Margaret was the daughter of King Eric IX of Sweden and his Danish Queen Christina. In 1189, she married the Norwegian King Sverre. She is only sporadically mentioned in history during her tenure as queen; primarily in connection with an attempt by Nikolas Arnesson to become Bishop of Stavanger. In the sagas, Queen Margaret is portrayed as suspect and intrigant [1]
She became a widow in 1202, returned to her native Sweden, and retired to her estates in Västergötland and Värmland. Departing Norway, she had to leave her daughter Kristina Sverresdotter behind against her will. She spent two years in Sweden and returned to Norway in 1204.
On 1 January 1204, two days after she had returned to Norway, her stepson, King Haakon III of Norway, died with obvious symptoms of poisoning. Margaret became a suspect of the crime, and one of her servants tried to prove her innocence in a trial by ordeal which failed. The servant was drowned and Margareta fled back to Sweden.
Margaret returned to Norway in 1209 for her daughter's wedding. Her daughter married co-regent Filip Simonsson, the Bagler party candidate to the throne of Norway. Margaret took part in the wedding. Immediately after the wedding she became ill, and died a few weeks later.[2]
In popular cultureedit
Lia Boysen portrays a fictionalized Margaret in the 2016 film The Last King. Margaret is portrayed as having an affair with a fictional Bagler aristocrat and poisons Haakon in a conspiracy to become queen again.
Referencesedit
^Margrete Eriksdotter – utdypning (Store norske leksikon)
^Margrete Eriksdotter – utdypning (Store norske leksikon)
Other sourcesedit
Magerøy, H. Soga om birkebeinar og baglar (1988)
Imsen, SteinarVåre dronninger: fra Ragnhild Eriksdatter til Sonja (Oslo: 1991)
Koht, HalvdanNorske dronningar (in "The Old Norse Sagas", 1931)
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