"Margaret of Sweden, Queen of Norway Margaret of Sweden (Norwegian: ""Margrete Eriksdotter""; c. 1155 – 1209) was Norwegian Queen consort as spouse of King Sverre of Norway. Margaret was the daughter of King Eric IX of Sweden and Queen Christina Björnsdotter. In 1189, she married the Norwegian King Sverre. She is only sporadically mentioned in history during her tenure as queen; primarily in connection with an attempt by Nikolas Arnesson to become Bishop of Stavanger. In the sagas, Queen Margaret is portrayed as suspect and intrigant She became a widow in 1202, returned to her native Sweden, and retired to"
"Margaret, Maid of Norway Margaret, Maid of Norway (; 9 April 1283 – 26 September 1290) was a Norwegian princess who was recognised as Queen of Scots following the death of her grandfather, King Alexander III, in March 1286. Her death in Orkney while travelling to Scotland sparked off the disputed succession which led to the Wars of Scottish Independence. She was the daughter of King Eric II of Norway and Margaret, daughter of King Alexander III of Scotland. Margaret was born in Tønsberg. Her mother died in childbirth. When the treaty arranging the marriage of Margaret and Eric was"
"Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway Margaret of Scotland (Old Norse: ""Margrét Alexandersdóttir""; Norwegian: ""Margrete Alexandersdotter""; Scottish Gaelic: ""Maighread Nic Rìgh Alasdair""; 28 February 1261 – 9 April 1283) was Queen of Norway as the wife of King Eric II. She was born at Windsor Castle, the daughter of King Alexander III of Scotland and his first wife, Margaret of England. Margaret came to Norway at 20 years of age to marry the 13-year-old king Eric Magnusson. Eric became king of Norway on 9 May 1280. A marriage contract was signed in royal burgh of Roxburgh on 25 July 1281."
"Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland Margaret of Denmark (23 June 1456 – 14 July 1486), also referred to as Margaret of Norway, was Queen of Scotland from 1469 to 1486 by marriage to King James III. She was the daughter of Christian I, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and Dorothea of Brandenburg. Margaret was born in Denmark to the King Christian I and Queen Dorothea of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Not much is known about Margaret's upbringing. By the time she was four years old there were talks about her marriage to the Scottish Prince James. In 1468"
"Margaret I of Denmark Margaret I (, , , , ; 15 March 1353 – 28 October 1412) was queen consort of Norway (1363–1380) and Sweden (1363–1364) and later ruler in her own right of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, from which later period there are ambiguities regarding her specific titles. She was the founder of the Kalmar Union, which spanned Scandinavia for over a century. Margaret was known as a wise, energetic and capable leader, who governed with ""farsighted tact and caution,"" earning the nickname ""Semiramis of the North"", or ""the Lady King"". Though the latter was a derisive nickname"
"were members of the royal houses of Scotland, either as princesses or queen consorts. Some of these became important figures in the history of Scotland or gained a significant posthumous reputation. There was only one reigning Scottish Queen in this period, the uncrowned and short-lived Margaret, Maid of Norway (r. 1286–90). The first wife called ""queen"" in Scottish sources is the Anglo-Saxon and German princess Margaret, the wife of Malcolm III, which may have been a title and status negotiated by her relatives. She was a major political and religious figure within the kingdom, but her status was not automatically"
"mourned her death, and sent a supplication to the Pope where he applied for her to be declared a saint. Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland Margaret of Denmark (23 June 1456 – 14 July 1486), also referred to as Margaret of Norway, was Queen of Scotland from 1469 to 1486 by marriage to King James III. She was the daughter of Christian I, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and Dorothea of Brandenburg. Margaret was born in Denmark to the King Christian I and Queen Dorothea of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Not much is known about Margaret's upbringing. By"
"reputation. There was only one reigning Scottish Queen in this period, the uncrowned and short-lived Margaret, Maid of Norway (r. 1286–90). The first wife called ""queen"" in Scottish sources is the Anglo-Saxon and German princess Margaret, the wife of Malcolm III, which may have been a title and status negotiated by her relatives. She was a major political and religious figure within the kingdom, but her status was not automatically passed on to her successors, most of whom did not have the same prominence. Ermengarde de Beaumont, the wife of William I, acted as a mediator, judge in her husband's"
"in the Norwegian language; these used temporal journals and diaries as reference. Anna Throndsen Anna Tronds (c. 1540–1607), known in English as Anna Throndsen and posthumously as Anna Rustung, was a Dano-Norwegian noblewoman. In English and Scots history, Anna Throndsen is best known for her marriage to James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (which later earned her the nickname ""Skottefruen"" (""""The Scottish Lady""""), a man who later married Mary, Queen of Scots. Anna Throndsen is also known for her possible but much debated and disputed involvement in drafting some of the famous Casket Letters; these letters being the principal evidence"
"Queen"", without specifying what she was queen of, but not so Pope Boniface IX, who in his letters styled her ""our beloved daughter in Christ, Margaret, most excellent queen of Denmark, Sweden and Norway"". (""""Carissime in Christo filie Margarete Dacie Suecie et Norwegie regine illustri"""".) When she married Haakon VI of Norway in 1363, he was co-King of Sweden, making Margaret queen consort, and despite being deposed, they never relinquished the title. In theory, the Swedes' expulsion of Albert I in 1389 simply restored Margaret to her original position. From March 1353 to 28 October 1412), she was Queen of"
"Western Norway. Eirik married princess Margaret of Scotland, daughter of King Alexander III of Scotland in Bergen in 1281. Margaret died two years later in childbirth, giving birth to Margaret, Maid of Norway, who became queen of Scotland in 1286 until her death in 1290. Her death sparked the disputed succession which led to the Wars of Scottish Independence. Eirik briefly and unsuccessfully laid claim to the Scottish crown as inheritance from his daughter. Eirik later married Isabel Bruce, sister of King Robert I of Scotland. Their marriage did not produce a surviving male heir, though it did produce a"
"name retroactively many centuries later, after the American War of Independence made the term popular. When King Alexander III ruled Scotland, his reign had seen a period of peace and economic stability. On 19 March 1286, however, Alexander died after falling from his horse. The heir to the throne was Alexander's granddaughter, Margaret, Maid of Norway. As she was still a child and in Norway, the Scottish lords set up a government of guardians. Margaret fell ill on the voyage to Scotland and died in Orkney on 26 September 1290. The lack of a clear heir led to a period"
"replenishment ship HNoMS ""Maud"" of the Royal Norwegian Navy has also been named for her. The Queen Maud fromage is named after her. Maud of Wales Maud of Wales, (Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria; 26 November 1869 – 20 November 1938) was Queen of Norway as spouse of King Haakon VII. She was the youngest daughter of the British king Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark. Maud of Wales was the first queen of Norway in over five centuries who was not also queen of Denmark or Sweden. Maud was born on 26 November 1869 at Marlborough House, London. She was"
"Saint Margaret of Scotland Saint Margaret of Scotland (Scots: ""Saunt Magret"", c. 1045 – 16 November 1093), also known as Margaret of Wessex, was an English princess and a Scottish queen. Margaret was sometimes called ""The Pearl of Scotland"". Born in exile in the Kingdom of Hungary, she was the sister of Edgar Ætheling, the shortly reigned and uncrowned Anglo-Saxon King of England. Margaret and her family returned to the Kingdom of England in 1057, but fled to the Kingdom of Scotland following the Norman conquest of England in 1066. By the end of 1070, Margaret had married King Malcolm"
"Anna Throndsen Anna Tronds (c. 1540–1607), known in English as Anna Throndsen and posthumously as Anna Rustung, was a Dano-Norwegian noblewoman. In English and Scots history, Anna Throndsen is best known for her marriage to James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (which later earned her the nickname ""Skottefruen"" (""""The Scottish Lady""""), a man who later married Mary, Queen of Scots. Anna Throndsen is also known for her possible but much debated and disputed involvement in drafting some of the famous Casket Letters; these letters being the principal evidence against Mary. Anna was the eldest daughter of Kristoffer Throndsen, a famous"
"by Norwegian nobleman Audun Hugleiksson who noted she brought: precious clothes, 2 golden boiler, 24 silver plate, 4 silver salt cellars and 12 two-handled soup bowls (scyphus) to the marriage. Isabel was king Erik's second wife, he having previously been married to the daughter of King Alexander III of Scotland, Margaret of Scotland, who died in childbirth in 1283. Upon the death of King Alexander three years later, his granddaughter, Eric's daughter Margaret, Maid of Norway became heir to the throne of Scotland. King Eric arranged the marriage of his daughter to the English King Edward I's son Edward, which"
"in 1406, his heir, who became James I, was a prisoner in England. James was eventually released and crowned in 1424. In the intervening period official documents simply referred to him as the ""heir,"" and the Regent Albany issued coins in his own name. Nevertheless, James's reign is now usually considered to start in 1406, not 1424. If considered to have been monarch, Margaret could be considered the first queen regnant in the British isles, and at least in Scotland. Margaret, Maid of Norway Margaret, Maid of Norway (; 9 April 1283 – 26 September 1290) was a Norwegian princess"
"False Margaret False Margaret (or Margareth or Margareta) (c. 1260 – 1301) was a Norwegian woman who impersonated Margaret, Maid of Norway. The real Margaret had died in 1290 at Orkney, and her father, King Eric II, died in 1299, succeeded by his brother King Haakon V. The following year a woman arrived at Bergen, Norway in a ship from Lübeck, Germany, claiming to be Margaret, and accused several people of treason. She claimed that she had not died in Orkney, but had been sent to Germany, where she had married. The people of Bergen and some of the clergy"
"King Inge the Elder and reigned as King Magnus I of Sweden. Queen Margaret had two children with King Niels: Margaret Fredkulla Margaret Fredkulla (1080s – 4 November 1130) was a Swedish princess who became successively queen of Norway and Denmark by marriage to kings Magnus III of Norway and Niels of Denmark. She was also ""de facto"" regent of Denmark. She is known as ""Margareta Fredkulla"" in Sweden, ""Margret Fredskolla"" in Norway and ""Margrete Fredkulla"" in Denmark. An English exonym is ""Margaret Colleen-of-Peace"". Margaret was born a royal princess as one of four children of King Inge the Elder"
"Margaret Fredkulla Margaret Fredkulla (1080s – 4 November 1130) was a Swedish princess who became successively queen of Norway and Denmark by marriage to kings Magnus III of Norway and Niels of Denmark. She was also ""de facto"" regent of Denmark. She is known as ""Margareta Fredkulla"" in Sweden, ""Margret Fredskolla"" in Norway and ""Margrete Fredkulla"" in Denmark. An English exonym is ""Margaret Colleen-of-Peace"". Margaret was born a royal princess as one of four children of King Inge the Elder of Sweden and Queen Helena. The exact year of birth and place of birth is not recorded. In 1101, she"
"political part after the death of her spouse. Ingerid of Denmark Ingerid Swendsdatter of Denmark also called ""Ingrid"", (11th century – d. after 1093) was a Danish princess and a Norwegian Queen consort, spouse of King Olaf III of Norway. Ingerid Swensdatter was the daughter of King Sweyn II of Denmark. It is not known which one of her father's wives and concubines who was the mother of Ingerid. She was married to Olav Kyrre in 1067 in a marriage arranged as a part of the peace treaty between Denmark and Norway, and became Queen of Norway upon marriage the"
"wedding. Her daughter married co-regent Filip Simonsson, the Bagler party candidate to the throne of Norway. Margaret took part in the wedding. Immediately after the wedding she became ill, and died a few weeks later. Margaret of Sweden, Queen of Norway Margaret of Sweden (Norwegian: ""Margrete Eriksdotter""; c. 1155 – 1209) was Norwegian Queen consort as spouse of King Sverre of Norway. Margaret was the daughter of King Eric IX of Sweden and Queen Christina Björnsdotter. In 1189, she married the Norwegian King Sverre. She is only sporadically mentioned in history during her tenure as queen; primarily in connection with"
"Maud of Wales Maud of Wales, (Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria; 26 November 1869 – 20 November 1938) was Queen of Norway as spouse of King Haakon VII. She was the youngest daughter of the British king Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark. Maud of Wales was the first queen of Norway in over five centuries who was not also queen of Denmark or Sweden. Maud was born on 26 November 1869 at Marlborough House, London. She was the third daughter and fifth child of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Queen Victoria, and Alexandra, Princess of Wales,"
"her to take up her right as queen. The Maid's father, Eric of Norway, while keen for his daughter to take up her right in Scotland had been concerned for her safety given the political instability in Scotland. Edward I was able to broker her transfer from Norway, assuaging Eric's fears with his own personal guarantees for the infant girl's safety and also settling the matter of the outstanding dowry payments which Alexander III still owed to Eric for the marriage of his daughter to the Norwegian king. Guaranteed by Edward I of England, the purpose of the treaty was"
"Finland. Isabel Bruce Isabel Bruce (""Isabella de Brus"" or ""Isobail a Brus"", or ""Isabella Robertsdotter Brus"") (c. 1272–1358) was a Queen consort of Norway, married to King Eric II. Isabel was born in Carrick, Scotland. Her parents were Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale and Marjorie, Countess of Carrick. Her brothers included Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, and Edward Bruce who briefly was High King of Ireland. In 1293 at the age of 21, she traveled to Norway with her father and was married at Bergen to King Eric. Her dowry for the marriage was recorded at the"
"illustration of the event (above right). See also ""Encomium Emmae"" (for the ""Encomium Emmae Reginae"" or ""Gesta Cnutonis Regis"" in honour of Queen Emma) Emma of Normandy Emma of Normandy (c. 985 – 6 March 1052) was a queen consort of England, Denmark and Norway. She was the daughter of Richard I, Duke of Normandy, and his second wife, Gunnora. Through her marriages to Æthelred the Unready (1002–1016) and Cnut the Great (1017–1035), she became the Queen Consort of England, Denmark, and Norway. She was the mother of three sons, King Edward the Confessor, Alfred Ætheling, and King Harthacnut, as"
"Ingeborg of Norway Ingeborg of Norway (Old Norse ""Ingibjörg Hákonardóttir"", Swedish ""Ingeborg Håkansdotter"", Norwegian ""Ingebjørg Håkonsdatter""; 1301 – 17 June 1361), was a Norwegian princess and by marriage a Swedish royal duchess with a position in the regency governments in Norway (1319–27) and Sweden (1319–26) during the minority of her son, King Magnus of Norway and Sweden. In 1318–1319, she was Sweden's ""de facto"" ruler, and from 1319 until 1326, she was Sweden's first ""de jure"" female regent. Ingeborg was born as the only legitimate daughter of King Håkon V of Norway from his marriage with Euphemia of Rügen. As"
"marriage, Mette-Marit has been known as ""Her Royal Highness The Crown Princess of Norway"". Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway (born Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby, , on 19 August 1973) is the wife of Crown Prince Haakon, heir apparent to the throne of Norway. A Norwegian commoner and single mother with a disadvantaged past, she was a controversial figure at the time of her engagement to Haakon in 2000. She became crown princess of Norway upon her marriage in 2001. In this role, she has championed humanitarian projects and arts, as well as taking part in official"
"the ""Norðreyjar"" and the ""Suðreyjar"". Helga Moddansdóttir Helga Moddansdóttir was the mistress of Haakon Paulsson who was Earl of Orkney from 1105–1123. The ""Orkneyinga saga"" states that she was the daughter of Moddan () - described as a rich and well-born farmer - and that she and the earl had three children. She was a member of a powerful dynasty in northern Scotland, sometimes referred to as ""Clan Moddan"" by modern historians, whose power base was ""Dale"" possibly near the modern-day Helmsdale in Sutherland. Although little is known about her own activities save a fabulous story about a poisoned shirt"
"Gunnhild, Mother of Kings Gunnhildr konungamóðir (""mother of kings"") or Gunnhildr Gormsdóttir, whose name is often Anglicised as Gunnhild (c. 910 – c. 980) is a quasi-historical figure who appears in the Icelandic Sagas, according to which she was the wife of Eric Bloodaxe (king of Norway 930–34, 'King' of Orkney c. 937–54, and king of Jórvík 948–49 and 952–54). She appears prominently in sagas such as ""Fagrskinna"", ""Egils saga"", ""Njáls saga"", and ""Heimskringla"". The sagas relate that Gunnhild lived during a time of great change and upheaval in Norway. Her father-in-law Harald Fairhair had recently united much of Norway"
"Svein Knutsson Svein Knutsson (Old Norse: ""Sveinn Knútsson"") c. 1016–1035, was the son of Cnut the Great, king of Denmark, Norway, and England, and his first wife Ælfgifu of Northampton, a Mercian noblewoman. In 1017 Cnut married Emma of Normandy, but there is no evidence that Ælfgifu was repudiated, and in 1030 Cnut sent her and Svein as regents to rule Norway. However, their rule was considered oppressive by the Norwegians, and they were expelled in 1034. They imposed new taxes and harsh laws that made them unpopular. In William Shakespeare's ""Macbeth"", there is a character called ""Sweno, the Norways'"
"consort of Sweden and Norway; Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (1799–1859); Carl XV of Sweden and Norway (1826–1872); Oscar II of Sweden and Norway (1829–1907); Louise of Sweden (1851–1926), Queen consort of Denmark; Gustaf V of Sweden (1858–1950); Christian X of Denmark (1870–1847); Haakon VII of Norway (1872–1957); Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (1882–1973); Frederick IX of Denmark (1899–1972); Märtha of Sweden, Crown Princess of Norway (1901-1954); Olav V of Norway (1903–1991); Astrid of Sweden (1905–1935), Queen consort of Belgium; Ingrid of Sweden (1910–2000), Queen consort of Denmark; Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (1927–2005), Grand Duchess consort of Luxembourg; Baudouin"
"Ulvhild Håkansdotter Ulvhild Håkansdotter, (Swedish: ""Ulfhild"", English: ""Wulfhild, Wolfhild""), (c. 1095–c. 1148), was a medieval Scandinavian queen, twice Queen consort of Sweden (c. 1117–25 and c. 1134–48) and once Queen consort of Denmark (c. 1130–34), married to King Inge II of Sweden, King Niels of Denmark and King Sverker I of Sweden. Ulvhild had an important role in the Nordic dynastic connections of her time, but the sources are unfortunately insufficient to map the closer circumstances. She is mentioned as a ""femme fatale"" of high-medieval Scandinavia, as well as a benefactor of the Catholic Church. Ulvhild originated from Norway. The"