Estrid Margarete Svendsdatter
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Estrid Margarete Svendsdatter (Estrith, Astrith) was a Danish princess, daughter of Sweyn Forkbeard and sister of Cnut.
As the wife of Ulf Jarl[1], she was the mother of Sweyn II of Denmark (Svend Estridsen), and Beorn Estrithson[2]. Ulf was killed in 1026.
She then married Robert, Duke of Normandy, a marriage mentioned by Ralph Glaber in his Historiarum libri quinque[3][4]. This match ended in divorce, and was childless; Robert's children including William the Conqueror were illegitimate. Adam of Bremen gives a misleading account, as to the date, and the Duke involved[5].
[edit] Notes
- ^ King Cnut: Emperor of the North
- ^ Ann Williams, Alfred P. Smyth, D. P. Kirby, A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain: England, Scotland, and Wales (1991), p. 231.
- ^ M. K. Lawson, Cnut: England's Viking King (2004), p. 105.
- ^ CdB Guided Tours Roman and Norman Notes
- ^ Pauline Stafford, Queen Emma and Queen Edith (1997), p. 23; cf. p. 235.
