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Paternal Family Tree: Estridsen
Before 1159 [her father] Valdemar "Great" I King Denmark (age 27) and [her step-mother] Sophia of Minsk were married.
In 1174 Ingeborg Estridsen Queen Consort France was born to Valdemar "Great" I King Denmark (age 42).
On 28th April 1180 [her future husband] King Philip II of France (age 14) and Isabelle Flanders Queen Consort France (age 10) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort of France. She the daughter of Baldwin Flanders V Count Hainault (age 30) and Margaret Metz Countess Hainault and Flanders. He the son of Louis VII King Franks (age 60) and Adèle Blois. They were half third cousins. He a great x 2 grandson of King William "Conqueror" I of England.
On 12th May 1182 [her father] Valdemar "Great" I King Denmark (age 51) died. His son [her half-brother] Canute (age 19) succeeded VI King Denmark.
Chronicum Anglicanum by Ralph Coggeshall. In the same year [1193], the same king took to wife1 the sister of the King of Denmark, named Ingeborg, a maiden endowed with marvelous beauty. But after the marriage he repudiated her, and placed her among the nuns at Soissons; and he immediately ordered all the Danes who had come with her to return home.
Eodem anno, idem rex sororem regis Daciæ, nomine Ingelburgh, puellam mirabili decore præditam, accepit in uxorem, quam post nuptias repudians, inter sanctimoniales apud Suessionem collocavit; omnesque Dacos, qui cum illa advenerant, illico repatriare jussit.
Note 1. [her future husband] King Philip II of France (age 27) married Ingeborg of Denmark (age 19) on 14th August 1193. Three months later he sought an annulment of the marriage on the grounds of her consanguinity with his first wife Isabel of Hainault. Ingeborg was held in captivity for twenty years before being reconciled with Philip in 1213.
Ralph de Decito: "Philip, king of the Franks, took to wife the sister of the king of Denmark; but because the divorce between them was solemnly carried out unexpectedly, this was spoken of among the people far more than the royal wedding which had previously taken place at the city of Amiens on the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin [15th August 1193]. Separated from the king, the queen preferred to live among the nuns at Soissons rather than to return to her father's home in Denmark."
On 15th August 1193 King Philip II of France (age 27) and Ingeborg Estridsen Queen Consort France (age 19) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort of France. She the daughter of Valdemar "Great" I King Denmark. He the son of Louis VII King Franks and Adèle Blois.
Around November 1193 King Philip II of France (age 28) and Ingeborg Estridsen Queen Consort France (age 19) marriage annulled on the spurious grounds of her consanguinity with his first wife Isabelle Flanders Queen Consort France. She was kept, more or less, a prisoner for the remainder of her life being held in difference French castles.
On 20th August 1195 William Montgomery IV Count Ponthieu (age 16) and [her former sister-in-law] Alys Capet Countess Ponthieu (age 34) were married. She by marriage Countess Ponthieu. She the daughter of Louis VII King Franks and Constance of Castile. He the son of John Montgomery I Count Ponthieu and Beatrice St Pol Countess Ponthieu. They were third cousin once removed.
On 7th May 1196 [her former husband] King Philip II of France (age 30) and Agnes of Merania Queen Consort France were married. She by marriage Queen Consort of France. She the daughter of Berthold Andechs Duke Merania and Agnes Rochlitz. He the son of Louis VII King Franks and Adèle Blois.
In 1197 [her former sister-in-law] Alix Capet Countess Blois (age 46) died.
On 11th March 1198 [her former sister-in-law] Marie Capet Countess Champagne (age 53) died.
23rd May 1200 [her former step-son] King Louis VIII of France (age 12) and Blanche Ivrea Queen Consort France (age 12) were married. She the daughter of Alfonso VIII King Castile (age 44) and Eleanor Plantagenet Queen Consort Castile (age 38). He the son of [her former husband] King Philip II of France (age 34) and Isabelle Flanders Queen Consort France. They were third cousins. He a great x 3 grandson of King William "Conqueror" I of England. She a granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.
Around 1220 [her former sister-in-law] Alys Capet Countess Ponthieu (age 59) died.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 14th July 1223 [her former husband] King Philip II of France (age 57) died. His son [her former step-son] Louis (age 35) succeeded VIII King France: Capet. Blanche Ivrea Queen Consort France (age 35) by marriage Queen Consort of France.
On 29th July 1237 Ingeborg Estridsen Queen Consort France (age 63) died.
Great x 1 Grandfather: Eric I King Denmark
GrandFather: Canute Lavard
Father: Valdemar "Great" I King Denmark