Margaret Fredkulla
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Margaret Fredkulla was a Swedish princess who became successively queen of Norway and Denmark by marriage to kings Magnus III of Norway and Niels of Denmark. She was also de facto regent of Denmark.
Contemporary wall painting of Margaret Fredkulla in Vä Church in Scania
Three kings on the contemporary Skog tapestry have been thought by historians Lagerqvist and Åberg possibly to allude to the Scandinavian summit meeting where Margaret was betrothed to the Norwegian king.
Magnus Barefoot
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Magnus III Olafsson, better known as Magnus Barefoot, was the King of Norway from 1093 until his death in 1103. His reign was marked by aggressive military campaigns and conquest, particularly in the
Margaret Fredkulla
…Norwegian: Margrete Fredkolla; 1080s – 4 November 1130) was a Swedish princess who became successively queen of Norway and Denmark by marriage to kings Magnus III of Norway and Niels of Denmark. She was also de facto regent of Denmark. Margaret was born a princess as one of four children of King Inge the Elder of Sweden…
Silver penning struck sometime during the reign of Magnus
Page of 13th-century copy of the Norwegian chronicle Ágrip, a source for Magnus Barefoot's life
The hanging of Egil Aslaksson, as imagined by Wilhelm Wetlesen (1899)
Magnus Barefoot's army in Ireland, as imagined in Gustav Storm's 1899 edition of Heimskringla