King of Sweden. Belonging to the Steinchetellian Dynasty, he was a son of the founder King Steinchetel and a grandson of King Edmund (III) the Old or the Slimy. Counted by some sources (speculatively) as Ingold IV of Sweden and called Ingo and Ingemundus in Latin, he was born around the year given. At least for the last 5-6 years of his brother King Alstan's reign they were co-rulers, but Ingold had the throne by himself from about 1084 when Alstan died. Ingold the Elder reigned for about 30 years, residing mainly in Westrogothland. This was a period of great expansion for the Roman church throughout his realm, and after an insurrection led by the notorious King Blood Swain, Ingold finally had the ancient Upsala Temple, the pagan seat of all of northern Europe, burned to the ground and a Christian church built on the spot. Sweden was divided into six dioceses and several monasteries were founded and built. When the province of Dalia had been added to his kingdom in the west, King Ingold hosted King Magnus III Barefoot of Norway and King Eric I Evergood of Denmark for the first known summit of the three kings of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, which took place north of modern Gothenburg in 1101 (the next one was not until 1914). One of his daughters then married that King of Norway, later also King Nicholas of Denmark, and was called Margaret Colleen-of-Peace (Margareta Fredkulla). From that meeting a report noting that King Ingold had large buttocks has endured for some reason. He and his male descendants were consistently described as big, tall and grand men, and skeletons examined at Vreta centuries later confirm this. His somewhat mysterious wife was Queen Helen, and several of their grandchildren played important parts in subsequent history. A very old sarcophagus out in a field at Hånger in his favorite province marks the site of Ingold's original grave before his remains were moved to a completed Vreta Cloister. A monumental tomb for him was incorrectly placed at Varnhem, as ordered by King John III of Sweden in the 16th century, and is thus only a cenotaph.