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As usual in medieval succession rivalries, the final outcome combined the blood of rival lines, as in 1250 Valdemar of the Folkung s (then a minor, his father Birger Jarl acting as Regent) ascended the throne, having inherited the Eric dynasty claim from Valdemar's mother (who was sister of Eric XI Of Sweden , the last Eric-dynast) and some of the Sverker dynasty claim from Birger's mother (who was daughter of a younger son of Sverker I).