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• Also known as Valdemar I /Knudsen/, King of Denmark.
• First name Valdemar I Knudsen the Great, King of.
• He was born on January 14, 1130/1131 in Roskilde, Denmark.Sources 3, 4
• (Ruled ) in 1157-1182.Sources 1, 2
• He died on May 12, 1182, he was 52 years old.Sources 3, 4
• A child of Knut Lavard Eriksson and Ingeborg of Kiev
• This information was last updated on September 13, 2023.

Household of Valdemar I Knudsen the Great King of (Valdemar I Knudsen the Great, King of) added Denmark

He is married to Sofia of Minsk.

They got married in the year 1157, he was 26 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Sophie Princess of Denmark  1159-1208 
2. Canute VI King of Denmark  1163-1202
3. Maria Princess of Denmark  ± 1165-????
4. Margareta Princess of Denmark  ± 1167-± 1205
5. Valdemar II the Victorious King of added Denmark  1170-1241 
6. Ingeborg Princess of Denmark  1175-1236
7. Helena Princess of Denmark  ± 1176-1233 
8. Rikissa Valdemarsdotter Princess of Denmark  ± 1178-1220 
9. Walburgis Princess of Denmark  ????-± 1178

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Valdemar I of Denmark
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Valdemar I

1157 bracteate depicting Valdemar and his wife, Sophia
King of Denmark
Reign1154 – 12 May 1182
PredecessorSweyn III
SuccessorCanute VI
Born14 January 1131
Schleswig, Denmark
Died12 May 1182 (aged 51)
Vordingborg Castle, Vordingborg, Denmark
BurialSt. Bendt's Church, Ringsted, Denmark
ConsortSophia of Minsk
Issue
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Canute VI, King of Denmark
Valdemar II, King of Denmark
Ingeborg, Queen of France
Helena, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Richeza, Queen of Sweden
Names
Valdemar Knudsen
HouseEstridsen
FatherCanute Lavard, Duke of Schleswig
MotherIngeborg of Kiev
Valdemar I Knudsen (14 January 1131 – 12 May 1182), also known as Valdemar the Great (Danish: Valdemar den Store), was King of Denmark from 1154 until his death in 1182. The reign of King Valdemar I saw the rise of Denmark, which reached its medieval zenith under his son King Valdemar II.[1]

Valdemar den Store statue in Ringsted
Childhood
Valdemar was the son of Canute Lavard, Duke of Schleswig, the chivalrous and popular eldest son of King Eric I of Denmark. Valdemar's father was murdered by King Magnus I of Sweden days before the birth of Valdemar; his mother, Ingeborg of Kiev, daughter of Grand Prince Mstislav I of Kiev and Christina Ingesdotter of Sweden, named him after her grandfather, Grand Prince Vladimir Monomakh of Kiev.

Valdemar was raised at Ringsted in the court of Danish nobleman Asser Rig of Fjenneslev (c. 1080–1151). Asser was a member of the Hvide noble family and had been raised together with Valdemar's father Canute Lavard. Valdemar was raised together with Asser's sons, including Absalon (c. 1128–1201), who would become an Archbishop and go to battle with Valdemar, and Esbern Snare (1127–1204), who was a royal chancellor and crusader. Esbern and Absalon had a close relationship and formed an alliance with Valdemar.[2][3][4][5]

Struggle for the throne
In 1146, when Valdemar was fifteen years old, King Eric III of Denmark abdicated and a civil war erupted. Valdemar was a possible contender to the throne. The other pretenders to the throne were: Sweyn III Grathe, the son of King Eric II of Denmark, and Canute V, the son of Magnus I of Sweden, both of whom declared themselves King of Denmark in 1146. The civil war lasted the better part of ten years. In 1154, Valdemar joined with Canute and was recognized as co-king along with Canute. In July 1157, a temporary compromise was struck in which the three agreed to divide the country among themselves as co-regents in shifting alliances.

Canute was killed at the Bloodfeast of Roskilde in August 1157. Sweyn was defeated by Valdemar in the Battle of Grathe Heath (Slaget på Grathe Hede) on 23 October 1157. Sweyn was killed during flight, supposedly by a group of peasants who stumbled upon him as he was fleeing from the battlefield. Valdemar, having outlived all his rival pretenders, became the sole king of Denmark.[6][7]

Sole reign
In 1158, Absalon was elected bishop of Roskilde, and King Valdemar made him his chief advisor. The king reorganized and rebuilt war-torn Denmark. He strengthened the Dannevirke fortifications to the south, He built Sønderborg Castle as a fortified fortress, constructed on an islet in the Als Strait that later was connected to Als Island.[8][9] He reinvented Viking raiding tactics of old to deal with the Wends to the south, which was now optimized for heavy cavalry; this use of amphibious assault was further improved upon by his successor Canute VI.[10]

At Absalon's instigation, he declared war upon the Wends who were raiding the Danish coasts. They occupied Pomerania and the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea and were a definite threat to the Danes in the Baltic as the Wends outnumbered the Danes more than two to one. So the Danes soon began raiding the Wendish coasts in turn; this culminated in the conquest of Rügen, which was used as another base to raid and later conquer more Wendish territory. Danish influence had therefore reached both Pomerania and the Obotrite confederacy, both being raided routinely by the Danes. Around the year 1170, a smaller contingent of the Danish fleet (headed by Valdemar and Absalon) ventured past the mouth of the Oder, where they were ambushed by a Wendish army and fleet under Casimir, at the Julin bridge (modern-day Wolin) hoping to end Danish raiding. But the Danes outsmarted the Wends and smashed their army and fleet, primarily due to the Danish ships also carrying cavalry.[11] In 1175, King Valdemar built Vordingborg Castle as a defensive fortress and as a base from which to launch further raids against the German coast.[12]

In 1180, as unrest spread throughout the rich province of Scania, the people demanded that Valdemar replace the "foreign" governors from Jutland, and instead install nobility from one of the 'Skåneland' provinces who traditionally ruled them. They also completely refused to pay church tithes. When Valdemar refused their demands, they rose up, saying they would pay neither taxes nor church tithes. Their numbers were so large that Valdemar not only gathered his own levies but also levies from Blekinge. The armies met at the Battle of Dysiaa, where Valdemar crushed them, and after this they once more paid taxes. But even though the entire peasant force surrendered, they still refused to pay tithes, so instead Valdemar had them bring generous gifts and donations to the church. They would pay no tithes but they would pay nonetheless, the only point he conceded were the governors, who were replaced by Scanians.[13] This concession to the Scanians, that a Jute rules in Jutland and Rugian in Rügen, was then optimized for the rest of the Danish realm. This assisted immensely with keeping the peace within the kingdom, and the later extended realm.

Issue
Valdemar married Sophia of Minsk (c. 1141–1198), the daughter of Richeza of Poland, dowager queen of Sweden, from her marriage to Prince Volodar of Minsk. She was the half-sister of King Canute V of Denmark. Valdemar and Sophia had the following children:

Sophia (1159–1208), married Siegfried III, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde.
Canute VI of Denmark (1163–1202)
Maria (born c. 1165), became a nun at Roskilde (1188).
Margaret (c. 1167 - c. 1205), became a nun at Roskilde (1188).
Valdemar II of Denmark (1170–1241)
Ingeborg (1174–1237), married King Philip II of France.
Helena (c.1176 – 1233), married William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
Richeza (c.1178 – 1220), married King Eric X of Sweden.
Walburgis (d. 1177), married Bogusław I, Duke of Pomerania.
After Valdemar's death, Sophia married Landgrave Louis III of Thuringia.

Notes
"Valdemar Den Store 1131–1182". Danmarks Historien. Archived from the original on 5 July 2011. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
"Asser (Rig), 1151". Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
"Asser Rig". Den Store Danske, Gyldendal. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
"Absalon". Den Store Danske, Gyldendal. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
Bradley, S. A. J. (12 December 2008). N.F.S. Grundtvig, A Life Recalled: An Anthology of Biographical Source-Texts. ISD LLC. pp. 464, 578. ISBN 978-87-7934-007-7.
"Blood Feast of Roskilde". The Post Grad Chronicles. 2 December 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
"Slaget på Grathe Hede 1157". Danmarks Historien. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
Otto Norn, Jørgen Paulsen and Jørgen Slettebo, Sønderborg Slot. Historie og bygning, G.E.C. Gad forlag, 1963.
"Sønderborg Castle". kongeligeslotte.dk. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
Pratt, Fletcher (1950). The Third King. New York: William Sloane Associates, INC. pp. 101–105. OCLC 1350957.
Pratt, Fletcher (1950). The Third King. New York: William Sloane Associates, Inc. pp. 108–110. OCLC 1350957.
About Vordingborg Castle (Museerne.dk)
Pratt, Fletcher (1950). The Third King. New York: William Sloane Associates, Inc. pp. 130–131.
External links
Media related to Valdemar I of Denmark at Wikimedia Commons
Valdemar I of Denmark at Find a Grave
Valdemar den Store Kings of Denmark, DK
Bain, Robert Nisbet (1911). "Valdemar I." . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). pp. 840–841.

Valdemar the Great
House of Estridsen
Born: 14 January 1131 Died: 12 May 1182
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Eric III
King of Denmark
1154–1182
with Sweyn III (1146–1157)
Canute V (1146–1157)Succeeded by
Canute VI
Vacant
Title last held by
MagnusDuke in Southern Jutland
ca. 1152–1154Vacant
Title next held by
Christopher
vte
Monarchs of Denmark
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House of Estridsen
Burials at St. Bendt's Church, Ringsted
1131 births
1182 deaths
12th-century kings of Denmark
Dukes of Denmark
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