Erik (Svendsson) Svendsøn (abt. 1055 - 1103)

Born about 1055 in Slangerup, Frederiksborg, Denmark

Ancestors

Husband of Bodil Thrugotsdatter — married 1086 in Roskilde, Denmark

Descendants

Died 10 Jul 1103 at about age 48 in Isle of Cyprus

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Biografi

Erik Ejegod var søn af Svend Estridsen og en ukendt frille. Han var den fjerde af Svend Estridsens sønner, som blev konge i Danmark og regerte 1095 – 10. juli 1103.^[1]

Erik besluttede i 1103 at drage på pilgrimsfærd til Jerusalem, han nåede dog aldrig til Jerusalem, men døde på Cypern – vistnok ved Pafos, hvor han blev begravet. Hans gravsted er ukendt.

Hans dronning, Bodil, fortsatte rejsen til Det hellige Land, hvor hun skal være død på Oliebjerget af sygdom.

Med "Dronning Bodil" hade han barnen

• Knud Lavard Eriksøn
• Bodil Eriksdatter

Utanför äktenskapet skall han också haft barnen;

• Harald Kesja
• Ragnhild
• Benedikt
• Erik Emune

Biography

Konge Erik I Svendsson was a member of the aristocracy in Europe.

KING OF DENMARK 1095 TO 1103

Erik Ejegod (Eric the Good) was an illegitimate son of Svend Estridsen/Sweyn II Estridsson.

He married Bodil/Boedil Thurgotsdatter and it is believed they had two children;

• Knud Lavard Eriksøn
• Bodil Eriksdatter

He also had the (assumed) illegitimate children;

• Harald Kesja
• Ragnhild
• Benedikt
• Erik Emune

He fought the Venders, who in Olav’s time of governing had made the Danish waters insecure. He succeeded in founding an archbishop’s headquarter for The Nordic Countries, independent of Hamburg-Bremen. The archbishop’s headquarter was placed in Lund in 1103.

He was the first king to go on pilgrimage after Jerusalem was conquered. Unfortunately, he only reached Cyprus, where he died in the summer of 1103. Queen Bodil continued to Jerusalem and died on The Oil Mountain.

Sources

1. ↑ https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Ejegod Danish Wikipedia, Erik Ejegod

• http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedidex.php/n=royal?denmark
• http://www.danishnet.com/info.php/history/danish-monarchy-37.html
• http://www.danmarkskonger.dk/king12.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_I_of_Denmark
• John Morby, Dynasties of the World: a chronological and genealogical handbook (Oxford, Oxfordshire, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1989), page 149.
• Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 16.
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p10543.htm#i105429