Ingegerd Birgersdotter of Bjelbo

Ingegerd Birgersdotter
Queen consort of Sweden
Tenurec. 1200–1208
Bornc. 1180
Diedc. 1210/1230
SpouseSverker II of Sweden
IssueJohn I of Sweden
FatherBirger Brosa
MotherBrigida Haraldsdotter

Ingegerd (or Ingegärd) Birgersdotter of Bjelbo (or Bjälbo; ca. 1180–7 April after 1210, possibly 1230) was Queen of Sweden as the second wife of King Sverker II.

Ingegerd was born into one of Sweden's most powerful noble families, the Bjälbo family, as the child of the powerful Jarl Birger Brosa and the Queen Dowager Brigida Haraldsdotter; her mother was the child of King Harald Gille of Norway and had, in her first marriage, herself been the Queen of Sweden in 1160–1161.[1]

  1. ^ Hans Gillingstam, "Ingegerd", Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, https://sok.riksarkivet.se/Sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=11953

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