Legendary Swedish King. He lived approximately 620 to 655 and reigned over Swealand, or the central Swea Region part of Sweden which developed into that country by about 980 A.D. The last ruler of Sweden to belong directly to the ancient Yngling Dynasty of Upsala, he has also been counted (speculatively) as King Ingold III, supposedly because of a common name base which is no longer clear, and in some sources is called Ingemundus and Ingo. According to the Yngling Saga of historian Snorri Sturluson he was the son of King Anwynd the Breaker. His epithet – Illrate or Illready - is because of the lamented treachery he used (rate then alluding to power and the treatment of others, as in berating) in eliminating twelve mini-kings or regional chieftains, half of them by inviting them to a feast, locking them in a hall and burning it down to enlarge his own realm. Some have held that the Swedish kingdom in its somewhat modern form already was created in Swealand at this time and through these dastardly deeds. He had a son Olaf Woodwhittler (Olov Trätälja) who settled and ruled over Vermillandia in the west but was assassinated there because of a hunger crisis. The subsequent Norwegian kings descended from Olaf's son King Halfdan Whiteshanks of Solør. King Ingold also had a daughter Aasa who married King Godred of Scania and got him to kill his brother, which led to his own assassination. His nephew amassed troops to attack Aasa, who had fled back to her father, and she and Ingold killed themselves by getting everyone drunk and burning their own hall down with everyone in it. The vengeful nephew, Ivor Widefathom (Ivar Vidfamne), took over Sweden and eventually Denmark, Saxony, Estonia, Courland and Northumberland in England. There has been much debate for hundreds of years about Ingold Illrate's story and which tumulus is his. According to historian Åke Ohlmarks, his dramatic suicide probably took place at Rällinge Castle of which ruins exist. A stronger case is for the Ränninge location of a similar name.