Sverker II of Sweden

Sverker the Younger, or Sverker II (before 1167–1210), was the son of King Karl Sverkersson of Sweden and grew up in Denmark after his father was killed in 1167. Chosen king in 1196, he issued a charter of church privileges in 1200, Sweden's oldest surviving document, and married Ingegerd, Jarl Birger Brosa's daughter.

In 1205 he defeated the sons of Knut Eriksson at Älgarås, but in 1208 Erik Knutsson overthrew him at the Battle of Lena. Sverker was killed at the Battle of Gestilren on 17 July 1210.