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Family Subtree Diagram : Descendants of Ragnhild Magnusdatter (~1093)

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Valdemar Birgersson (1239 – 1302), King of Sweden 1250 – 1275/1288/1302, was the son of princess Ingeborg Eriksdotter of Sweden and Birger Jarl, Earl Birger Magnusson of Bjälbo, who more or less ruled Sweden from 1248 under king Eric Ericsson the Lame his brother in law. When king Eric XI died in 1250, Valdemar was elected king, while Birger Jarl (perhaps) was on crusade in Finland.

Even after the coming of age of Valdemar in 1257 his father Jarl Birger held a grip over the country. After Birger's death in 1266 Valdemar came into conflict with his younger brother Jarl or Duke Magnus, who wanted the throne for himself.

Valdemar had a relationship with his Queen's sister Jutta (both of them princesses of Denmark) and had to go to Rome in order to get the Pope's forgiveness. In 1288 he was imprisoned by his brother Magnus, (later Magnus I of Sweden) who had usurped his throne, being elected king in 1275.

Valdemar was married four times and left several children by Queen Sophia (dead 1286).
 ~1210 - 1266 Jarl of Bjälbo Birger Magnusson 56 56 Birger jarl
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Birger Jarl or Earl Birger, (1210 – 1266), Swedish statesman, full name Birger Magnusson of Bjälbo, son of Magnus Minnesköld of Bjälbo and Ingrid Ylva, nephew to the Earl Birger Brosa, and the most famous member of the ancient noble family of the Folkung or Folkungaätten, which had so much to say for itself in early Swedish history. In 1240, Birger organized a military campaign against Novgorod and was defeated by Alexander Nevsky during the Neva Battle. Birger was elevated to the position of Jarl (directly translated: Earl, but the position was unique, not similar as earls in England) by King Erik Eriksson in 1248 and had earlier married the king's sister Ingeborg Eriksdotter.

On Erik's death in 1250 Birger's son Valdemar was elected king while his father acted as regent. During the sixteen years of his sway Sweden advanced greatly in fame and prosperity. In 1249 he led an expedition to Finland, subjugated the Tavastians and built the fortress of Tavastehus, thus, laying the foundations of Sweden's overseas empire. He also built Stockholm in 1252, and enriched it by making it the chief mart for the trade of Lübeck, with which city he concluded a commercial treaty. As a lawgiver Birger laboured strenuously in the interests of civilization.

Ingeborg died in 1254 and in 1261 he married the widow of King Abel of Denmark, the queen dowager Mechtild of Holstein. There is a fine statue of the great earl in the Riddarholm church at Stockholm, erected by Fogelberg at the expense of the Over-Governor of Stockholm in 1884. He is also the central figure of Fr. Hedberg's drama Bröllopet på Ulfåsa (1865).
 1238 Bernhard Von Mecklenburg 1180 - 1216 King of Sweden Erik X Knutsson 36 36 Erik X ( c 1180 – 1216), Erik Knutsson (Eric son of Canute) was the King of Sweden between 1208 and 1216. He was the son of Knut Eriksson and his queen, whose name is unknown, but who very probably was a high-born Swedish noblewoman. He was born around 1280 in Eriksberg royal manor.

When his father, King Canute I, died peacefully in 1295, all his sons were only children. Eric apparently was not the eldest of them. Due to the influence of the mighty second-of-the-realm, Jarl Birger Brosa, Sverker II, the head of the rival dynasty was chosen as King of Sweden, over the underaged boys.

King Canute's sons continued to live in the Swedish royal court, until 1203, when his brothers and family brought forward claims to the thorone, and Sverker did not acquiesce, at which point Eric and his brothers escaped to Norway. In 1205, the brothers returned to Sweden with Norwegian support, but lost the battle of Älgarås, where three of Eric's brothers were killed.

In 1208 Eric returned to Sweden with Norwegian troops and won Sverker in the battle of Lena. Eric became thus chosen the king of Sweden.

Sverker attempted to reconquer the throne, but was won and killed in battle of Gestilren in 1210. The banner under which King Eric's troops fought, was preserved by his kinsman Justiciar Eskil Magnuson of Bjelbo clan in Skara, who in 1219 gave it as honorary to the visiting Icelandic justiciar Snorre Sturlasson.

At that time, king Eric X married princess Richeza of Denmark, daughter of the late Valdemar I of Denmark, and sister of the then reigning Valdemar II the Victorious. This was to make up relations with Denmark, which had traditionally supported the Sverker dynasty, against the Norwegian-supported dynasty of Eric.

Eric X was the first Swedish king who was crowned.

He died suddenly in fever in 1216 in the castle of Näs on the island of Visingsö. He was buried in the Varnhem Abbey Church.

His marriage produced several daughters, at least three and possibly as many as five, and one and only son, born posthumously, the future Eric XI of Sweden. Daughters: Helena?, Sophia?, Marianna?,

Märta of Sweden, married with Marshal Nils Sixtensson (Sparre)
Ingeborg of Sweden, possibly the youngest daughter.
Some later pretensions claim that one of his daughters would have been Marianna, who married a duke of Pomerania, becoming an ancestress of the House of Mecklenburg.
 ~1150 - 1196 King of Sweden Knut I Eriksson 46 46 Canute I Eriksson or Knut Eriksson in Swedish was king of Sweden from 1167 to 1195. He was a son of king Eric the Saint.

He built a castle on the island of Stockholm in 1187, one of many such fortifications made necessary by heathen incursions from the Baltic lands.
 1120 - 1160 King of Sweden Eric IX "the Saint" Jedvardsson 40 40 Eric IX of Sweden (or Erik the Lawgiver or Eric the Saint. In Swedish he is simply known as Erik den helige which roughly equals Saint Eric) (c. 1120 – 1160) was a Swedish king between 1150 and 1160. Eric was an Upland lord, son of a lord Jedvard (Edward), due to which contemporary sources call him also Eric Jedvardson. He was a rival king, from 1150, to Sverker the Elder who had ascended the throne c 1130 and was murdered 1156, after which Eric was recognized in most or all provinces. Eric's reign ended when he was murdered in Uppsala. He's said to have been murdered by Emund Ulvbane, an assassin who was hired by people working for the Sverker dynasty, in order for them to regain the control of the kingdom, or alternatively by Magnus Henriksson, another claimant, who is said in some sources to have succeeded him briefly as king. People from Svealand recognized a miracle after Erik's death, since a fountain sprang from the earth where the king's head fell after being chopped off.

He would later be made a (regionally recognized) saint whose feast day is 18 May. The relic casket of Eric is on display in Uppsala cathedral (Uppsala domkyrka). The casket contains bones of a male, with traces of injury to the neck. Eric is the patron saint of Stockholm and depicted in the city's coat of arms. He had a nationalistic church policy. Sweden honored him as national (patron) saint, although Pope Alexander III forbade his cult 1172, when his son, king Knut Ericsson quarreled with the Swedish and Roman church. It was an important asset to Eric's family to have a saint in the ancestry. The pope used a pretext that Eric was a drunk who died as result of fight in a group of drunks.

Around 1155, he apparently made an expedition to Southwestern Finland, with an English-born cleric Henry (who became Finnish regional saint St Henry the Bishop. Later, this small and probably inconclusive expedition has been labeled as a crusade and as the start of the Swedish dominion of Finland, although history research has brought evidence that no permanent dominion or administration was built in Finland at that time.

In order to strengthen his position as king, Eric succeeded to marry Christina Bjornsdatter, a Danish noblewoman, a granddaughter of king Inge I of Sweden. Christina's father was the Danish royal son Bjorn Ironside(Björn Järnsida) and her mother was Catherine of Sweden, youngest daughter of King Inge.
 ~1130 Christina Björnsdatter ~1100 Princess of Sweden Katarina Ingesdatter 1182 - 1220 Princess of Denmark Richiza Valdemarsdatter 38 38 ~1212 - 1246 Princess of Sweden Märta Eriksdotter 34 34 ~1210 - 1250 King of Sweden Eric XI Ericsson 40 40 Eric XI of Sweden
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Eric XI Ericsson (1216 – February 2, 1250) den läspe och halte: "the stuttering and lame," was king of Sweden 1222 – 1229 and 1234 – 1250. He was the son of king Erik X of Sweden and Richeza of Denmark.

According to the very partial chronicle Erikskrönikan written in the early 1320s, he is said to have been partly lame. Eric was born posthumously and in the meantime the fifteen-year-old John I of Sweden from the rival house of Sverker had been hailed king by the Swedish aristocracy (against the will of the Pope, who wanted Eric as king).

When John I died in 1222, the five-year-old Eric was hailed King, with a distant male cousin, who was adult, first as leader of the regency council and then as co-King Canute II of Sweden. In 1229, Canute exiled Eric to Denmark and ruled alone.

After Canute's death in 1234, Eric returned and ruled until his own death in 1250. He was buried in the monastery of Varnhem in Westrogothia. Eric was married with Queen Catherine, daughter of Jarl Sune of Bjälbo and a heiress of the House of Sverker. Commonly, sources say that Eric was childless, but some sources claim that he had a couple of baby daughters when died.

In 1236 King Eric XI's (apparently youngest) sister Ingeborg had been married to Birger Magnusson (this was Birger's first marriage) - he was son of a female heiress of Sverker dynasty. Their underaged eldest son Valdemar was elected king 1250 to succeed Eric, possibly by-passing the sons (if such existed) of Ingeborg's elder sisters. Birger became the Regent.
 ~1220 - 1252 Catherine of Bjälbo 32 32 1204 - 1277 Nicholas Von Mecklenburg 73 73 ~1190 - 1250 Ingrid Ylva Sunnesdotter 60 60 ~1180 - 1228 Jarl of Bjälbo Magnus Minnesköld Birgersson 48 48 1232 Margarethe Von Mecklenburg 1247 Ingeborg Birgersdotter ~1214 - 1277 Jutta Von Anhalt 63 63 ~1132 Ulfhild Bjørnsdatter ~1110 King of Denmark Bjørn Järnsida Haraldsson ~1148 Katarina Eriksdotter ~1140 Niels Blaka ~1164 Christian (Kristin) Nilsdotter ~1160 - 1196 Cecilia Blanka Johansdotter 36 36 1178 Sigrid Knutsdotter ~1166 - 1208 Jarl of Bjälbo Knut Folkungaatten Birgersson 42 42 ~1148 - 1194 Jarl of Uppsala Birger Brosa Bengtsson 46 46 ~1146 Brigida Haraldsdatter ~1150 - 1220 Earl of Estonia Karl "Dove" Bengtsson 70 70 ~1152 - 1208 Magnus Bengtsson 56 56 ~1155 Ingrid Ylva ~1172 Ingrid Ylva Birgersdatter ~1164 - 1210 Jarl of Uppsala Folke Birgersson 46 46 ~1170 Ulfhild ~1083 - 1135 King of Denmark Harald Kesja Eriksson 52 52 Harald Kesja
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Harald Kesja, Harald the Spear, (1080-1135) was the son of Eric I of Denmark. He was married to Ragnhild Magnusdotter, the daughter of king Magnus III of Norway of Norway. Eric appointed Harald the ruler of Denmark in 1103, when he went to Jerusalem, but Harald had to step back because of his uncle Nicholas of Denmark, who was elected king in 1104.

Harald was courageous, but violent, cruel and debauched. Among his 15 sons, only four were born in wedlock. Harald plundered far and wide from his stronghold Haraldsborg at Roskilde. In 1132, he allied with his half-brother Eric Emune in order to avenge his third brother Canute Lavard, but he later turned to the murderer Magnus Nilsson and fought with him at the Battle of Fotevik in Skåne, 1134. He fled after the defeat but he was taken captive near Vejle on Jutland and decapitated together with six of his sons.

One of his sons, Björn Ironside Haraldsson married Katarina Ingesdotter the daughter of the Swedish king Inge I. Björn was the father of Christina Bjornsdatter, a Swedish queen.
 ~1135 - ~1195 King of Denmark Bjørn Bjørnsson 60 60 1170 - 1225 King of Bornhølm Harold I "The White" Bjørnsson 54 54 1192 - 1251 King of Bornhølm Harold II 59 59 1192 Sarah Haroldsdatter 1210 - 1280 King of Bornhølm Harold III "The Great" 70 70 1233 - 1291 King of Bornhølm Frederick I "The Magnanimous" 58 58 1217 - 1301 Olivia Haroldsdatter 84 84 1213 - 1285 Baron Walpole Humphrey Harding Haroldsson 72 72 1234 - 1280 Adelheid Walpole 46 46 1254 - 1313 Helga Walpole 59 59 1238 Rikitsa Birgersdóttir 1234 - 1291 Heinrich Von Mecklenburg 57 57 1234 - 1288 Richiza Birgersdotter 54 54 ~1218 Karl Magnusson ~1214 - 1254 Ingeborg Eriksdottir 40 40 1228 Erik Birgersson 1230 Gregor Birgersson ~1212 Bengt Magnusson 1245 Katarina Birgersdotter 1236 - 1285 King of Sweden Magnus I Birgersson 49 49 Magnus I of Sweden
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Magnus I of Sweden (1240 – 1290), often called Ladulås: Barnlock, was king of Sweden from 1275/1280 until his death in 1290. Later historians ascribe his epithet to a decree of 1279 freeing the Yeomanry from the duty to provide sustenance for travelling Nobles and Bishops ("Peasants! Lock your barns!"), but probably its simply a corruption of Ladislaus, which possibly was his second name.

With the Alsnö stadga (Decree of Alsnö) about 1279, Magnus gave anyone who undertook to provide the Crown with a mounted warrior (knight) and a warhorse, the freedom from certain taxes (such a freedom was called frälse in Swedish. This is often (mistakenly) said to be the formal foundation of the Swedish nobility, though it certainly was a step in the evolution towards hereditary class of nobles enjoying privileges).

Second son of Birger Jarl (Earl Birger Magnusson) and Ingeborg Eriksdotter of Sweden, herself the youngest sister of childless Eric XI of Sweden and youngest daughter of Eric X of Sweden and Richeza of Denmark. His father designated Magnus as his successor in powers of the earl of the realm, henceforward titled Duke. The elder brother, Valdemar I of Sweden having become the king in succession of their maternal uncle.

In 1275, Magnus started a rebellion against his brother with Danish help, and ousted him from the throne. Instead, Magnus was elected King at Mora. Magnus Ladulås married 1276 as his second wife Helvig of Holstein, daughter of Gerhard I of Holstein (through her mother Elisabeth of Mecklenburg, she was descendant of Christina, the putative daughter of Sverker II of Sweden, and of Ulvhild of Saxony, a descendant of Astrid Olofsdotter, queen of Norway and daughter of Olof I of Sweden). Helvig later acted as Queen Regent (probably 1290-1302 and) 1320-1327. A papal annullment of Magnus' first marriage and a dispensation for his second (necessary because of consanguinuity) were issued ten years later, in 1286.

Children of his second marriage to Helvig of Holstein
Ingeborg Magnusdotter of Sweden, born abt. 1279. Married King Eric VI of Denmark, Erik Menved.
Birger Magnusson, born abt. 1280, king of Sweden.
Eric Magnusson of Sweden, Duke of Södermanland in 1302, born abt. 1282. Died of starvation 1318 at Nyköpingshus castle while imprisoned by his brother King Birger.
Valdemar Magnusson, Duke of Finland in 1302 and Öland 1310. Died of starvation 1318 at Nyköpingshus castle while imprisoned by his brother King Birger.
Rikissa Magnusdotter, abbess of the convent of Sta Clara at Stockholm. Died after 1347.
 1249 Christina Birgersdotter 1254 Bengt Birgersson ~1214 Eskil Magnusson 1240 - 1287 Hedwig Von Mecklenburg 47 47 1242 Jutta Von Mecklenburg ~1204 Helene Eriksdottir 1236 - 1283 Johann Von Mecklenburg 47 47 ~1214 Sophia Eriksdottir ~1208 Marianna Eriksdottir ~1216 Valemar Eriksson ~1216 Ingrid Magnusdotter 1244 Henningus Von Mecklenburg ~1172 - 1226 Heinrich Von Mecklenburg 54 54 1182 - 1248 Kristina Knutsdotter 66 66 1211 - 1264 Johann Von Mecklenburg 53 53 1206 Mechtilde Von Mecklenburg 1208 Margarethe Von Mecklenburg 1202 Heinrich Von Mecklenburg 1211 - 1267 Luitgard Von Henneberg 56 56 1230 - 1302 Heinrich Von Mecklenburg 72 72 1231 - 1280 Elizabeth Von Mecklenburg 49 49 1233 Albrecht Von Mecklenburg 1234 - 1274 Nicholas Von Mecklenburg 40 40 1236 Johann Von Mecklenburg 1238 Poppo Von Mecklenburg 1240 Hermann Von Mecklenburg 1242 Margarete Von Mecklenburg ~1238 - 1317 Anastasia Von Stettin 79 79 ~1245 Katarina Eriksdotter 1249 - 1302 Ingeborg Eriksdotter 53 53 ~1210 - 1248 Duke of Pomerania Barnim I Von Stettin 38 38 ~1230 - 1278 Duke of Pomerania Bogislaw von Stettin 48 48 1178 Sigrid Knutsdotter ~1238 - 1317 Anastasia Von Stettin 79 79 ~1214 - 1254 Ingeborg Eriksdottir 40 40 1217 - 1301 Olivia Haroldsdatter 84 84 Generated by GenoPro®. Click here for details.