Kilde: Dansk Biografisk Lexicon Carl Fr. Bricka Project Runeberg (1887-1905) Erik Lam, --1146, king, was a son of the Jutlander Hakon, Sunnivas son, one of the leaders among the revengers of Knud Lavard's murder, and Ragnhild, illegitimate daughter of Erik Ejegod. When Erik Emune was killed at the Thing 18. Sept. 1137, was E. present and run up with drawn sword for the defense of the king , but the murderer Sorte Plov cried to him: «Put your sword in the sheath, fat bacon fell into your pot anyway!». E. became as the eldest of the pretenders elected king, but he had to fight his cousin Oluf, Harald Kesjas son, who several times settled in Skåne and attacked Sjælland, until he after a few year's struggle was defeated at Thiute Aa (river) in Skåne. Although E. was very brave, he showed in his rule of the kingdom no strength or character, he therefore was rightfully given the byname Lam or "den spage" (weak). The Wends harrassed the country and even forced him to take flight during an attack at Storebælt, where he left his ship in a lurch; and he gave up a planned expedition to the Wends. He continued the indulgent politics of Erik Emune towards Germany's demands about supremacy in Denmark, and influenced by the Germans he married in 1144 Luitgard, a daughter of Rudolf,markgraff of Soltwedel and graff of Stade, and a sister of Hartvig, domprovst(rural dean), later archbishop of Bremen. Luitgard caused scandal by her relaxed customs and her extravagance, in which she made E. take part. He was inconstant and without self-confidence and felt inadequate in his rule, and he gave it up in order to become monk in Sct. Knud's Kloster in Odense. He died shortly after, 27. Aug. 1146. In his marriage he had no children, he had an illegitimate son, Magnus. Luitgard later married graf Herman of Winzenburg and was killed together with her husband in 1152. Suhm, Hist. af Danmark V. Ræder, Danmark under Svend Estridsen og hans Sønner. translated from Johannes C. H. R. Steenstrup's Danish text: grethe bachmann. Luitgard , --1152, queen, was a daughter of markgraf Rudolf I of Soltwedel (d. 1124), who for a time was also graf of Stade and Ditmarsken, and Richardis (b. 1151), daughter of a Magdeburg borggreve.(graf of castle) L. first married the Saxon Pfalzgraf Frederik of Sommerscheburg (d. 1162) and had with him a son Albert and a daughter Adelheid; but since she was a child of her husband's sibling, the church had the marriage annulled, whereafter her brother domprovst (rural dean)Hartvig of Bremen arranged a marriage to king Erik Lam (ab. 1143). This marriage was short and childless, and L. was remembered in Denmark as a loose queen who even seduced har husband to ill-timed extravagance. After Erik Lam's death(1146) L. married the third time, this time to the violent graf Herman, who caused by a kill had lost his main castle, the strong Winzenburg, but now at this point strengthened his power and at last, by the support of king Conrad III, forced bishop Bernhard I of Hildesheim to once again endowe him with Winzenburg (1150). Here was Herman however murdered by the bishop's men, and together with him L., who was pregnant (29. Jan. 1152). Herman and L. had 3 daughters, from which the middle probably was married to Buris. (Buris Henriksen, a son of Henrik Skadelår). Suhm, Hist. af Danmark V. Dehio, Hartwich v. Stade (Bremen 1872). Koken, Die Winzenburg u. deren Vorbesitzer (Hildesh. 1833). Lüntzel, Gesch. d. Diocese u. Stadt Hildesheim I (Hildesh. 1858). Kilde: Dansk Biografisk Lexicon Carl Fr. Bricka Project Runeberg (1887-1905)
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