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See also:OLAF (II.) HARAt SS N (995–1030), 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 from 1016–1029, called during his lifetime " the See also:Fat," and afterwards known as St Olaf, was See also:born in 995, the See also:year in which Olaf Tryggvesson came to See also:Norway. After some years' See also:absence in See also:England, fighting the Danes, he returned to Norway in ro15 and declared himself king, obtaining the support of the five See also:petty See also:kings of the Uplands. In 1016 he defeated See also:Earl Sveyn, hitherto the virtual ruler of Norway, at the See also:battle of Nesje, and within a few years had won more See also:power than had been enjoyed by any of his predecessors on the See also:throne. He had annihilated the petty kings of the See also:South, had crushed the See also:aristocracy, enforced the See also:acceptance of See also:Christianity throughout the See also:kingdom, asserted his See also:suzerainty in the See also:Orkney Islands, had humbled the king of See also:Sweden and married his daughter in his despite, and had conducted a successful See also:raid on See also:Denmark. But his success was See also:short-lived, for in 1029 the See also:Norwegian nobles, seething with discontent, rallied See also:round the invading Knelt the See also:Great, and Olaf had to flee to See also:Russia. On his return a year later he See also:fell at the battle of Stiklestad, where his own subjects were arrayed against him. The succeeding years of disunion and See also:misrule under the Danes explain the belated See also:affection with which his countrymen came to regard him. The cunning and See also:cruelty which marred his See also:character were forgotten, and his services to his 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 and See also:country remembered. Miracles were worked at his See also:tomb, and in 1164 he was canonized and was declared the See also:patron See also:saint of Norway, whence his fame spread throughout Scandinavia and even to England, where churches are dedicated to him. The Norwegian See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of See also:knighthood of St Olaf was founded in 1847 by Oscar I., king of Sweden and Norway, in memory of this king.
The three remaining Norwegian kings of this name are persons of See also:minor importance (see NORWAY: See also:History).
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