Ingeborg Magnusdotter (1277 – 5 April or 15 August 1319) was Queen of Denmark by marriage to King Eric VI. She was the daughter of King Magnus Ladulås of Sweden and Helvig of Holstein.
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Life
Ingeborg was born a daughter of King Magnus Ladulås of Sweden and Helvig of Holstein.
In 1288, she was engaged to marry to King Eric Menved of Denmark, a marriage which took place in Helsingborg in 1296. The marriage was as a part of dynastic policies: in 1298, her brother king Birger of Sweden married her husband's sister, Princess Martha of Denmark. The dispensation necessary for the marriage was not obtained until 1297 because of the conflict between her spouse and the archbishop Jens Grand.
Queen
Queen Ingeborg was described as beautiful and tender; songs describe how she asked for a prison amnesty at her wedding, and contemporary songs both in Denmark and Sweden praise her for her compassion and sense of justice. She was a popular queen in Denmark, where she was referred to as "gode Frue" or 'the Good Lady'.
There is no information that she ever played any political role. Her husband was the ally of her eldest brother, King Birger, and her husband's sister queen Martha of Sweden during the Swedish throne conflicts: they received their son in 1306 after the Håtuna games, and later Birger and Martha themselves as refugees after the Nyköping Banquet in 1318.