death_date birth_date reign father house death_place coronation spouse image name caption predecessor succession birth_place issue type successor mother religion article_title
9 may 1280 1 may 1238 16 december 1263 -- 9 may 1280 haakon iv of norway house of sverre bergen , norway 14 september 1261 , bergen ingeborg of denmark magnus haakonsson -lrb- stavanger cathedral -rrb- . jpg magnus the law-mender contemporary , dated c. 1270s -- 80s . bust of magnus vi from the stavanger cathedral haakon iv king of norway tønsberg , norway eric ii of norway haakon v of norway monarch eric ii margrete skulesdatter roman catholicism magnus vi of norway

magnus vi of norway

magnus haakonsson -lrb- old norse : `` magnús hákonarson '' , norwegian : `` magnus håkonsson '' ; 1 may 1238 -- 9 may 1280 -rrb- was king of norway -lrb- as magnus vi -rrb- from 1263 to 1280 -lrb- junior king from 1257 -rrb- .
one of his greatest achievements was his modernisation and nationalisation of the norwegian law-code , after which he is known as magnus the law-mender -lrb- old norse : `` magnús lagabœtir '' , norwegian : `` magnus lagabøte '' -rrb- .
he was the first norwegian monarch known to personally have used an ordinal number , although originally counting himself as `` iv '' .
