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Olaf Haraldsson, also called Saint Olaf, Olaf the Holy, Olaf II, and Olaf the Stout or "Large", was King of Norway from 1015 to 1028. Son of Harald Grenske, a petty king in Vestfold, Norway, he was posthumously given the title Rex Perpetuus Norvegiae and canonized at Nidaros (Trondheim) by Bishop Grimketel, one year after his death in the Battle of Stiklestad on 29 July 1030. His remains were ensh…
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politics · King of Norway from 1015 to 1028 · monarch · also Olaf II of Norway, Olaf Haraldsson, St. Olaf, Olaf the Stout, Olaf the Lawbreaker, Olaf the Holy
Born 0995 · Died 29 July 1030 · Q208331
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The city and the diocese of Rouen celebrated the millennium of the baptism of Saint Olav with the Norwegian representatives of the Catholic Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway
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And reinaugurated by Bishop John Willem Gran, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo
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Rue Duguay-Trouin, near the home of the Scandinavian sailors
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For the golden jubilee of his ordination as a bishop by Norwegian nobleman and papal chamberlain Baron Wilhelm Wedel-Jarlsberg
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By Oscar I, king of Norway and Sweden, in memory of the king
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Died 1030-07-29.
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Career landmark: Monarch of Norway (1015–1028).
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Born 0995.
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