Margaret I of Denmark
Queen of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
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She married at ten, outlived husband and son, then ruled three kingdoms at once — not as consort or regent but as the operative power behind Scandinavia's century-long union. Enemies called her "King Breechless." Her subjects called her "Lady King."
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Born in March 1353 at Søborg Castle, the youngest daughter of Valdemar IV of Denmark, Margaret was married to Haakon VI of Norway at age ten in 1363, making her queen consort of Norway and briefly Sweden. She had one son, Olaf, in 1370. After both husband and son died, she was proclaimed queen regnant of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden in the late 1380s and founded the Kalmar Union, binding the Scandinavian kingdoms together against the Hanseatic League. Though her grandnephew Erik of Pomerania formally succeeded her in 1401, Margaret remained sole ruler in practice for eleven more years, governin…
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