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See also:BIRGER (?-1266) , See also:Swedish statesman, See also:nephew of Birger Brosa, and the most famous member of the See also:ancient See also:noble See also:family of the Folkungeatten, which had so much to say for itself in See also:early Swedish See also:history, was created jarl of Bjalbo by See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Erik Eriksson in 1248 and married the king's See also:sister. On Erik's See also:death(1250) Birger's son Valdemar was elected king while his See also:father acted as See also:regent. During the sixteen years of his sway See also:Sweden advanced greatly in fame and prosperity. In 1249 he led an expedition to See also:Finland, built the fortress of See also:Tavastehus, and thus laid the See also:foundations of Sweden's oversea See also:empire. He also built See also:Stockholm, and enriched it by making it the See also:chief mart for the See also:trade of See also:Lubeck, with which See also:city he concluded a commercial treaty. As a lawgiver also Birger laboured strenuously in the interests of See also:civilization. In his old See also:age he married the daughter of King See also:Abel. There is a See also:fine statue of the See also:great jarl in the Riddarholm See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church at Stockholm, erected by See also:Fogelberg at the expense of the Stockholm magistracy in 1884. He is also the central figure of Fr. Hedberg's See also:drama Brollopet pd Ulfdsa (1865).
See Sveriges Historia, vol. i. (Stockholm, 1879-1883).
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