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Ingegerd Birgersdotter

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The sources for Ingegerd's history are limited to a few references in Norse sources. The lack of chronological precision has caused an alternative interpretation of the order of Sverker II's marriages. Thus Ingegerd might have been the first queen in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. After her
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escaped. These bloody events seem to have set Ingegerd's relatives on Eric's side, as seen from events in the next years. Whatever attempts Ingegerd may have done to act as mediator between the king and her family failed to reconcile them. Sverker and Eric met at the
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The later life of queen Ingegerd is not known, nor is the year of her death. In 1216, her son Johan was made king, but the sources do not mention anything about his mother. Historians suggest that she spent her later life with her brother Magnus, in
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Jarlens sekel - En berättelse om 1200-talets Sverige. (The century of the jarl en story from 13th century Sweden) Ordfront, Stockholm, 2002,
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fled to Norway in 1204, returning in the next year with Norwegian backing. Three of the sons were killed at the
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of Norway and had, in her first marriage, herself been the Queen of Sweden in 1160–1161.
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In c. 1200, she was married to King Sverker after the death of his first consort
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Adolf Schück, "Till Sverker d.y.:s historia, 1. Sverkers familjeförhållanden",
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as the heir and head of the Bjälbo clan through her, with the title
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Vol. IV. Stockholm: Hörbergska Boktryckeriet, 1852, p. 235-8.
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was killed on Eric's side, possibly together with her uncle
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Ingegerd was born into one of Sweden's most powerful
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Index

Queen consort of Sweden
Sverker II of Sweden
Issue
John I of Sweden
Birger Brosa
Brigida Haraldsdotter
Queen of Sweden
Sverker II
noble
Bjälbo family
Birger Brosa
Queen Dowager
Brigida Haraldsdotter
Harald Gille
Benedicta
Johan
jarl
Canute I
Battle of Ă„lgarĂĄs
Eric
Battle of Lena
Knut Jarl
Magnus Minniskiöld
Battle of Gestilren
Scania
Benedicta Ebbesdotter of Hvide
Andreas Sunesen
Lund
John I of Sweden

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