Valdemar I of Denmark
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King of Denmark | |||||
Reign | 1146– 17 November 1182 | ||||
Predecessor | Sweyn III | ||||
Successor | Canute VI | ||||
Duke of Schleswig | |||||
Reign | 1152–1154 | ||||
Predecessor | Magnus | ||||
Successor | Christopher | ||||
Born | 14 January 1131 | ||||
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Vordingborg |
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Burial | St. Bendt's Church, Ringsted | ||||
Consort | Sophia of Minsk | ||||
Issue among others... |
Sophia, Countess of Orlamünde King Canute VI of Denmark King Valdemar II of Denmark Ingeborg, Queen of France Helena, Duchess of Lüneburg Richeza, Queen of Sweden Christopher of Jutland (illegitimate) |
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House | House of Estridsen | ||||
Father | Canute Lavard | ||||
Mother | Ingeborg of Kiev | ||||
Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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Valdemar I of Denmark (14 January 1131 – 12 May 1182), also known as Valdemar the Great (Danish: Valdemar den Store), was King of Denmark from 1146 until his death in 1182.
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Biography
He was the son of Canute Lavard, a chivalrous and popular Danish prince, who was the eldest son of Eric I of Denmark. Valdemar's father was murdered by Magnus the Strong days before the birth of Valdemar; his mother, Ingeborg of Kiev, daughter of Mstislav I of Kiev and Christina Ingesdotter of Sweden, named him after her grandfather, Vladimir Monomakh of Kiev.
As an heir to the throne, and with his rivals quickly gaining power, he was raised in the court of Asser Rig of Fjenneslev, together with Asser's sons, Absalon and Esbern Snare, who would become his trusted friends and ministers.
In 1146, when Valdemar was fifteen years old, King Erik III Lamb abdicated and a civil war erupted. The pretenders to the throne were: Sweyn III Grathe, son of Eric II Emune, son of Eric I. Canute V, son of Magnus the Strong who was the son of King Niels, who was the brother of Erik I. Valdemar himself held Jutland, at least Schleswig, as his possession. The civil war lasted the better part of ten years.
In 1157, the three agreed to part the country in three among themselves. Sweyn hosted a great banquet for Canute, Absalon, and Valdemar during which he planned to dispose of all of them. Canute was killed, but Absalon and Valdemar escaped. Valdemar returned to Jutland. Sweyn quickly launched an invasion, only to be defeated by Valdemar in the Battle of Grathe Heath. He was killed during flight, supposedly by a group of peasants who stumbled upon him as he was fleeing from the battlefield. Valdemar, having outlived all his rival pretenders, became the sole King of Denmark.
In 1158 Absalon was elected Bishop of Roskilde, and Valdemar made him his chief friend and advisor. He reorganized and rebuilt war-torn Denmark. At Absalon's instigation he declared war upon the Wends who were raiding the Danish coasts. They inhabited Pomerania and the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea. In 1168 the Wendish capital, Arkona, was taken, and the Wends became Christians and subject to Danish suzerainty. Danish influence reached into Pomerania.
Valdemar's reign saw the rise of Denmark, which reached its zenith under his second son Valdemar II.
Issue
Valdemar married Sophia of Minsk (c. 1141–1198), half-sister of Canute V of Denmark and daughter of Richeza of Poland, dowager queen of Sweden, from her marriage with Volodar of Minsk (Vladimir or Volodar Glebovich of the Rurikids, died 1167), ruling Prince of Minsk, and they had the following children:
- Sophia (1159–1208), married Siegfried III, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde
- King Canute VI of Denmark (1163–1202)
- Maria (born c. 1165), nun at Roskilde (1188).
- Margaret (born c. 1167), nun at Roskilde (1188).
- King Valdemar II of Denmark (1170–1241).
- Ingeborg (1175–1236), married King Philip II of France.
- Helena (c.1177–1233), married William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
- Richeza (c. 1180–1220), married King Eric X of Sweden.
His widow Sophia married then Louis III, Landgrave of Thuringia.
Illegitimate with Tove:
- Christopher (1150–1173), Valdemar's eldest son, Duke of Jutland (dux Iuciae[1]) ca. 1170–1173
Ancestry
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Notes
- ↑ Esben Albrectsen, "Das Abel-Geschlecht und die Schauenburger als Herzöge von Schleswig", Marion Hartwig and Frauke Witte (trls.), in: Die Fürsten des Landes: Herzöge und Grafen von Schleswig, Holstein und Lauenburg [De slevigske hertuger; German], Carsten Porskrog Rasmussen (ed.) on behalf of the Gesellschaft für Schleswig-Holsteinische Geschichte, Neumünster: Wachholtz, 2008, pp. 52–71, here p. 52. ISBN 978-3-529-02606-5
External links
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Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Valdemar I.. |
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- Find-A-Grave profile for Valdemar I the Great
- http://www.kingsofdenmark.dk/king19.htm
Valdemar the Great
Born: 14 January 1131 Died: 12 May 1182 |
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Preceded by | King of Denmark 1146–1182 with Sweyn Grathe (1146–1157) & Canute V (1146–1157) |
Succeeded by Canute VI |
Vacant
Title last held by
Magnus |
Duke in Southern Jutland titled there: Duke of Denmark ca. 1152–1154 |
Vacant
Title next held by
Christopher |