Niels of Denmark

Niels Ier of Denmark king de Danemark of 1104 with 1134

Niels Ier of Denmark is the fifth wire of the king Sven II of Denmark which reaches the royalty successively. He becomes king in 1104 with dead of his brother Eric Ier of Denmark to the detriment of the son of this last Harald Kesja.

The beginning of its long reign is liable. Niels marries Margaret Fredkulla girl of the king de Suède Inge Ier Old the and widow of Magnus III of Norway. Magnus Nilsson den Starke (the Fort) the only son born from this union was selected in 1125 as king de Suède under not of Magnus Ier the Fort by the inhabitants of the Västergötland.

After the death of Margareta he marries towards 1130 Ulvhild Haakonsdatter the widow of Inge II the Young person.

Magnus Nilsson which was regarded as the heir to the kingdom of Denmark, worried about the popularity of his/her cousin Knut Lavard the legitimate son of the king Eric Ier of Denmark which had also received from the emperor a royal title in 1129 to reign on Odobrites Slavic people of the edges of the Baltic.

The January 7th 1131 with Ringsted in Sjælland Magnus makes assassinate Knut Lavard by its personal guard (Hird). This murder starts a violent civil war. The future Eric II of Denmark takes the head of the partisans of its assassinated half-brother gathered by the family of Asser Hvide of Sjælland and the Asser archbishop.

Magnus Nilsson, recalled by his/her father to Denmark succeeds in pushing back Eric Emune who must exile himself temporarily in 1133.

Niels Ier and its son are also drank some with the increasing hostility of the Germanic emperor who reproaches them for having maltreated German merchants members of the Hanse. In spite of the homage that Magnus Nilsson must return to him for the first of the history of Denmark at Easter 1134 to Halberstadt the emperor Lothaire II shows a benevolent neutrality for the projects of the enemies of the king.

Thus the army of knights of Eric II Emune reinforced by 300 German mercenaries crushes the royal army in Scanie the June 4th 1134 with Fotevik close to Skanör.

Magnus Nilsson perishes in engagement as well as the prince Henrik of Denmark, Magnus Haraldsen a son of Harald Kesja and five bishops who supported the party of the king including four holders of Danish seats: Peder of Roskilde, Adelbert of Slesvig, Ulkketl of Aarhus, and Thorik of Ribe.

Niels Ier must take refuge with the Jutland where it is killed by the inhabitants the June 25th 1134.

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