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Male King of Denmark Valdemar (Sejr) Valdemarsson II Click to view King of Denmark Valdemar (Sejr) Valdemarsson II in the family tree

Valdemar, known as Sejr, was born on June 28th, 1170 in Ribe, Denmark.1   Sejr's father was King of Denmark Valdemar (The Great) Knudsen I and his mother was Queen of Denmark Sofiya Vladimorovna.  His paternal grandparents were Prince Knut (Lavard) Eriksson of Denmark and Princess Ingeborg of Kiev; his maternal grandparents were Duke of Novgorod Vladimir Dmitrij Vsevolodich and Queen Richiza (Sventoslava) of Sweden. He had a brother and five sisters, named Knud, Sophie, Ingeborg, Helene, Helene and Richiza.  He was the third oldest of the seven children.

1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bevangenealogy&id=I34140

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