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Female Princess Sophie of Denmark Click to view Princess Sophie of Denmark in the family tree

Sophie was born in 1159 in Roskilde, Denmark.1   Sophie's father was King of Denmark Valdemar (The Great) Knudsen I and her mother was Queen of Denmark Sofiya Vladimorovna.  Her paternal grandparents were Prince Knut (Lavard) Eriksson of Denmark and Princess Ingeborg of Kiev; her maternal grandparents were Duke of Novgorod Vladimir Dmitrij Vsevolodich and Queen Richiza (Sventoslava) of Sweden. She had two brothers and four sisters, named Knud, Sejr, Ingeborg, Helene, Helene and Richiza.  She was the 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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