Talk:Haakon V

Latest comment: 11 years ago by Barend in topic Moving the capital to Oslo

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"...his mother (who was daughter of Jutta of Saxony..." and, in the infobox, "Ingeborg Eriksdatter". These don't square. --Wetman 08:48, 12 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Jutta was married to Erik Plovpenning of Denmark Fornadan (t) 17:10, 12 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Is this Haakon Magnusson, clan-father of Clan Grant?Norgy (talk) 17:40, 5 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Isabelle de Joigny edit

Some sources give his first wife as Isabelle de Joigny, daughter of Jean II de Joigny. Is this true?--Queen Elizabeth II's Little Spy (talk) 01:27, 15 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Moving the capital to Oslo edit

Bergen#History says that Oslo became the capital in 1299, and this article says that Haakon moved the capital in 1314. Oslo#History is rather vague about the thing. howcheng {chat} 20:51, 29 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

The reason is that the term "capital" in this context is a bit of an anachronism. There was no officially proclaimed capital at this time, it is a question of looking at where the King spent most of his time, and where elements of a state apparatus started to appear. An uncontroversial statement would be that the functions of a capital moved from Bergen to Oslo during Haakon V's reign.--Barend (talk) 13:23, 20 June 2012 (UTC)Reply