Ingeborg Eriksdottir of Norway was a medieval Norwegian princess and by marriage a Swedish princess, Duchess of Uppland, Öland and Finland, with a seat in the regency government of her nephew, Magnus IV of Sweden.
Background
Ingeborg was the daughter of King Eric II of Norway and Isabel Bruce. Ingeborg"s half-sister, Margaret I of Scotland, died before Ingeborg was born. She was probably named after her father"s mother, also Ingeborg Eriksdotter, a Danish princess.
Her father, Eric II, died on 15 July 1299, when Ingeborg was one or two years old.
Career
She and Marjorie were the same age, but never metropolitan Her mother never remarried. In 1300, Ingeborg"s mother arranged her three-year-old daughter"s engagement to Jon Magnusson, Earl of Orkney (died 1311).
The marriage never took place.
lieutenant is unclear whether the engagement was called off or if he died before her coming of age. Ingeborg Eriksdottir thus married the third son of King Magnus III of Sweden, while fifteen-year-old Ingeborg Haakonsdatter married Magnus" second son, and King Birger of Sweden became the brother-in-law of the two cousins Ingeborg.
Her dower included the island of Öland, whereby she was occasionally mentioned as Duchess of Öland. In 1316, she had a son who probably died young.
Number one knows for certain how the two brothers died.
They either starved to death or were murdered. The "two Duchesses Ingeborg" are thus mentioned once in 1318 as acting for the government alongside Mats Kettilmundsson. Her sister-in-law did remain a powerful politician for decades.