Bengt Snivil

Bengt Snivil
Noble family	Bjälbo
Issue	Birger Brosa Magnus Minnesköld Karl the Deaf
Father	Folke the Fat
Mother	Ingegerd Knutsdotter of Denmark

Bengt Snivil (also known as Bengt Snivel) from the House of Bjälbo was a Swedish magnate in mid-12th century.

Some more or less romantic later literature has given him the title of jarl, although no proper historical source attests to such. Romantic genealogies assign a lady Sigrid Lakman as his wife, though without historical source.^[citation needed]

Arguably, Bengt Snivil was that Bengt or Benedict, who was son of riksjarl Folke the Fat and Ingegerd Knutsdotter of Denmark, daughter of king Canute IV of Denmark.[1]

Children

Children of Bengt Snivil, who thus became an ancestor of important magnates and the future royal family:

• Riksjarl Birger Brosa[1]
• Magnus Minnesköld, father of Birger Jarl[1]
• Karl the Deaf, father of father of jarl Ulf Fase

Notes

1. Lindström, p 274

References

• Lindström, Fredrik; Lindström, Henrik (2006). Svitjods undergång och Sveriges födelse (in Swedish). Albert Bonniers förlag. ISBN 978-91-0-010789-5.