Riseberga Abbey, the burrial ground of queen Brigida.

Brigida Haraldsdotter (Swedish: Birgitta Haraldsdotter), (c. 1131-1208), was a medieval Swedish Queen consort, spouse of King Magnus (II) of Sweden.

Brigida Haraldsdotter was the illegitimate daughter of King Harald IV of Norway (1103-1136): her Irish name was the same name that her fathers' Irish mother, Brigida O'Brien (d. 1138) had. She was married to Prince Magnus Henriksen of Denmark, son of her stepmother Princess Ingrid Ragnvaldsdotter of Sweden and Ingrid's first husband, Prince Henrik Skadelår of Denmark. Her spouse claimed the Swedish throne through his mother in 1160-61, during which time she was called Queen Birgitta of Sweden for one year. After his death in 1161, she remarried the Swedish jarl Birger Brosa of Bjelbo. The daughter she had during her marriage to Brosa, Ingegerd Birgersdotter of Bjelbo, was to be Queen of Sweden in 1200. Brosa died in 1202. In 1205, a conflict broke out between her daughter queen Ingegerd and the Bjelbo family.

The dates of her birth and death are not known, though her daughter's birth year is set at c. 1180. The dates c. 1131-1208 have ben suggested, also that she, after the death of her second husband in 1202, retired to the Riseberga Nunnery (image at right) and was buried there.

Children

• Ingegerd Birgersdotter of Bjelbo, (ca 1180-1230), Queen of Sweden 1200-1208.

[edit] References

• Lars O. Lagerqvist, "Sverige och dess regenter under 1.000 år", (1976) ("Sweden and its rulers during 1000 years").
• Åke Ohlmarks: Alla Sveriges drottningar (All the queens of Sweden) (Swedish)

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