Family of Canute LAVARD and Ingeborga of KIEV

Husband:	Canute LAVARD (1096-1131)
Wife:	Ingeborga of KIEV (1099- )
Children:	Christina (1118- )
	Margaret (c. 1120- )
	Catherine (c. 1125- )
	Valdemar I (1131-1182)

Husband: Canute LAVARD

Name:	Canute LAVARD
Sex:	Male
Father:	Eric I (1060-1103)
Mother:	Boedil THURGOTSDATTER (c. 1070-1103)
Birth	12 Mar 1096	Roskilde, Denmark
Occupation		Prince of Denmark
Title	frm 1120 to 1131 (age 23-35)	Duke of Denmark (Southern Jutland)
Religion		Roman Catholic
Death	7 Jan 1131 (age 34)	Haraldsted Forest, Ringsted, Zealand, Denmark
	Cause: murderd by Magnus the Strong
Burial		St. Bendt's Church, Ringsted

Wife: Ingeborga of KIEV

Name:	Ingeborga of KIEV
Sex:	Female
Father:	Vladimirovich + (1076-1132)
Mother:	Christina INGESTOTTER (1078-1122)
Birth	1099

Child 1: Christina

Name:	Christina
Sex:	Female
Birth	1118

Child 2: Margaret

Name:	Margaret
Sex:	Female
Birth	1120 (est)

Child 3: Catherine

Name:	Catherine
Sex:	Female
Birth	1125 (est)

Child 4: Valdemar I

Note on Husband: Canute LAVARD

Canute Lavard ( Danish: Knud Lavard) (March 12, 1096 – 7 January 1131) was a Danish prince. Later he was the first Duke of Schleswig and the first border prince who was both a Danish and a German vassal, a position leafing towards the historical double position of Southern Jutland. Canute Lavard was also the ancestor of the Valdemarian Kings (Valdemarerne) and of their subsequent royal line.[1]

 

Canute was the only legitimate son of Eric I of Denmark and Boedil Thurgotsdatter but as a minor he was bypassed in the election of 1104. He grew up in close contact with the noble family of Hvide, who were later on to be among his most eager supporters. In 1115, his uncle, King Niels of Denmark, placed him in charge of the Duchy of Schleswig (jarl af Sønderjyll') in order to put an end to the attacks of the Slavic Obotrites. During the next fifteen years, he fulfilled his duty of establishing peace in the border area so well that he was titled Duke of Holstein (Hertug af Holsten) and became a vassal of the Holy Roman Empire.

 

He seems to have been the first member of the Danish royal family who was attracted by the knightly ideals and habits of medieval Germany, indicated by his changing his title to Duke of Schleswig (Hertug af Slesvig) . His appearance made him a popular man and a possible successor of his uncle, but he also acquired mighty enemies among the Danish princes and magnates, who apparently questioned his loyalty and feared his bond with Emperor Lothair III, who had recognized him as sovereign over the western Wends. Whether these suspicions were just or not is impossible to say.

 

Both Niels and his son, Magnus the Strong, seem to have been alarmed by Canute's recognition by the emperor. On 7 January 1131, Canute was trapped in the Haraldsted Forest (Haraldsted Skov) near Ringsted in Zealand and murdered by Magnus. Ringsted Abbey, one of the earliest Benedictine houses in Denmark, became the initial resting place of Canute Lavard. In 1157, Canute Lavard's remains were moved into a new chapel at St. Bendt's Church in Ringsted. A chapel (Knut Lavards Kapel) was erected at the site of his death during medieval times but disappeared after the Reformation. The ruins were rediscovered in 1883. In 1902 a memorial in the form of a 4-metre crucifix was erected near the site of the death of Canute Lavard.[2]

 

After the death of Canute Lavard, the Obotrite lands were partitioned between Pribislav and Niklot (1090–1160), both chiefs of the Obotrites. Some sources consider the death of Canute to be a murder committed by Magnus; some attribute it to Niels himself. The death provoked a civil war that intermittently lasted until 1157, ending only with the triumph of Canute’s posthumous son Valdemar I. The fate of Canute and his son’s victory formed the background for his canonisation in 1170, which was requested by the same Valdemar. His feast day (Knutsdagen) is celebrated on the day of his death, January 7.[3]

 

[edit] IssueCanute Lavard was married to Ingeborg of Kiev, daughter of Mstislav I of Kiev and Christina Ingesdotter of Sweden. They had four children:

 

1.Margaret, married Stig Hvitaledr

2.Christina (b. 1118), married (1133) Magnus IV of Norway

3.Catherine, married Pribislav Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg

4.Valdemar I of Denmark (born 1131)