King of Sweden. His year of birth is approximate. Belonging to the Steinchetellian Dynasty, he was the elder son of King Alstan (Hallsten) who died when Philip was in his mid-to-lower teens, leaving his uncle Ingi the Elder to rule until 1112. Philip's reign then lasted for six years, during which he may, according to some historians, have shared the throne with his younger brother, Ingi the Younger. A legend professing that the Apostle Philip had visited the old Swea Region and/or Gothenland about a thousand years earlier has been quoted in motivating the name of this king, unusual then in Scandinavia. His queen, who married him in 1095, when she was about 45 and he only about 25, was Ingigarth, already a widowed Queen of Denmark whose maternal grandmother and namesake was the daughter of Sweden's important ruler Olaf Scotking. Despite their age gap, Philip had courted her immediately after the death of her first husband, Olaf I Hunger. Her father was King Harold III Hardrate of Norway. She was about 70, Philip about 50, when he died without children and left his brother on the throne. Though he had provided her with an escape from hard times and dire circumstances then prevailing in Denmark, she ended up in a hornet's nest of intrigue and conspiracy that still dominated Swedish political life since the new religion had been established the century before. The site of Philip's grave, though unknown in detail, can with reasonable certainty be assumed to be somewhere at Vreta with other Steinchetellian royalty.
King of Sweden. His year of birth is approximate. Belonging to the Steinchetellian Dynasty, he was the elder son of King Alstan (Hallsten) who died when Philip was in his mid-to-lower teens, leaving his uncle Ingi the Elder to rule until 1112. Philip's reign then lasted for six years, during which he may, according to some historians, have shared the throne with his younger brother, Ingi the Younger. A legend professing that the Apostle Philip had visited the old Swea Region and/or Gothenland about a thousand years earlier has been quoted in motivating the name of this king, unusual then in Scandinavia. His queen, who married him in 1095, when she was about 45 and he only about 25, was Ingigarth, already a widowed Queen of Denmark whose maternal grandmother and namesake was the daughter of Sweden's important ruler Olaf Scotking. Despite their age gap, Philip had courted her immediately after the death of her first husband, Olaf I Hunger. Her father was King Harold III Hardrate of Norway. She was about 70, Philip about 50, when he died without children and left his brother on the throne. Though he had provided her with an escape from hard times and dire circumstances then prevailing in Denmark, she ended up in a hornet's nest of intrigue and conspiracy that still dominated Swedish political life since the new religion had been established the century before. The site of Philip's grave, though unknown in detail, can with reasonable certainty be assumed to be somewhere at Vreta with other Steinchetellian royalty.
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