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The House of Sverker reigned Sweden intermittently between 1130 and 1222.

As usual with hereditary rulers, after the rival dynasty had got the final upper hand, this dynasty's descendants however regarded themselves as truer heirs of the kingdom. In 15th century, when Sweden elected a non-royally-descended king Charles VIII of Sweden (who attempted to fabricate his own pedigree to show him being descended from the Eric dynasty), the then Sverker heirs (chiefly, the Oxenstierna) attempted to get one of their own sons to elected in that place.

Sometimes, current monarchs of Sweden placated descendants of sverker dynasty with honours and even semi-independent fiefs, such as Magnus IV of Sweden giving Blekinge and Duchy of Halland to two rival heirs of Sverker dynasty in mid-1300s

Gustav I of Sweden (and his descendants of course) descended himself from Sverker dynasty through a cadet lineage, as did a number of Sweden's 15th-century Regents.

• legendarily: Birger jarl, whose mother Ingrid Ylva's pedigree was later concocted in a way that she were daughter of a younger son of king Sverker I of Sweden (though later research has shown that contemporary sources do not know such a person as postulated to be Sune Sik Sverkerson)

• Knut Jonsson of Aspenäs, Lord High Justiciar of Sweden, sometime Regent during the minority of Magnus IV of Sweden

• legendarily: king Albert of Sweden called the Mecklenburger, according to family myths, descendant of Christina, an alleged daughter of Sverker II of Sweden

• legendarily: king Eric XIII of Sweden, same mythical descent as Albert's

• Regents Bengt Jönsson (Oxenstierna), Lord of Ekolsund and Salsta, and Nils Jönsson (Oxenstierna), brothers, sons of Märta Finvidsdotter of Frössvik, heiress of Ekolsund

• Regent, Archbishop Jöns Bengtsson (Oxenstierna)

• Regent Sten Sture the Elder

• Regent Svante Nilsson, Lord of Ekesjö

• Regent-designate Lord Eric Trolle

• Regent Sten Sture the Younger

• Regent Gustav Vasa, then king Gustav I

When John I of Sweden died, and was replaced by the rival Eric XI, his heir was his sister:

• Helena of Sweden (d in 1240s) and her husband Sune Folkason of Bjellbo

• Catherine of Ymseborg (d 1252) and her husband Eric XI

• sister: Benedikte of Ymseborg (dc 1265) and her husband Svantepolk Knutsson

• Knut of Viby Svantepolksson (dc 1304)

• sister: Ingeborg of Viby (dc 1341) and her second husband Tune of Vinga

• Knut Jonsson of Aspenäs (dc 1346)

• Birger Knutsson of Aspenäs (dc 1351)

• next brother: Magnus Knutsson of Aspenäs (dc 1365)

• Karin Magnusdotter of Ekolsund (dc 1394) and her husband Finvid Finvidsson of Frössvik

• Märta Finvidsdotter of Frössvik (dc 1405) and her husband Jöns Bengtsson of Salsta (d bef 1399)

• Nils Jönsson (Oxenstierna) (dc 1453), Lord of Ängsö, Frössvik and Djursholm, who in 1448 acted as Regent of Sweden

• Erik Nilsson of Djursholm (dc 1470)

• sister: Kerstin Nilsdotter of Engsoe and her husband Nils Fadersson of Hjulsta (dc 1495)

• Knut Nilsson of Hjulsta (dc 1487)

• brother: Fader Nilsson of Hjulsta (dc 1518)

• Görvel Fadersdotter of Hjulsta, Giske etc (d 1605) and her husbands Peder Nilsson Grip, Trued Ulfstand and Lage Brahe

• Görvel's cousin's grandson Josse Gyllenhorn (1575-1631), heir during 1605-31

• Anna Gyllenhorn (d 1668), heiress 1631-68, and her husband Knut Uggla (d 1634)

• niece: baroness Sigrid Gyllenstierna (1639-1700) and her second husband (since 1674) count Jakob Johan Hastfer (1647-95)

• baron Johan Casimir Fleming (1660-1714)

• baron Axel Johan Fleming (1696-1752)

• sister: baroness Sigrid Fleming 1698-1782 and her second husband baron Göran Fleming (1687-1754)

• baron Fredrik Fleming (1735-1800)

• baron Gustaf Adolf Fleming (1781-1848)

• sister: baroness Sigrid Margareta Charlotta Fleming, countess Trolle-Wachtmeister of Trolle-Ljungby (1788-1861) and her husband count Hans Gabriel Trolle-Wachtmeister (1782-1871)

• cousin's grandson: count Louis Wrede (1816-1901)

• nephew: baron Christian Barnekow (1837-1916)

• nephew: baron Folke Barnekow (1885-1935)

• baron Henrik Barnekow (1910-92)

• baron Johan Barnekow (1945-97)

• baron Carl-Johan Barnekow (born 1985)

• sources: Gillingstam genealogical tables