Håkon VI of Norway
Håkon VI of Norway (1340 - 1380) king de Norvège 1343 with 1380 and Co-king de Suède of 1362 with 1363
Second wire of Magnus IV of White Sweden and of Namur born in 1340. As of 1343 it is proclaimed heir apparent to the kingdom of Norway which it controls indeed starting from 1355.
In 1359 after the death of his older brother Eric XII of Sweden it is associated by his father with the government of this country. When Magnus IV of Sweden is deposited by large kingdom in February 1362 Haakon VI of Norway persite to maintain his/her father as Co-regent. He refuses Elisabeth of Holstein, been engaged which is proposed to him by Riskrad, the assembly of noble of Sweden, to marry the April 9th 1363 Marguerite Ire of Denmark the girl of the king Valdemar IV of Denmark.
He is then deposited with his father in 1364 and his first cousin; the duke of Mecklembourg is selected like the king Albert of Sweden. The Norwegian army is demolished with the battle of Enkoeping and the king Magnus IV of Sweden, made captive, will be released by his son only in 1371.
Haahon VI of Norway continues to reign in Norway by preserving however the Swedish provinces of Wästergötland, Dal and Värmland.
Of the queen Marguerite Ire of Denmark it had only one only son Olaf born into 1370 who became the heir to the three Scandinavian kingdoms under the names Oluf III of Denmark and Olaf IV of Norway.
Haakon VI of Norway died in August or September 1380.
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