Haakon I Adalsteinsfostre

Haakon I Adalsteinsfostre

▪ king of Norway
byname  Haakon The Good,  Norwegian  Håkon Den Gode 
born c. 920
died c. 961, , Fitjar, Nor.

      Norwegian king and one of the most eminent Scandinavian rulers of his time. He fostered the growth of governmental institutions but failed in his attempt to Christianize the lesser Norwegian chieftains.

      Haakon, the youngest son of Harald I Fairhair, was brought up at the court of the English king Athelstan. At the age of 15, after his father died, he returned to Norway and deposed his half brother Erik Bloodax (Erik I) (reigned c. 930–935), who had earned his name by murdering seven of his eight half brothers.

      Haakon had been reared as a Christian in England, and he brought English missionaries to Norway and built a few churches; but he was resisted in his efforts at Christianization by the Norwegian chieftains. He had greater success in compelling each coastal district to provide warships for his fleet and in helping the three great law districts to develop codes of law and administration. Meanwhile, with Danish aid, Erik Bloodax's sons, including Haakon's successor, Harald II Graycloak, who had all taken refuge in Denmark, launched raids on Norway against Haakon's forces and eventually killed him in battle on the island of Fitjar, in southwestern Norway. His reign was dated as c. 933–960 by medieval historians but later was more reliably approximated as c. 946–961.

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