Erling Steinvegg
Erling Steinvegg († 1207 in Tønsberg ) is buried in the St. Olav Church monastery in Tønsberg Norwegian king was the Baglerpartei. His parents are not known for sure. You also do not know if he was married, only that he was the father of Sigurd Ribbung ( 1203-1226 ).
The sources on his life are two versions of the Bagler saga, one of the Baglern, the longer one from the Birkebeinern and also wrote of the Birkebeinern Håkon Håkonsson saga.
On the Skåne market in Skanör occurred in the fall of 1203 to a man who called himself Erling and claimed to be, to be the son of King Magnus Erlingsson, exactly the Erling, the Swedish king Knut Eriksson caught earlier at the instigation of King Sverre's taken and in the " Steinveggen " (stone tower) have held on Visingsö. He was able to escape from there. This led to his nickname " Steinvegg ". The Birkebeinern the related sources claim, however, that there was evidence that the real Erling had been killed after his escape from Steinvegg.
But neither he nor his son Sigurd Ribbung managed to prevent the Birkebeiner the final victory in the battle for dominion in Norway.
In the early 1203 market were many Norwegians, including many former Bagler who had left Norway after 1202 Håkon Sverresson had been proclaimed king. They wanted Erling anti-king collect, but this found it inconvenient to compete against the victorious king Håkon, and moved instead to Copenhagen, where he received the support of Valdemar II, who thereby hoped the recovery of the former sovereignty over the area around the Oslo Fjord.
When King Håkon Sverreson in the first days of the year in 1204, died suddenly and some Birkebeinerhäuptlinge by the minor king Guttorm Sigurdsson gathered and practiced for that the regency, sought some leading Bagler Erling Steinvegg on in Copenhagen. They put together a band and moved to Oslo Fjord, where they were well received by the population. The support of King Valdemar for this company is considered safe. The belonging to the Baglern Bishop Nikolas Arnason, who had initially been an opponent of Erling's throne candidacy because he would have preferred to see his nephew, the later Baglerkönig Philip Simonsson, acting as king, now supported Erling against the commitment that Philip Jarl would be. That happened in 1204, broke in as King Valdemar with more than 300 ships in the Oslo fjord. After Erling had proved in the presence of the Danish king his royal lineage with the iron sample, he was informed of this 35 ships. He was then with the support of the army on the Haugating in Tønsberg, and shortly thereafter to the east proclaimed on the Borgarting king. Although the Bagler saga, the main source of the fate Erling, is silent, it can be assumed that he could gain the necessary support Waldemar only against recognition of its sovereignty over the area around the Oslo Fjord. Danish sources confirm that he had Waldemar done fealty.
Although the Birkebeiner were militarily superior due to their bases in Trøndelag and in Vestlandet, succeeded in Baglern in 1204, victorious war trains to Vestlandet and in the following years to even start to Trøndelag, so that Erling 1205 proclaimed on the Øyrating in Trondheim king been.
On New Year 1207 Erling fell ill and died soon after in Tønsberg. He was buried on the north wall of St. Olav monastery church.
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