Ingeborg Birgersdotter Explained

Ingeborg Birgersdotter
Duchess consort of Saxony
Noble Family:House of Bjelbo (by birth)
House of Ascania (by marriage)
Father:Birger Jarl
Mother:Ingeborg Eriksdotter of Sweden
Spouse:John I, Duke of Saxony
Issue:Helen, Countess of Holstein-Schauenburg
Elisabeth, Duchess of Schleswig
John II of Saxe-Lauenburg
Eric I of Saxe-Lauenburg
Albert III of Saxe-Lauenburg
Sophia, prioress in Plötzkau
Death Date:30 June
Burial Place:Mölln, Schleswig-Holstein

Ingeborg Birgersdotter (30 June 1302), was a Duchess consort of Saxony, married to John I, Duke of Saxony. She was the daughter of the Swedish regent Birger Jarl and Princess Ingeborg Eriksdotter of Sweden.

Ingeborg Birgersdotter has been falsely identified as the daughter of her maternal uncle King Eric XI of Sweden, likely because she in contemporary German sources was referred to as Latin: filiam regis Suecie and Latin: filia Regis Sweonum (Daughter of the Swedish King).

Marriage and issue

Ingeborg married John I, Duke of Saxony, in 1270. She had eight children, among them the following:

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