Background
He became king after his father Stenkil"s death (1066), and he may have ruled together with his brother Inge the Elder.
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Career
The date of his death is not known. Little is known of his time as king. In a scholia in the work of Adam of Bremen, he is reported to have been elected king after the death of two pretenders, but deposed after a short while.
However, the king "A" could also be Håkan the Red.
In the regnal list of the Westrogothic law, he is said to have been courteous and cheerful, and whenever a case was submitted to him, he judged fairly, and this was why Sweden mourned his death. He was the father of the co-rulers Philip and Inge the Younger.
The Hervarar saga, which is one of the few sources about the kings of this time, has the following to tell:.
