Canute VI of Denmark
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Canute VI was King of Denmark from 1182 to 1202. Contemporary sources describe Canute as an earnest, strongly religious man.
Contemporary donor portrait of Canute in Stehag Church, Scania
Sophia of Minsk
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Sophia of Minsk or Sophia of Polotsk was a Danish queen consort by marriage to King Valdemar I of Denmark, and a landgravine of Thuringia by marriage to Louis III, Landgrave of Thuringia.
Canute VI of Denmark
…from 1182 to 1202. Contemporary sources describe Canute as an earnest, strongly religious man. Canute VI was the eldest son of King Valdemar I and Sophia of Polotsk. His younger brother Valdemar was born in 1170. On 25 June 1170, at age 7, Canute was proclaimed and crowned co-king of Denmark with his father. Canute…
Sophia of Minsk 1855 portrait bust
Gravestone for Queen Sophia in St. Bendt's Church in Ringsted.
1157 bracteate commemorating the wedding of Valdemar and Sophia of Minsk