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. She is regarded as the founding mother of the

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of subsequent Swedish and Norwegian kings (beginning with two great-great-grandsons). At the deposition and murder of her father in 1086, her mother left Denmark and returned to Flanders with her son

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, while Ingegerd and her sister

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followed their paternal uncle Eric I of Denmark and Boedil Thurgotsdatter, who became their foster parents, to Sweden. Both sisters married Swedish aristocrats: Cæcilia married Jarl Eric, and Ingegerd married

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/ref> Eric and Boedil returned to Denmark when Eric became monarch in 1095. Her sister Cecilia later returned to Denmark, but nothing suggests that Ingegerd did the same.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ingegerd Knudsdatter 1080s births Danish princesses 11th-century Swedish people Year of death unknown House of Bjelbo 11th-century Danish women 11th-century Danish people Daughters of kings