Cecilia (Knutsdottir) Knutsdatter (abt. 1085 - aft. 1131)

Born about 1085 in Danmark

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Died after 7 Jan 1131 after about age 46 in Danmark

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Biografi

Cecilia Knudsdatter av Danmark

Cæcilia var datter af Kong Knud den Hellige og Adele af Flandern. Hun var tvillingesøster til Ingegerd af Danmark og lillesøster til Karl af Flandern.^[1]

Cecilia ægtede den gøtiske Jarl Erik som senere blev Jarl over Falster; de omtales som boende paa Gaarden Haraldsted, nord for Ringsted. De hade sønnerne Knud og Carl. ^[1]

Wikipedia nämner även en dotter vid namn Inger^[2]

Biography

At the deposition and murder of her father in 1086, her mother left Denmark and returned to Flanders with her son Carl (Charles), while Cecilia and her twin sister Ingegerd followed their paternal uncle Eric I of Denmark and Boedil Thurgotsdatter to Sweden.

Both sisters married Swedish aristocrats. Cecilia married Eric Jarl. She later returned to Denmark, where her spouse was made jarl of Falster, and the couple settled at Haraldsted at Ringsted. The couple had two sons: Knud and Carl, Duke of Halland. In 1131, Canute Lavard visited her.

Note

-Dotter, -Datter, -Dottir are all the same ending, meaning "daughter" in Scandinavia, and attached behind the father's first name. A woman kept her birth name all her life and did not take on her husband's last name as her own until about 100-200 years ago.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} biografisk Lexikon IV,(1887-1905) Author: Carl Frederik Bricka. Page 125. Made available online by Project Runeberg.
2. ↑ Cæcilia af Danmark

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