Valdemar Birgersson

King of Sweden from 1250 to 1275

Valdemar Birgersson
Valdemar or Waldemar (Swedish: Valdemar Birgersson; 1239 – 26 December 1302) was King of Sweden from 1250 to 1275. Biography. Valdemar was the son of the Swedish princess Ingeborg Eriksdotter and Birger Jarl, from the House of Bjälbo. When Ingeborg's brother King Erik Eriksson died in 1250, though a child, Valdemar was elected king and crowned the following year in the cathedral at Linköping. During the first sixteen years of Valdemar's reign, it was Birger Jarl who was the real ruler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdemar,_King_of_Sweden

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