- Brigida Haraldsdotter
Brigida Haraldsdotter (Swedish: Birgitta Haraldsdotter), (d. after c. 1180), was a medieval Swedish queen, Queen consort of King
Magnus (II) of Sweden .Brigida Haraldsdotter was the illegitimate daughter of King
Harald IV of Norway (1103-1136); her Irish name was the same name that her fathers' Irish mother, Brigida O'Brien (d. 1138) had. She was married to Prince Magnus Henriksen, son of her step-mother PrincessIngrid Ragnvaldsdotter of Sweden and Ingrid's first husband, PrinceHenrik Skadelår of Denmark, who claimed the Swedish throne through his mother in 1160-1161, during which she was called Quuen Birgitta of Sweden for one year. After his death, she remarried the Swedish "jarl "Birger Brosa ; the daughter she had during her marriage to Brosa,Ingegerd Birgersdotter of Bjelbo , was later to be Queen of Sweden.The dates of her birth and death are not known, though her daughter's birth year is set at 1180. The dates c. 1131-1208 have ben suggested, also that she, after the death of her second husband in 1202, retired to the
Riseberga Nunnery .Children
*Ingegerd Birgersdotter of Bjelbo , (ca 1180-1230), Queen of Sweden 1200-1208.References
*Lars O. Lagerqvist, "Sverige och dess regenter under 1.000 år", (1976) ("Sweden and its rulers during 1000 years").
* Åke Ohlmarks, "Alla Sveriges drottningar".Sucession
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