Background
Ingegerd Haraldsdotter was the daughter of King Harald Hardrada of Norway and Elisiv of Kiev and thereby the great granddaughter of King Olof Skötkonung of Sweden and the granddaughter of Yaroslav the Wise, Grand Prince of Kiev.
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Career
She was first married to Prince Olof of Denmark, in approximately 1067, in a marriage arranged as a part of the peace treaty between Denmark and Norway. To further strengthen the alliance, Olof"s half-sister, Ingerid of Denmark, married King Olav Kyrre, who was the brother of Queen Ingegerd. Ingegerd became queen of Denmark when Olof became king in 1086.
He became king in 1105, making her queen a second time.
There is no known issue from the second marriage. She was widowed in 1118.
The years of her birth and death are not confirmed, but she is known to have survived her second spouse.
