Ingeborg of Kiev

Ingeborg of Kiev
Spouse	Canute Lavard
Issue	Margaret Hvitaledr Christine, Queen of Norway Catherine, Duchess of Mecklenburg Valdemar I of Denmark
House	Rurik dynasty (by birth) House of Estridsen (by marriage)
Father	Mstislav I of Kiev
Mother	Christina Ingesdotter of Sweden

Ingeborg Mstislavna of Kiev (fl. 1137) was a Ruthenian princess, married to the Danish prince Canute Lavard of Jutland.

She was the daughter of Grand Prince Mstislav I of Kiev and Christina Ingesdotter of Sweden and was in about 1116 married to Canute in a marriage arranged by her maternal aunt, the Danish queen Margaret Fredkulla. In 1130, she tried to prevent Canute from going to the gathering where he was to be murdered, but without success. She gave birth to their son, Valdemar I of Denmark, posthumously in January 1131. In 1137, she refused to support the suggestion of Christiern Svendsen to proclaim her son monarch after the death of Erik Emune. Ingeborg is not mentioned after this, and the date of her birth and death are unknown.

Issue

• Margaret of Denmark; married Stig Hvitaledr
• Christine of Denmark (b. 1118); married (1133) Magnus IV of Norway
• Catherine of Denmark; married Pribislav Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg
• Valdemar I of Denmark (born 1131)

References

• Ingeborg i Carl Frederik Bricka, Dansk biografisk Lexikon (första utgåvan, 1894)