Boleslaw of Sweden

Burislev Sverkersson, also Boleslav, ( † around 1172 probably) was together with his brother Col., on the nothing else is known pretender in Götaland.

His parents were Sverker the Elder and his second wife Rikissa of Poland. He was probably named after their father Boleslav of Poland. After the death of Charles Sverkersson he tried to be head of his family and their supporters, and to have been proclaimed in Götaland king. Anyway, there are sources that call him that. After the king of the series Västgötalag Knut Eriksson had prevailed within his realm and except Karl Sverkersson 1167 and "King and King Kol Burislev " killed in combat. Burislev appears to have been killed in 1169, while Kol did not fall before 1173, apparently at the Battle of Bjälbo in Östergötland. Probably the two have continued the fight against Knut after the assassination of Karl Sverkersons and ultimately lost.

After that there were no male descendants of Sverker more. After the then inheritance the inheritance went to his half-sister Sofia from the first marriage Rikissas with the Russian princes Volodar of Minsk. Since Sofia was married to Valdemar I of Denmark, a large part of the possessions of Sverker passed into the possession of the Danish royal family. But they were returned by Waldemar these transferred his extramarital son Knut Reval, thereby received his son Svantepolk a particularly prominent position in the second half of the 13th century.