Magnus IV of Norway

Magnus IV Armours ( the Blind man ) (1115 - 1139) king de Norvège of 1130 with 1135

Wire illegitimate of the king Sigurd I {{er}} of Norway, it must agree to share the capacity with Harald IV of Norway. Gillechrit which had been made recognize by his/her father like a son of Magnus III of Norway and of an Irish.

Overcome by Harald IV of Norway it is mutilated, castrated, plugged and locked up in a monastery of the Trondelag in Nidarholm an small island with broad of Trondheim.

It is released by Sigurd Slembedjak another alleged son of Magnus III of Norway with which Harald IV refused to share the capacity. Magnus IV is killed in Holmengraa at the time of a combat the November 12th 1139, against the partisans of two wire of Harald IV: Inge I {{er}} of Norway and Sigurd II of Norway still children, elected kings by the noble ones after the murder of their father by Sigurd Slembedjak. This last captive fact is tortured with died by its enemies.

Magnus IV had married in 1133 Christine the girl of the Danish prince Knud Lavard which he repudiated quickly.

Sources

Heimskringla of Snorri Sturluson

Sagas off the Norse Kings " Magnus the Blind and Harald Gille", Chapter XIII (English translation)

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