus iii of norway monarch magnus iii , haakon magnusson tora torbergsdatter roman catholicism nidaros cathedral olaf iii of norway

olaf iii of norway

`` olaf iii redirects here .
it can also refer to olaf guthfrithson of dublin and to olof skötkonung of sweden .
also , sometimes olaf ii of denmark is numbered as iii when counting a previous anti-king .
for other people of the same name , see olaf haraldsson . ''
olaf haraldsson -lrb- old norse : '' Óláfr haraldsson '' , norwegian : `` olav haraldsson '' ; c. 1050 -- 22 september 1093 -rrb- , known as olaf kyrre -lrb- old norse : `` kyrri '' , english : `` the peaceful '' -rrb- , was king of norway -lrb- as olaf iii -rrb- from 1067 until his death in 1093 .
he was present at the battle of stamford bridge in england in 1066 where his father , king harald hardrada , saw defeat and was killed in action , an event that directly preceded his kingship .
during his rule , olaf made peace with regards to earlier royal conflicts with the church , strengthened the power of the monarchy , and is said to have founded the city of bergen in 1070 .
