Margaret Sambiria

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Margaret Sambiria
Margaret of Denmark, founder picture in the monastery church in Rostock
Margarete's grave in the Doberan Minster

Margarete Sambiria , (also called Samboria or Margarete Spraenghest) (* around 1230; † December 1, 1282 in Rostock ). She was the daughter of Duke Sambor II of Pomerania and Mechthilds of Mecklenburg, the daughter of Heinrich Borwin II of Mecklenburg. Margarete became the royal consort and later regent of Denmark by marriage.

Life

During her youth there were armed conflicts between her father and his brother Swantopolk II. She received an education that was usually only imposed on men, which included in particular the craft of war including riding.

In 1248 she married Christoph I of Denmark at Glambek Castle on Fehmarn and was crowned with him in Lund in 1252 . Christoffer's feud began around 1254 with the Archbishop of Lund Jakob Erlandsen , Erik Abelsen and the Count of Holstein. Together with her father, she tried unsuccessfully in 1256 to settle the conflicting parties. When Christoffer died unexpectedly in Ribe at the end of May 1259 - it was said that he was murdered - she was the guardian of her son Erik Klipping until 1264 . In this capacity, she continued her late husband's feud. A Zeeland peasant army, with which they opposed Prince Jaromar II of Rügen , who was fighting on the side of the Archbishop shortly after Christoffer's death , was defeated on June 14, 1259 near Næstved . After a defeat in the Battle of Lohheide on June 29, 1261, she and her son were captured by the Holstein counts, she came under the mediation of Duke Albrecht von Braunschweig-Lüneburg and the Margraves Johann I and Otto III. from Brandenburg free again. She regained the initiative and continued to rule even after her son, who could not return to Denmark until 1264, had come of age.

She was nicknamed Black Margaret or Swarte Gret and Margarete the horse , because she is said to have “had powers like a horse”.

She later became reconciled with the clergy. According to the founding legend of the monastery Zum Heiligen Kreuz in Rostock, she brought a piece of the holy cross with her in 1270, which she had received from the Pope on a pilgrimage to Rome. This relic it is supposed to by her in Rostock founded Abbey of the Holy Cross have donated. She stayed there in her last years and died in 1282. She was buried in the Doberan Minster .

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Web links

Commons : Margaret Sambiria  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lars Franke: On the trail of old monastery legends: from Niederlausitz via Berlin to Rügen . 2013
personal data
SURNAME Margaret Sambiria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Black Margaret; Margaret of Pomerania; Margaret Samboria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Queen of Denmark
DATE OF BIRTH around 1230
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1282
Place of death Rostock