Margarethe Fredkulla
Margarethe Fredkulla (* 1080s; † 1117 or 1130) was a medieval Swedish princess and from 1101 to 1103 Queen of Norway and from 1105 Queen of Denmark .
Life
Margarethe Fredkulla was a daughter of the Swedish King Inge the Elder and his wife Helena . In 1101 she was a young girl in her first marriage to the Norwegian King Magnus III. ( Magnus Barfot ) married to seal the peace that was made between her father and her bridegroom. Hence she was nicknamed Fredkulla (that is, "Virgin of Peace"). She brought larger Swedish areas, probably located in Västergötland , as a dowry into the marriage, but probably did not bear any offspring to her husband. After Magnus was killed in a raid in Northern Ireland in 1103, Margarethe quickly left her new home. This behavior alienated many Norwegians, and it was even claimed that they took the relics of the canonized Norwegian King Olav II Haraldsson with them.
Soon after, in 1104, Niels Svensson , an illegitimate son of King Sven Estridsson , ascended the Danish throne, whereupon Margarethe entered into her second marriage to Niels around 1105. She apparently exerted an unusually large political influence in Denmark, while her second husband is sometimes described as not politically active. On coins minted at the time, her name appears next to that of Niels, which was very rare in medieval Europe. The chroniclers praised her as a mild and peaceful woman who managed to settle disagreements among the nobles. She was also generous to the churches; so in 1114 the French theologian Thibaud d'Étampes sent her a letter of thanks for her generosity, which she had shown the Benedictine monastery of St-Étienne de Caen . According to Saxo Grammaticus , she died of dropsy. With Niels she had had two sons, one of whom, Inge, had already died as a child kicking a horse, while the second, Magnus Nilsson , died on June 4, 1134 in the battle of Fodevig .
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After Halvdan Koht : Norske Dronninger . Oslo 1926.
literature
- Hans Olrik: Margrethe Fredkulla . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 11 : Maar – Müllner . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1897, p. 114 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
- Margarethe 4) . In: Universal Lexicon of the Present and Past . 4., reworked. and greatly increased edition, Volume 10: Lack Farbe – Matelen , Eigenverlag, Altenburg 1860, p. 866 .
Web links
- Margrete Fredkulla . In: Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon
- Margrete Ingesdatter “Fredkolla” . In: Store norske leksikon
- Margareta Fredkulla
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| SURNAME | Margarethe Fredkulla |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian, then Danish queen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | between 1081 and 1090 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1117 or 1130 |