Magnus VI
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Magnus Haakonsson was King of Norway from 1263 to 1280. One of his greatest achievements was the modernisation and nationalisation of the Norwegian law-code, after which he is known as Magnus the Law-mender. He was the first Norwegian monarch known to have used an ordinal number, although originally counting himself as "IV".
Contemporary bust of Magnus VI from the Stavanger Cathedral, dated c. 1270s–80s.
Page from the national law (Landslov) of Magnus.
Magnus giving his national law to a lawman, illumination from the 14th century Codex Hardenbergianus.
Image: Kong Magnus Haakonsson PI VI 1
Monarchy of Norway
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The Norwegian monarch is the head of state of Norway, which is a constitutional and hereditary monarchy with a parliamentary system. The Norwegian monarchy can trace its line back to the reign of Harald Fairhair and the previous petty kingdoms which were united to form Norway; it has been in unions with both Sweden and Denmark for long periods.
Monarchy of Norway
King Harald receives Norway out of his father's hands in this illustration from the 14th-century Flateyjarbók.
King Frederick III
The Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814.