Knud Magnussen (1129 - 1157)

Born 1129 in Roskilde, Denmark

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Died 9 Aug 1157 at about age 28 in Roskilde, Danmark

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Biography

Research note: Knut gifte sig 1156 med en dotter (i vissa texter kallad Helena) till kung Sverker den äldre av Sverige, som i sin tur hade gift om sig med Knuts mor, Rikissa, vilket innebar att Knuts mor också blev hans styvsvärmor.

Knud Magnussen, King Knud V of Denmark 1146 - 1157.

Knud III Magnuson, King of Denmark was born circa 1130.1 He was the son of Magnus Nielson, King of Sweden and Richza of Poland.2 He married Helena Sverkersdottir, daughter of Sverker I Kolsson, King of Sweden and Ulfhild Haakonsdottir, in 1156. Killed at "the Blood Feast of Roskilde" 9 August 1157.

Children:

• Brigitte (?)+3
• Niels Knudson
• Valdemar Knudson, Baron von Schleswig b. 1157

Citations ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

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ROYAL DANISH ANCESTRY: http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedidex.php/n=royal?denmark predecessor Eric III Lamb; successor Valdemar I the Great Eldest son of Magnus of Sweden and Richeza of Poland

m. Helena pf Sweden ca.1156, no issue;

Knud 3rd had quite a few children with mistresses.

• Niels “den Hellige”, Saint Niels (illegitimate)
• Knud
• Valdemar, 1158-1236, Valdemar, Bishop of Schleswig (illegitimate)
• Jutta
• Hildegaard, Princess of Rügen (illegitimate)
• Ingerd, Ingrid, Duchess of Pomerania (illegitimate)
• Brigitte, Countess of Anhalt (illegitimate)

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King Knud III Magnussen 1128 - 1157 King 1146 - 1157 In 1146 Erik Lam joined a monastry, and Knud was elected king by the Jutlanders, at the same time Svend Grathe was acclaimed by the Zealanders. It gave civil war. All of them looked for support at the German emperor Frederik I Barbarossa, who gave the crown to Svend, and various provinces to Knud and Valdemar.

The war continued. After a brief defeat, where Knud had to surrender to Germany, but he returned together with a Saxen army to help. In the summer of 1157 they agreed to a compromise, where each of them should have one third of Denmark.

When after some time a settlement gathering was to take place in the kings castle in Roskilde, known as “The blood party in Roskilde”, Svend, however, tried to get rid of Knud and Valdemar. They were attacked by armed men, and they themselves had brought no weapon to the gathering, so they had only their bare hands to protect themselves. Knud was killed, but badly wounded Valdemar succeeded in escaping and went to Jutland, where he gathered a large peasant-army.

Svend followed together with his army, but lost in the fight against the peasant-army. After the fight Svend was killed by a peasant at Grathe Hede (Heath) near Viborg (1157). Svend got the byname Grathe from the place, where he died. Valdemar was now acclaimed sole-king.

Sources

1. ↑ [S16] Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 16. Hereinafter cited as Lines of Succession.
2. ↑ [S38] John Morby, Dynasties of the World: a chronological and genealogical handbook (Oxford, Oxfordshire, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1989), page 149. Hereinafter cited as Dynasties of the World.
3. ↑ [S130] Wikipedia, online http;//www.wikipedia.org. Hereinafter cited as Wikipedia.
4. ↑ http://www.thepeerage.com/p10546.htm#i105453

See also:

• https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knud_5.
• http://kongehuset.dk/monarkiet-i-danmark/kongerakken
• http://kongehuset.dk/stamtraeet
• http://www.danmarkskonger.dk/king18.htm

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to Lars Vad for starting this profile. Click the Changes tab for the details of contributions by Lars and others.
• Thank you to Erik Ginnerskov for creating Magnussen-11 on 19 Dec 13.
• This person was created through the import of McQuery Family Tree.ged on 20 May 2011.