Inge the Younger
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Inge the Younger was King of Sweden in c. 1110–c. 1125 and probably the youngest son of king Halsten.<ref name="national">The article Inge d.y. in Nationalencyklopedin (1992).</ref><ref name="nordisk">The article Inge, section 2. I. den yngre in Nordisk familjebok (1910).</ref> According to unreliable traditions, Inge would have ruled together with his brother Philip Halstensson after the death of their uncle, Inge the Elder.<ref name="national"/><ref name="nordisk"/> In English literature both have also been called Ingold.<ref>Gary Dean Peterson Warrior Kings of Sweden: The Rise of an Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Template:ISBN p. 8</ref>
Hallstein's sons were Philip and Ingi, and they succeeded to the Kingdom of Sweden after King Ingi the elder. (The 13th century Hervarar saga)<ref name="Hervarar">"Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks" Template:Webarchive, Guðni Jónsson's and Bjarni Vilhjálmsson's edition at Norrøne Tekster og Kvad. English translation by N. Kershaw: "The Saga of Hervör and Heithrek" Template:Webarchive in Stories and Ballads of the Far Past, translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese). Cambridge University Press, 1921.</ref>
Other sources say that after the death of Philip (1118), Inge the Younger was the sole king of Sweden,<ref name="national"/> but the year of his own death is unknown.<ref name="nordisk"/> According to the regnal list in the Westrogothic law, Inge was poisoned with an evil drink in Östergötland:<ref name="nordisk"/>
Niunði war Ingi konongær, broðher Philipusær konongs, oc heter æptir Ingæ kononge, Halstens konongs brødhær. Hanum war firigiort mæð ondom dryk i Østrægøtlanði, oc fek aff þy banæ. Æn Sweriki for e wæl, mædhæn þer frænlingær rædhu.<ref>The regnal list of the Westrogothic law at a personal site., retrieved January 20, 2007.</ref>
The tenth (Christian king) was king Inge, the brother of king Philip, and he was named after king Inge (the Elder). He was killed by evil drink in Östergötland and it was his bane. But Sweden fared forever well, while these kinsmen ruled.<ref>Translation provided by Wikipedia editors.</ref>
It is not known whether Inge was still alive when the Norwegian king Sigurd I of Norway invaded Småland in the Kalmar Crusade in 1123, but when Inge died, it was the end of the House of Stenkil.<ref name="national"/><ref name="nordisk"/>
Inge is reported to have been married to Ulvhild Håkansdotter who was the daughter of the Norwegian Haakon Finnsson and who would later marry the Danish king Nils Svensson and even later the Swedish king Sverker the Elder.<ref name="nordisk"/> A story that has her assassinating King Inge with a poisoned beverage<ref>Lagerquist & Åberg in Kings and Rulers of Sweden Template:ISBN p. 14</ref> cannot be substantiated. According to another tradition, he was also the husband of Ragnhild of Tälje.
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