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Ingebjørg Håkonsdatter (Swedish: Ingeborg Håkonsdotter ) (* 1301, † June 17, 1361 ) was a Swedish Duchess.
Her parents were King Håkon V. Magnusson and his wife Eufemia. She was the only legitimate child Håkons. 1302 issued her father a new Act of Succession. After her son moved to third place and even on to the seventh place in the succession. So she was born with a pawn of the Father's policy.
Håkon V. was involved in the Nordic power struggle in which the dispute over the power in Sweden between King Birger and his two brothers particularly stood out. The engagements Ingebjørgs changed depending on the alliances of the Father. As a child she was both the Swedish duke Erik Magnusson and the son of King Birger Magnus Birgersson engaged. When King Håkon then preferred an alliance with the Swedish dukes, she was then still married on September 29th 1312 in Oslo to Erik. Your cousin Ingebjørg Eriksdatter was simultaneously married to his brother Waldemar Magnusson. His second wife married in June 1327 the Danish knights and later Duke of Halland and Samsø Knut Porse.
With Duke Erik she got in 1316 the son of Magnus. A year later she got the daughter Euphemia. After King Birger had vacated his brothers in the winter 1317/1318 out of the way, the collection figure widow of the followers of the Duke was. King Birger had to flee the country, and her son Magnus was elected on July 8, 1319 to the Swedish king, two months after he had inherited the Norwegian crown after his grandfather.
As the mother of the king and on the basis of its own succession to the throne, she got a great social position in both countries, when they had no place in the official government. After the death of Duke Erik's but she tried to take in her son's name to a certain extent influence on politics in the sense of Duke Erik's. They tried above all to win Skåne. Their aggressive policy towards Denmark was fully in line with the Norwegian foreign policy in the second half of the 13th century. This included the alliance with Duke Henry of Mecklenburg against Denmark, which was by the marriage contract of 1321 between her daughter Euphemia and Albrecht, the son of the Duke, sealed.
But when Knut Porse arbitrarily invaded by German mercenaries in Skåne, recognized the leaders in Norway and Sweden soon that they abhandenkam by the actions of the Duchess and Knut Porses political control. Therefore, they used a Regent and so disempowered the Duchess. This happened in Sweden in 1322 and Norway in 1323. Sweden then entered into peace with Denmark. She married Knut Porse 1327, the Duke had become the Danish landscapes South Halland and Samsø. Although Knut had immediately before the wedding concluded with the leading people of Norway a comparison, he was immediately accused that he was intriguing against Norway and was also referred to as an enemy of Sweden. The marriage was considered a safety hazard and political Gutsbesitzungen were seized in both countries. So they withdrew from the Norwegian and Swedish politics. The business of government in Norway were perceived by Erling Vidkunnsson entitled " The King's Steward in Norway ".
After the death of her second husband Knut in 1330 she tried to defend her big Gutsbesitzungen in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The defense of the great fiefs, the Knut Porse had left her two sons and Knut Håkon, involved them in the internal conflicts of Denmark. When the Swedish government Skåne bought for a large sum, parts of the Danish possessions Ingebjørgs were pledged for the sum. But they got back their personal Swedish and Norwegian possessions.
Their children, whom she had with Knut, both died in 1350. Though they had already in 1344 lost control of Samsø and South Halland, she led her Danish title of duke to 1352nd
Footnotes
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