Ingeborg Eriksdatter (Denmark)

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Ingeborg Eriksdatter , Ingeborg Ingebjørg Eriksdatter, (* around 1244 in Denmark, † 1287 in Bergen ) was Queen of Norway.

Life

Her parents were King Erik IV Plovpenning (1216–1250) of Denmark and his wife Queen Jutta (approx. 1223–1267).

She was the first queen to be crowned in Norway and the first to have her own fiefdom, which roughly corresponds to today's Østfold , for independent use.

She was about six years old when her father was murdered. Her mother then moved back to her parents in Saxony. There she grew up with her three sisters, but was also at times at the court of her uncle King Christoffer and Queen Margrete Sambiria , but at times also in a monastery. The four sisters inherited important lands after their father. Both the Norwegian and the Swedish sides considered the political and economic perspectives associated with the sisters. In 1260 the Swedish king Waldemar Birgersson married Ingeborg's sister Sophie . At the same time the plan matured that Ingeborg should marry the future king Magnus lagabætir .

First a Norwegian delegation sought the consent of their grandfather, Duke Albrecht von Sachsen , but was referred to the Danish relatives by him. In 1261 another Norwegian delegation, led by Bishop Håkon, came from Oslo to Horsens in Jutland, where Ingeborg was staying in a monastery. She was persuaded to travel to Norway. So she went to Norway without the consent of the Danish king or her guardian.

On July 28, 1261 she arrived in Tønsberg , and on September 14 the wedding was celebrated in Bergen with great festivities. The festival took place in three halls with 1,600 guests and is described in the sources as unusually magnificent. Three days later, both were crowned by Archbishop Einar Smjørbak Gunnarsson in Christ Church in Bergen .

The marriage resulted in four children, of which only the two youngest, Erik and Håkon, reached adulthood. Magnus tried several times in vain to have his wife's inheritance paid off in Denmark. But her cousin King Erik V. Klipping of Denmark refused the inheritance. Ingeborg and her sister Sophie won a judgment in Nyborg in 1284, but the judgment was not implemented.

After the death of King Magnus in 1280, she probably ruled together with the Imperial Council on behalf of her still underage son for seven years until her death. She died of unknown causes at the end of March 1287 without the inheritance dispute over her Danish claims having been resolved. Only their son King Erik managed to get the inheritance.

literature

Individual evidence

The article is taken from the Norsk biografisk leksikon . Other information is shown separately.

  1. The Norwegian Wikipedia names March 26th as the date, but without any evidence. In the Icelandic annals only the year is given.
predecessor Office Successor
Rikitsa Birgersdatter Queen of Norway
1263–1280
Margrete Aleksandersdotter