Inge II of Norway

Inge II Bårdsson (1185 - 1217) was king de Norvège of 1205 at 1217.

Inge II Bårdsson was a son of Cecilia, the sister of the king Sverre Sigurdsson, and powerful tycoon Bård Guttormsson de Rein (+1194). Its half older brother, Håkon Galin, regent under the preceding reign, were made Jarl and accepted half of the royal income.

The war taken again between the Birkebeiner and the Baglers . Birkebeiner which had the fleet of Sverre were the most powerful party but it undergoes nevertheless heavy losses. In 1206 Baglers surprised and took Trondheim and captured their fleet. Several Birkebeiner chiefs fell and king Inge did not escape that from accuracy from the capture. When Erling Steinvegg died in March 1207, Philippe Simonsson was proclaimed king by Baglers. They took Bergen twice and destroyed the royal castle built by Sverre. Their countryside was rather tried raids when Birkebeiner were in another place of the country. After years of carnage and destruction none of the two camps could carry it. The two parties gave up their bloody quarrel in which none seemed to be able to obtain the victory. A peace was concluded in the islands from Hvittingsey to the Rogaland during the summer 1208, Philippe received the Viken in stronghold and owed homage to Inge as suzerain, this last controlled the Ranrike directly. Thus the independence and the integrity of Norway were assured.

When the civil war was finished by the peace of 1208 of the friendly relations were established with the Denmark and the two parties were linked in a forwarding with the the Orkneys (1209-1210) where Jarl Haraldr II Maddadarson (+1206) had been declared again independent. Its sons David of the Orkneys (+1210) and Jon of the Orkneys (+1231) which had succeeded to him were subjected without resistance, they preserved the archipelago whose big part of the income was again collected by the king of Norway.

The king Ragnvald Gudrodsson of island of Man and the Hébrides who had rejected the Norwegian suzerainty of also subjecting itself. He comes to Norway the Jura fidelity and promised to pay a tribute. These forwardings provided a derivative well come from the désœuvrés warriors who were a source of disorder and danger in period of peace. After the return of forwarding to the the Orkneys several left in crusade in Palestine under the command the chief Baglers Hreidar Sendemand, the son-in-law of Magnus Erlingsson and Peter Steyper a nephew of king Sverre. Steyper died on the way but Hreidar arrived out of Holy Land, it entered then to the service of the emperor of Constantinople where it died in 1214.

During the last years of its pontificate Innocent III preached a new general Crusade in the country of Western Europe. Many Norwegian took the cross and king Inge who was too sick to take part in it promised to send boats and warriors the assistance of the crusaders when he died in Trondheim the April 23rd 1217 before the 5th crusade does not begin. Of fragile health king Inge II Bárdarson had lived initially under the influence of his brother of Håkon Galin which thought the évincer when death in 1214 put an end to its intrigues then under that of different sound young half-brother, the ambitious Skúli Bárdarson, wire of Baard Guttormsson and his second wife Ragnhild Erlingsdatter.

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