80:. On the basis of this, Swedish historians such as Nils Ahnlund and Adolf SchĂĽck have claimed instead that there were two different Boleslaw, uncle and nephew; thus the contenders were indeed sired by John, who died a young man in c. 1152. A medieval list of monastic donations indicates that a certain Ragnhild was the mother of Kol and probably Boleslaw, and consequently the wife of John. She is known to have survived him and presumably raised her children during the turbulent years following John's and Sverker I's deaths, before entering
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he was assaulted by Canute's troops and killed. Still later traditions have it that Kol and then
Boleslaw were killed in battle at Blodåkrarna (the Blood Fields) close to Bjälbo, in 1169. Most probably, however, the struggle came to an end in 1172–73, since Canute reportedly reigned for 23 years
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Burislev, had many fights in Sweden and was victorious in all". Otherwise, he appears in fewer medieval sources than his brother whose name occurs in several king-lists. According to annotations by the 17th-century
59:. From this marriage a son called Bulizlaus (Boleslaw, Burislev) was born, as apparent from a Danish administrative document. He was named for his maternal grandfather
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711:Magnus III
670:Knut LĂĄnge
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299:Fornvännen
214:Fornvännen
183:"Jon jarl"
149:"Burislev"
134:References
84:as a nun.
47:Background
19:(Swedish:
1273:Norwegian
1165:1751–1818
1156:Oldenburg
1109:1654–1751
1073:Christina
1058:Sigismund
1036:1523–1654
836:Eric XIII
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88:Civil war
74:Sverker I
1236:Gustaf V
1231:Oscar II
1053:John III
1048:Eric XIV
1043:Gustav I
801:Margaret
784:indicate
706:Valdemar
653:Eric "X"
638:Boleslaw
559:Magnus I
99:scholar
21:Burislev
17:Boleslaw
1221:Oscar I
964:John II
786:regents
782:Italics
584:·
582:Sverker
526:Halsten
511:Halsten
501:Stenkil
484:Stenkil
303:p. 212.
113:Cecilia
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735:Haakon
716:Birger
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282:10 Oct
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301:1951
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