Sverre Magnus is the third in line to take over as the Monarch of Norway after his father Crown Prince Haakon Magnus and his sister Ingrid Alexandra.

Sverre Sigurdsson (1150 - 1202) was a son of Sigurd Munn. In 1176 he left the Faroe Islands and arrived in Norway, and in 1117 he became the king of the Birchlegs (Norse: birkibeinn, originally: "a person who has clothed his/her legs with birch bark"). After his victory at the Battle of Fimreite and the death of his opponent king Magnus Erlingsson in 1184 , Sverre became absolute ruler of Norway. There were often riots in the eastern part of Norway. The riots of the members of the Bishop's party were a reaction against Sverre Sigurdsson's national church policy. In Norse a member of the Bishop's Party were called bagall, a noun derivated from the Latin word baculus: the stave of a Roman Catholic bishop. The Bishop's Party was headed by bishop Nikolas. Sverre was excommunicated by the pope, and an interdict was issued against Norway. Sverre's opposition against the Roman Catholic church is mentioned in the second stanza of the national anthem of Norway. Sverre has his own Saga, which is called the Saga of Sverre.

Seven Norwegian Kings have been named Magnus.

The names of Sverre and Magnus are originally nicknames.

The Norse origin of Sverre is Sverrir. It is related to the Norse verb sverra: whir, US: whirr. In Norwegian the verb svirre is the description of the vibrating sound of (a shower of) arrows or spears: pilene og spydene svirrer i lufta. Sverre was used a nickname in Iceland.

Sverre I Sigurdsson and his grandson Sverre Håkonsson, who never become king of Norway, used the name Sverre. King Håkon IV Håkonsson's (1217 - 1263) son Håkon Håkonsson (1234 - 1257: co-regent with his father 1240 - 1257) was married to Rikissa Birgersdotter, the daughter of Birger Jarl in Sweden, in 1251. They had a son named Sverre Magnus, who died in 1261.

Magnus was taken from the Charlemagne's / Charles the Great's Latin name Carolus Magnus. The last part Magnus was understood as an unique Christian name.

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