Inge Magnusson

Inge Magnusson

Inge Magnusson (* around 1182; † 1202 on Storøya (now Helgøya) in Lake Mjøsa ) was Norwegian king of the Bagler Party from 1196 until his death in 1202 .

According to the version popularized by the baglers , his father was Magnus Erlingsson (1156–1184). His mother is unknown.

Together with Bishop Nikolas Arnason, who fled to Denmark , and many Norwegians, he came to the Halör market in Scania, then Danish, in 1196 . Here the rebellion against King Sverre was decided and Inge, who claimed to be the son of King Magnus Eringsson, was proclaimed king. The Birkebeiner, on the other hand, claimed that Inge was a Dane and that his name was actually Torgils Tuveskitt. Inge was still a child at the time and only had symbolic functions as a figure of identification for the Bagler.

After the Birkebeiners withdrew from Viken , Inge was proclaimed king on the Borgarting in 1196. The following year Inge was in the custody of Hallvard von Såstad in Opland , probably on his estate in Stange in Hedmark . After Christmas Inge moved with the baglers to Trondheim , which they captured in 1198. Inge was then awarded the title of king on the Øyrating. Inge first appeared as a military leader in an attack by Baglers on Nidaros in 1199. After that, his role in the Bagler Party grew. When the Bagler 1200 arrived from Denmark, Inge was the leader of the fleet together with Reidar Sendemann. They took Nidaros again from the birch legs and successfully defended it against a peasant army. They then moved south but were held back by mountains and went to Viken, where they were well received. From then on, Inge initially stayed in the eastern parts of the country, whereas Reidar sat with his armed forces in Tønsberg .

According to the Bagler saga, after Sverre's death, the Baglers had the whole coast in Sogn og Fjordane and Møre . But after the heavy fighting in Vestlandet , the baglers withdrew to Østlandet . In the course of the year 1202 the troop strength decreased continuously as the population joined more and more King Håkon Sverreson . In the summer he also lost the support of the Church. Archbishop Eirik Ivarsson and the other bishops who had been the mainstay of the Baglers compared themselves to Håkon. King Inge retired with his crew to the island of Storøya (now Helgøya) in Lake Mjøsa. Here he was murdered by treason by his own people. When the Baglers in the rest of the country learned of the king's death, they fled and the Baglers party disbanded.

See also

• Bagler
• Bagler Wars

literature

• Knut Peter Lyche Arstad: Article “Inge Magnusson” in: Norsk biografisk leksikon , accessed on November 4, 2010.

predecessor	Office	successor
Jon Kuvlung	Anti-King of Norway 1196–1202	Håkon Sverresson