Knud Lavard

Knud Lavard (1096 - 1131) Danish prince. Duke of Southern Jutland of 1115 with 1131, King of Odobrites of 1129 with 1131

Knud Lavard was the legitimate son of the king Eric Ier of Denmark and of the queen Bodil Thrugosdatter. It was born on March 12th or April 1096. In 11115 the successor of its father, his uncle, the king Niels of Denmark grants to him of the title of duke of the South Jutland.

Henri the Christian prince of Odobrites, populates Wende of Vagrie, close to his duchy, which had been high in Denmark, had died in 1129 and the royal family had been massacred. Knud Lavard is made give by the Germanic emperor the title of king with for mission of finishing the evangelization of the pagan last of this area of the coast of the Baltic.

His/her cousin Magnus Nilsson the son of Niels Ier of Denmark was of sound with dimensions become the king Magnus Ier Hard the of Sweden like small son of the king Inge Ier Old the of Sweden.

The two possible applicants with the succession of the kingdom of Denmark were already thus equipped with royal titles and animosity between them nothing but did develop until Magnus Nilsson and its Hird kill Knud Lavard in Haraldsted close to Ringsted in Sjaelland on January 7th, 1131. A worship developed quickly on the tomb of the young prince.

Knud Lavard was recognized officially like Saint under the reign of his/her son Valdemar Ier of Denmark by the pope Alexandre III on June 25th, 1170.

From her marriage in 1116 with Ingeborg the girl of the prince Mstislav Ier of Kiev were born several children:

  • Marguerite marries Stig Tokesen Hvide died in 1151

  • Catherine marries towards 1159 of Pribislav prince of Wendes

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