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302:('our servant'). She was buried in the abbey church, which brought royal gifts of property for the abbey. A year after her death, her spouse died and her daughter became regent of Denmark. In 1377, queen Margaret successfully asked the pope for permission to rebury her mother at Sorø, though this plan was never realized.
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There is little information about queen Helvig. She is not mentioned to have been politically active or as having played any personal role in any aspect: she would, for example had been expected to serve as regent during
Valdemar's pilgrimage in 1346, but there is no mention that she did. Until the
283:, which described the love affair between the queen and a knight. This story is not confirmed. Another theory claims, that it was queen Helvig who separated from king Valdemar because of his adultery with his mistress Tove, and that she moved to
240:. In the late 1330s, her brother made an alliance with King Christopher's son, Valdemar IV, against his uncle Gerhard, and arranged a marriage between Helvig and Valdemar IV in connection to this. She was to bring the pawned province of
229:. Her date of birth is not known, but she and her brother were children at the time of her father's death in 1325, and she is estimated to have been born around the year 1320.
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in 1355. None of these theories have ever been confirmed, and the truth of their separation is unknown.
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Her brother had contended for the Danish throne (as
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225:. She was also a descendant of King
848:Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
776:Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-LĂĽneburg
320:Margaret (1345–1350); betrothed to
378:Dansk Biografisk Leksikon, 1933–34
244:, one quarter of the territory of
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818:Caroline Matilda of Great Britain
363:(Danish history) (1989) (Swedish)
294:, where she eventually died as a
782:Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel
368:När hände vad i Nordens historia
140:Ingeborg, Duchess of Mecklenburg
715:Elizabeth of Holstein-Rendsburg
702:Ingeborg Magnusdotter of Sweden
425:Elizabeth of Holstein-Rendsburg
736:†‡ (1445–1448 & 1449–1481)
332:Henry III, Duke of Mecklenburg
322:Henry III, Duke of Mecklenburg
219:Adelaide of Holstein-Rendsburg
201:. She was the mother of Queen
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340:Catherine (1349); died young
315:Christopher, Duke of Lolland
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136:Christopher, Duke of Lolland
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882:‡ also Queen of Sweden
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