Bengt Snivil
Swedish politician
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Bengt Snivil (also known as Bengt Snivel) was a Swedish magnate in the mid-12th century from the House of Bjälbo.
FatherFolke the Fat
Bengt Snivil | |
|---|---|
| Noble family | Bjälbo |
| Issue | Birger Brosa Magnus Minnesköld Karl the Deaf |
| Father | Folke the Fat |
| Mother | Ingegerd Knutsdotter of Denmark |
Some more or less romantic later literature has given him the title of jarl, although no proper historical source attests to such. Romantic genealogies assign a lady Sigrid Lakman as his wife, though without historical source.[citation needed]
Bengt Snivil was the "Bengt" or "Benedict" who was son of riksjarl Folke the Fat and Ingegerd Knutsdotter of Denmark, daughter of king Canute IV of Denmark.[1]
Children
Bengt Snivil had multiple children, one of which became the ancestor of important magnates and the future Swedish royal family:
- Riksjarl Birger Brosa[1]
- Magnus Minnesköld, father of Birger Jarl[1]
- Karl the Deaf, father of father of jarl Ulf Fase
