Ingebjørg Eriksdatter (Norway)

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Ingebjørg Eriksdatter ( Ingeborg Eriksdotter ) (* 1297 , † around 1357) was a Norwegian princess.

Her parents were King Erik II and his wife Isabella Bruce . In 1300 she was betrothed to Jarl Jón Magnusson of the Orkneys. He probably died before the marriage contract between her uncle King Håkon and Duke Erik Magnusson on March 22, 1310 about his marriage to Ingebjørg Håkonsdatter in Oslo. Because at the same time the marriage contract between Ingebjørg Eriksdatter and Duke Waldemar Magnusson of Finland was signed, whom she married on September 13, 1312 in Oslo. The couple stayed in Norway until September 1313.

The dukes Waldemar and Erik died in the Nyköpinghus prison. The widow Ingebjørg is then mentioned in the contract of 1318 with Christoph II , the brother of the Danish king Erik menved . In the last years of her life she called herself Duchess of Öland, who, along with Stockholm and Finland, fell to Waldemar when the empire was divided in 1315.

The son Erik (* 1316) emerged from his marriage to Waldemar, who is not mentioned anywhere else and who probably died early. Possibly she had more children, because in letters of 1344 and 1345 there is talk of her inheritance after her children ("liberi", "filii").

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Icelandic Gottskalk's annals for the year 1297.
  2. ↑ Icelandic Annales Vetustissimi, Henrik Høyers Annaler and Flatø-Annaler to the year 1300.
  3. ↑ The Icelandic Skálholts Annaler report the event for 1311, the Gottskalk Annaler for 1313.
  4. ↑ Flatø-Annaler the year 1316th

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personal data
SURNAME Ingebjørg Eriksdatter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ingeborg Eriksdotter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian princess, Finnish duchess
DATE OF BIRTH 1297
DATE OF DEATH around 1357