Roskilde Cathedral
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Roskilde Cathedral, in the city of Roskilde on the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark, is a cathedral of the Lutheran Church of Denmark.
View from the north-west
The cathedral seen from the Bispegården (Bishop's house).
Christian IX's Chapel (right) and Frederik IX's Burial Site (left).
The altar
Margaret I of Denmark
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Margaret I was queen regnant of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden from the late 1380s until her death, and the founder of the Kalmar Union that joined the Scandinavian kingdoms together for over a century.
Roskilde Cathedral
…destroyed several of the canons' houses in the area. Several chapels were also added to the cathedral, and in 1405, work on the towers was completed. When Margrethe I died in 1412, she was buried in her family's chapel at Sorø Klosterkirke. But the following year bishop Peder Jensen Lodehat, who had been the queen's…
1423 effigy on Margaret's tomb in Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark
Margaret's parents, King Valdemar IV (left) and Queen Helvig (right), c. 1375.
A page from a letter in which Margaret informs her husband King Haakon VI of her and her servants' distress at Akershus Fortress, asking him to provide sustenance and conveying various news. Dated 18 October, c. 1370.
Margaret's Royal Arms combined the arms of the three kingdoms, according to the Nationalmuseum.