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Male King Knud of Denmark VI Click to view King Knud of Denmark VI in the family tree

Knud was born in 1163 in Roskilde, Denmark.1   Knud'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 Sejr, Sophie, Ingeborg, Helene, Helene and Richiza.  He was the second 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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