Margaret I of Denmark
Queen of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden · Norway · Lived 1353 to 1412 · aged 59
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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, governing with what contemporaries called "farsighted tact and caution" - though religious chronicles painted her darkly for suppressing the Church, and rivals mocked her as "King Breechless." She died on 28 October 1412, having begun a Dano-Norwegian union that lasted four centuries.
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