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Euphemia of Sweden

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254:, invaded Scania in 1322–23, Mecklenburg betrayed her and the alliance was broken. Eventually, the affair of Euphemia's marriage led to a conflict between Ingeborg and the governments of Sweden and Norway, which led to the demise of Ingeborg's political position in the guardian governments. The marriage took place anyway, after a fifteen-year engagement. Euphemia did not lack influence in Sweden. She is known to have acted as the witness of seals in several documents. In 1335, when King Magnus appointed Nils Abjörnsson (Sparre av Tofta) to 278:. In Germany, Euphemia's life as a Duchess consort of Mecklenburg does not appear to have affected her status in Sweden, as she was still a political factor there and her name was still placed on various documents. She was the mistress of a very expensive ducal court. In 1340–41, she convinced Magnus to grant renewed trading privileges in Norway to the Hanseatic cities of Mecklenburg, Rostock and Wismar. On 15 April 1357, she granted her the estates Hammar and Farthses to 38: 274:(1318 – 2 February 1379), a North-German lord deeply interested in obtaining some power in Scandinavia. Later the same year, the couple returned to Sweden with Rudolf of Saxony and Henry of Holstein to be present at the coronation of her brother and sister-in-law 286:. Her death year is not known, but she is confirmed dead 16 June 1370, when her widower made a vicaria to her memory. Euphemia lived to see her own second son depose her brother from the Swedish throne, and ascend as King 211:. Their mother Ingeborg had a seat in the guardian government as well as the position of an independent ruler of her own fiefs, and played an important part during their childhood and adolescence. 1281: 282:
following the deaths of her half-brothers Haakon and Canute in 1350. She was last confirmed alive 27 October 1363, when she gave up the ownership of her dower estate in
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would assist Ingeborg in the conquest of Scania. This was approved by the council of Norway but not Sweden. When Ingeborg's forces under command of
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The 24 July 1321 marriage contract for Euphemia was signed at
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Ingeborg, Duchess of Bavaria, Countess of Holstein-Rendsburg
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At the time of her death, she had five surviving children:
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Matilda of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg
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Index

Duchess consort of Mecklenburg

Coat of arms
Bjälbo Dynasty
Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg
Issue
Henry III, Duke of Mecklenburg
Albert, King of Sweden
Magnus I, Duke of Mecklenburg
Ingeborg, Duchess of Bavaria, Countess of Holstein-Rendsburg
House
House of Bjälbo
Eric, Duke of Södermanland
Ingeborg of Norway
Swedish
Duchess consort of Mecklenburg
Sweden
Norway
Albert of Sweden
Eric Magnusson
Magnus Ladulås
Ingeborg
Haakon V of Norway
Magnus Eriksson
Birger of Sweden
personal union
Bohus
Bohuslän
Scania
Mecklenburg

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