On the basis of this, Swedish historians such as Nils Ahnlund and Adolf Schück have claimed instead that there were two different Boleslaw, uncle and nephew thus the contenders were indeed sired by John, who died a young man in c.
However, according to a medieval genealogy, Boleslaw, Kol and a third brother called Ubbe the Strong were in fact the sons of King Sverker I's son John. Older Swedish historians, such as Natanael Beckman who wrote a biographical article in Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, therefore claimed that Boleslaw and Kol were sons of Sverker. He was named for his maternal grandfather Bolesław III Wrymouth. From this marriage a son called Bulizlaus (Boleslaw, Burislev) was born, as apparent from a Danish administrative document. Sverker married, as his second wife, Richeza of Poland. 1156), but the exact pedigree is not clear. Boleslaw is believed either to have been murdered by King Canute's men, or to have fled to Poland in or before 1173.īoleslaw was a descendant of the old King Sverker I of Sweden (d.
The two pretenders, who were brothers, half-brothers, or uncle and nephew, may never have controlled much more than the Province of Östergötland, which was the base of the dynasty.
He acted in concert with his kinsman Kol against King Canute I of Sweden, then head of the House of Eric. Boleslaw (Swedish: Burislev died 1172/73) was a Swedish pretender for the throne, belonging to the House of Sverker.
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