The Baglers were a faction of Norwegian aristocrats, merchants, and clergymen which existed from 1196 to 1217 during the Norwegian Civil War. They were formed in Skane, Denmark in 1196, and they supported Inge Magnusson against King Sverre Sigurdsson. They fought against the Birkebeiners for control of the country, and, in 1209, the Bagler Philip Simonsson and the Birkebeiner Inge Bardsson partitioned Norway. Both of them died in 1217, and the Birkebeiner Haakon IV of Norway ascended the throne; Haakon ended the civil wars in 1240.