Ulvhild HÃ¥kansdotter

Ulvhild Håkonsdatter (* 1095/1100, † 1148 ) was twice in three marriages Queen of Sweden and one from Denmark.

Life

About Ulvhild youth and the first marriage, there are no reliable sources. She was probably a daughter of the Norwegian magnates Hakon Finnson - a descendant of the great Norwegian skald Eyvindr Skáldaspillir (c. 920, † 990 ) from the family Thjotta. Order in 1116 she married the Swedish king Inge the Younger. To 1123 Inge, the legend died after poisoned by Ulvhild.

After his death she moved to Denmark and married the widowed king Niels Svensson. This marriage remained childless. According to Saxo Grammaticus kidnapped Sverker I of Sweden and they made ​​her his wife. As a wedding present, they should have gotten a piece of land that she and Sverker 1143 for the construction of the first Cistercian monastery in Sweden, Alvastra, donated. After her death in 1148 she was buried there. Sverke married Rikissa of Poland, who had been as Queen of Sweden as wife of Ulvhild stepson from her second marriage, Magnus Nilsson, already Ulvhild predecessor. Ulvhild daughter Helena married Rikissas son.

Progeny

From the marriage with Sverker I.:

• Charles VII Sverkersson († assassinated April 12, 1167 ), King of Sweden ( 1161-1167 ) ∞ 1163 Stigsdotter Christine, daughter of Stig Hvitaledhr and Margaret Princess of Denmark His son was Sverker Karlsson II, King of Sweden (1196 - 1208)

• His daughter Ingrid Ylva ∞ 1195 Magnus Minnesköld, was about her son Birger Jarl to the ancestress of the kings of Sweden from 1250 to 1364, the Kings of Norway ( 1380-1387 ) and King of Denmark ( 1376-1387 ) from the House of Folkunger.