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Olaf I (Danish: Oluf; c. 1050 – 18 August 1095), nicknamed Olaf Hunger, was king of Denmark from 1086 to 1095, following the death of his brother Canute IV the Holy. He was a son of king Sweyn II Estridsson , and the third of Sweyn's sons to rule.
- Eric I of Denmark
Eric I [1] ( c. 1060 – 10 July 1103), also known as Eric the...
- Olaf II
Olaf II of Denmark (December 1370 – 3 August 1387) was King...
- Eric I of Denmark
Olaf I de Dinamarca (danés Oluf 1. Hunger) (1052-18 de agosto de 1095). Rey de Dinamarca (1086-1095), sucediendo a su hermano Canuto el Santo. Fue el tercer hijo del rey Svend II. Olaf I se casó con Ingegerd Haraldsdatter, princesa de Noruega. Olaf I no tuvo hijos, por ello cuando muere en 1095 es sucedido por su hermano Erico I.
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Margaret was born in March 1353 as the sixth and youngest child of King Valdemar IV and Queen Helvig of Denmark. She was born in the prison of Søborg Castle, where her father had already confined her mother. She was baptised in Roskilde and in 1359, at the age of six, engaged to the 18-year-old King Haakon VI, the youngest son of the Swedish-Norweg...
Her first act after her father's death in 1375 was to procure the election of her infant son Olaf as king of Denmark, despite the claims of her elder sister Ingeborg's husband Duke Henry III of Mecklenburg and their son Albert. Margaret insisted that Olaf be proclaimed rightful heir of Sweden, among his other titles. He was too young to rule in his...
In 1412, Margaret tried to recover Schleswig, and thus entered a war with Holstein. Before that she had managed the recovery of Finland and Gotland. While winning the war, Margaret died suddenly on board her ship in FlensburgHarbor. In October 1412, she set sail from Seeland in her ship. She attended several debates, which reportedly had brought ma...
She has been described as a beautiful woman with dark hair, dark eyes, an intimidating gaze and the aura of absolute authority. She was highly energetic well into her old age, autocratic and indomitable, at the same time also described as wise, just, tactful, and kind.Hudson Strode writes "Margaret, who, like St. Bridget, possessed the masculine qu...
In Denmark Margaret was called "sovereign lady and lord and guardian of the entire kingdom of Denmark" (Norway and Sweden later bestowed on her similar titles). This special, double-gendered title bestowed upon the holder the power and authority of a man (lord), of a woman (sovereign lady) and of the gender-neutral guardian. Later, when Erik was el...
E.C. Ottewrites in 1874, that "[i]f Margaret could have been certain of being followed on the throne by rulers as able and just as she had been, this Act of the Union of Calmar might have worked for the good of the three kingdoms. For it was quite true, as the Queen said, that each one alone was a poor weak state, open to danger from every side, bu...
Bibliography
1. Bain, Robert Nisbet (1911). "Margaret, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 702. 2. Etting, Vivian (2004). Queen Margrete I (1353–1412) and the Founding of the Nordic Union. Brill. ISBN 978-9047404798. 3. Etting, Vivian (2009), Margrete den første, Nordisk Forlag A/S, ISBN 978-8702071771. 4. Magill, Frank N. (2012), The Middle Ages: Dictionary of World Biography, volume 2, Routledge, ISBN...
Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Margaret. Queen of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead..
Olaf I de Dinamarca. Rey de Dinamarca (1086-1095), sucediendo a su hermano Canuto el Santo. Fue el tercer hijo del rey Svend II. Olaf I se casó con Ingegerd Haraldsdatter, princesa de Noruega. Olaf I no tuvo hijos, por ello cuando muere en 1095 es sucedido por su hermano Erico I.
Olaf Tryggvason (960s – 9 September 1000) was King of Norway from 995 to 1000. He was the son of Tryggvi Olafsson, king of Viken ( Vingulmark, and Rånrike ), and, according to later sagas, the great-grandson of Harald Fairhair, first King of Norway. He is numbered as Olaf I .
