Ingeborg Magnusdotter of Sweden

Ingeborg Magnusdotter of Sweden

Princess Ingeborg Magnusdotter of Sweden, (b.1277, Sweden- d. 5 April or 15 August 1319), was a Danish queen consort, daughter of king Magnus III of Sweden and wife of king Eric IV of Denmark.

Biography

Ingeborg was born a daughter of King Magnus III of Sweden and Helwig of Holstein. In 1296, at the age of nineteen, she was married to King Eric Menved of Denmark in Helsingborg; in 1298, her brother king Birger of Sweden married her husband's sister Princess Martha of Denmark.

Queen Ingeborg had eight sons who died as children, as well as six miscarriages. She and her husband was the ally of her eldest brother king Birger and her husband's sister queen Martha of Sweden during the Swedish throne conflicts and received their son in 1306 after Håtuna games and later Birger and Martha temselwes as refugees after the Nyköping Banquet in 1318.

Shortly before her death, queen Ingeborg entered the convent of St. Clare in Roskilde; according to one legend forced by her husband, who blamed her for the death of one of their son's death, according to another because of the sorrow over the deaths of her brothers Erik Magnusson and Valdemar Magnusson.


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