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Persoonlijke gegevens Sofia of MINSK 

• Zij is geboren in het jaar 1140 in Denmark.

  Let op: Getrouwd (??-??-1116) voordat geboren (??-??-1140).

  Let op: Leeftijd bij trouwen (??-??-1116) lag beneden de 16 jaar (0).

• Titel: Queen of Denmark
• (Ancestry) : House of Rurikid.
• Zij is overleden op 5 mei 1198 in Denmark, zij was toen 58 jaar oud.
• Zij is begraven in het jaar 1198 in St Bendt, Ringsted, Vestsjalland, Denmark.
• Een kind van Volodar Glebovich of MINSK en Richeza of POLAND

Gezin van Sofia of MINSK

(1) Zij is getrouwd met Valdemar I of DENMARK.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1116.

Kind(eren):

1. Maria of DENMARK  1165-????
2. Margaret of DENMARK  1167-????
3. Sophia of DENMARK  1159-1208 
4. Richeza of DENMARK  1180-1220 
5. Ingeborg of DENMARK  1175-1236
6. Helen of DENMARK  1177-1233 
7. Valdemar II of DENMARK  1170-1241 
8. Knut VI of DENMARK  1163-1202

(2) Zij heeft/had een relatie met Ludwig von THURINGIA.

Notities over Sofia of MINSK

Sophia of Minsk (or Sophia of Polotsk) (c. 1140 - 5 May 1198) was a Danish medieval queen consort as the spouse of King Valdemar I of Denmark, and later a landgravine of Thuringia.

Sophia was the daughter of Richeza of Poland, Dowager Queen of Sweden, from her marriage to a man called "Valador" King in Poloni Land. Several speculations have been put forward as to exactly who her father was, but his identity is still uncertain. It is guessed to have been Prince Volodar of Minsk or Prince Vladimir of Halicz. Most probably it was Volodar (Valadar in Belarusian) of Minsk, who united the principalities of Minsk, Polotsk, and Hrodna under his rule, and had military interests in the Baltic region (for example, his military campaign in Northern Poland in 1159).

Sophia was the half-sister of Canute V of Denmark. After her mother's marriage to the Swedish king, she followed her to Sweden and was raised at the Swedish court. She was betrothed to Valdemar in 1154 as a form of alliance between Denmark and Sweden. As she had no property in Denmark, she was promised 1/8 of Canute's estates. She left Sweden and arrived in Denmark at the time of the engagement (1154), but as she was not considered old enough to marry, she was given to the custody of a woman named Bodil. She was married to Valdemar in Viborg in 1157, three years later.

Sophia is described as beautiful, dominant and cruel. According to legend, she murdered Valdemar's mistress Tove and injured his sister Kirsten, but this is not confirmed. She was widowed in 1182. Sophia received a proposal from, and married, Louis III, Landgrave of Thuringia in about 1184, and was escorted to the border by her son and a grand entourage. She was repudiated in 1190 and returned to Denmark.

After Valdemar's death, Sophia remarried to Landgrave Louis III of Thuringia. This marriage remained childless.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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