Kilde: Dansk Biografisk Lexicon Carl Fr. Bricka Project Runeberg (1887-1905) Henrik Skadelaar, --1134, royal descendant, was a son of Svend Estridsen's son Svend, who in 1104 in a forced manner craved for becoming king in Denmark, but died on his way to Viborg Thing. This ambition was inherited by H. Envy and hatred were ruling his ways when he saw he was shadowed by others, and the handicap which gave him his byname, might even more have urged him to bitterness. King Niels' queen, Margrethe Fredkulla, who by arranging various marriages in the royal house tried to secure the peace, also wanted to win H.; he married Margrethe's brother's daughter Ingerid,and at the same time Knud Lavard married her sister's daughter Ingeborg. The queen attached much importance to these marriages and gave each bride a fourth of her Swedish paternal property.In this way H. achieved property in Sweden, which was later the starting point of his son Magnus' demand of the Swedish kingdom ; in Denmark H. owned among other things - as seen from his son's gift-letter to Tvis Kloster - widespread property in the Holstebro-area. H. is especially known for his violent hatred against his cousin Knud Lavard, whose honour and power caught his envious eyes. Various events increased this enmity.Ingerid was fed up with her husband and went away with a lover, and H. had to travel far and wide before he caught her at Aalborg; strangely enough he blamed Knud for this. He wanted Knud's death and he urged the weak king Niels to summon Knud to a meeting in Ribe in order to give an answer to the accusations of having done harm to the Danish king and his kingdom, but when Knud's proud answer disarmed his enemies, H. tried once more to urge Niels against Knud. H. was the real originator of the conspiracy against Knud, and he became the leader of the delibarations. H. drove the more kind-hearted Magnus to assassination; and when Hakong Jyde left the conspirators, H. forced him to swear an oath not to reveal anything. H. followed Magnus to the bloody misdeed in Haraldsted Forest; and as soon Magnus had taken Knud by surprise and cleaved his head, H. came to and threw his spear through him. (7. Jan. 1131). When king Niels after this was forced by the Zealand thing-men to send Magnus in exile, H. and others made the old king call back his son and thereby he provoced the most violent civil war, which had ever been fought in Denmark. During the sudden upheavals H. probably hoped for the title as king; but in the final battle at Fodevig (4. Juni 1134) both he and Magnus and many of their followers were killed. H. left several sons: Magnus and Regnald played for a short time a role in Sweden, Knud and Buris were both connected to Denmark's history. H. Olrik, Knud Lavard. Hans Olrik. Ingerid, --1134--, a daughter of the Swedish king Inge I's son Regnald, who was first married to Henrik Skadelaar.Her paternal aunt Margrethe Fredkulla, who arranged the marriage gave her a part of her Swedish property as dowage. I. gave birth to several sons, but caused by Henrik's unpleasant character and her own loose morals the marriage was unhappy. Ingerid took flight dressed as a man with one of the housecarls, but Henrik persued them and found her in Aalborg in a slave woman's clothes and brought her back home. After his fall (1134) she married the Norwegian king Harald Gille, with whom she had the son Inge. When Harald was murdered (1136), she succeeded in having her son Inge celebrated king in the southern Norway, while his halfbrother Sigurd Mund was celebrated in Trøndelagen (1137). After this she married the mighty Ottar Birting; but he was assassinated by one of king Sigurd's men, whereafter she had a son Orm with a man named Iver Sneis; Orm later became one of his halfbrother Inge's trusted men.Finally she married for the fourth time Arne at Stodreim, which was now called «Kongsmaag». They had 3 sons, Inge, Nicolaus, famous as bishop in Oslo and a ruthless party leader, and Philip, and a daughter Margrethe. I. was said to have participated in the assassination of Sigurd Mund (1155), but had hardly any great influence in general. With Erling Skakke and her husband she fled after Inge's fall back to Denmark (1161),but returned to Norway again and died there. Munch, Det norske Folks Hist. II. Hans Olrik. Buris (Henriksen), --1167(?), Prince. He was a son of Henrik Skadelaar, and a son's son's son of Svend Estridsen. Although his father had been one of Knud Lavard's killers , he was on Valdemar I's side in the civil wars and played an important role in this. Valdemar appointed him hertug (duke) of Sønderjylland. Later he took part in the expeditions to the Wends with distinction.But the king always had some suspicions about him, since he as a member of the royal family might wish for the royal power for himself or his descendants, and this suspicion grew worse, when B. in 1166 was unwilling to acknowledge Valdemar's son as heir to the throne. At last he agreed in this, if his duchy was made hereditary. The king also suspected that B. was connected to his Norwegian enemies, with whom he was related on his mother's side, and he let him take prisoner for life in 1167. This is what Saxe said; but German history writers tell that he was terribly mauled and later killed. In the old folksongs about his illegal relation to the king's sister "liden Kirsten" it seems that he is mixed with a brother of queen Sophie, Boleslaus or Burislaus. He had founded Tvis kloster and been married to a daughter of Erik Lam's widow in her third marriage with a Graf of Winzeburg. Saxo. Suhm, Hist. af Danmark VII. Grundtvig, Danmarks gl. Folkeviser III, 82 f. J. Kinch. Kilde: Dansk Biografisk Lexicon Carl Fr. Bricka Project Runeberg (1887-1905)
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