Erling "Stenvägg" Magnusson ~1184–1207
Kung av Bagler i Norge 1204
Kön: Man Levnadsålder: ≈23
Levnadsbana
| Född | omkring 1184 Norge1 |
| Kung av bagler i norge 1204 | |
| Fadern Magnus V Erlingsson dör (≈0) | 1184-06-15 Slaget vid Fimreite, Sognefjorden, Norge2 |
| Sonen Sigurd Erlingsson Ribbung föds (≈18) | 1202 Norge3 |
| Död (≈23) | 1207 Tönsberg, Norge4 |
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ERLING "Steinvegg/Stonewall" Magnusson, Baglerkonge
Son of Magnus V, King of Norway and (NN Mistress 2)
King of the Bagler in Norway 1204
Erling Månsson, Stone wall called; Claimed to be King Magnus Erlingsson's son; Did for that claim on the Norwegian Crown; Fled in 1190, when King Sverre struck after him, to Westergöthland, where he remained by the Swedish King Knut Ericsson, at the request of the Norwegian King, arrested and imprisoned in a high tower on Wisingsö, from which he was named Stenvägg.
ERLING "Steinvegg/Stonewall (-Tønsberg 1207, bur Tønsberg, Olavskyrka). King of the Bagler in Norway 1204. The Icelandic Annals record that "Erlingus Steinveggus" was raised to "regiam dignitatem" in 1204.
von Nackreij - Skytte, Volume 3, page 371
(Ev. Förebild för Arns polare från Norge i Arn-böckerna!)
Baglerkonge Erling Steinvegg by the NORWEGIAN BIOGRAPHICAL LEXICON
THIS ARTICLE WAS PRINTED IN THE NORWEGIAN BIOGRAPHICAL LEXICON , PUBLISHED 1999-2005. More recent articles can be found in the Store Norwegian Encyclopedia .
Baglerkonge. Parents: The father was claimed to be King Magnus 5 Erlingsson (1156–84); the mother is unknown. We do not know if he was married. Father of Sigurd Ribbung (1203–26).
Erling Steinvegg was made king of the bagler party in the turmoil that arose after Håkon Sverresson's death in 1204, but neither he nor his son Sigurd Ribbung succeeded in preventing the birch bones from becoming the final victors in the power struggle for Norway.
In the Skåne market in Skanör in the autumn of 1203 a man appeared who called himself Erling and claimed himself the son of King Magnus Erlingsson. He claimed that he was the same Erling that King Sverre had a number of years earlier had his brother-in-law, the Swedish king Knut Eriksson, seize and put in the "stone wall" (the stone tower) on Visingsö in Vättern. From there he should have escaped, and because of this he was later nicknamed Steinvegg.
In the Skåne market there were 1203, as usual, a good number of Norwegians, among them former baglers who had left Norway after Håkon Sverresson was taken king in 1202. They wanted to follow Erling, but he did not find it advisable to go flock to the friendly king Håkon and went to Copenhagen instead. He probably already met with goodwill on the Danish king Valdemar 2, who wanted to restore the former Danish supremacy over Viken (the area around the Oslo Fjord).
When King Håkon Sverresson's peace work collapsed with his sudden death at New Year 1204, and a group of ambitious birch bones chiefs came to power in the government around the child king Guttorm Sigurdsson, the bagels were expecting poor conditions in Norway. Some of them visited Erling Steinvegg in Copenhagen. They traveled and then went to Viken, where people joined them. This must have happened with King Valdemar's support.
The Oslo Bishop Bishop, Nikolas Arnesson, is said to have initially opposed Erling's throne in favor of his own sister's son, the later baker King Philip Simonsson, but swung over to support Erling's royal tribute to Philip being appointed Earl. This happened in Tønsberg in the summer of 1204, where King Valdemar found himself with a fleet of over 300 ships. To prove his provenance, Erling carried iron burdens in the presence of the Danish king, and was given 35 ships by him. Afterwards, with the support of army men and peasants, he was taken king at Haugating in Tønsberg and shortly afterwards also at Borgarting east of the fjord. Without being told directly in the so-called Bagle sagas (Bǫglunga sǫgur), which is the main source of Erling's history, he must have committed himself to fight his kingdom with Valdemar as supreme.
The Birkebeinert tradition in the longer version of Bǫglunga sawdust and Håkon Håkonsson's saga has been carried out hostile to Erling Steinvegg. It claims to have evidence that the actual Erling Steinvegg was taken off days after he escaped from Visingsö.
The way things were, it seems that the bagler chiefs who had fought King Sverre were content to follow his Erling Steinvegg, even though the birch leg tradition seeks to question his leadership skills. Despite the fact that the birch bones, with their foothold in Trøndelag and Western Norway, were the militarily stronger party, the baglers in Erling's royal period managed to conduct successful raids by sea to Western Norway in 1204 and in the following two years also against Trøndelag, where they received Erling king at Øyrating in Trondheim 1205.
In Viken, Erling was largely in control of his headquarters in Tønsberg. He placed great emphasis on shipbuilding, and he issued letters that took Hovedøy monastery in royal protection and confirmed gifts of earthen goods to the monastery.
In the new year 1207, Erling fell ill and died after a short illness in Tønsberg, where he was buried in the Olav church "in the northern stone wall from the altar". He left behind his four-year-old son, Sigurd, to whom he had fathered the paternity, and an older son, Magnus, whom he required iron burdens to approve, apparently without this test being completed when he died.
Sigurd later became chief of the ribbing flock that rose against King Håkon Håkonsson and Skule Earl in eastern Norway during the winter of 1219-20. It is precisely at this time that the birchbone-friendly longer version of the Bǫglunga sawmill appears to have been completed, and the erased backlash of Erling Steinvegg there and in the first part of Håkon's saga is explained in light of the threat his son posed to the birchbone kingdom now put its power to finally undermine Eastern Norway.
Links
https://nbl.snl.no/Erling_Steinvegg
https://www.nrk.no/kultur/erling-_magnusson_-steinvegg_-inge-2-bard...