Canute V of Denmark - Issue

Issue

Not more than a year before his death, Canute married Helena of Sweden, but they had no children. Canute fathered a number of children out of wedlock:

  1. Saint Niels of Aarhus (died 1180); he lived as monk
  2. Knud
  3. Valdemar; he was Bishop of Schleswig and Prince-Archbishop of Bremen
  4. Brigitte (or Jutta); she married Bernhard, Count of Anhalt
  5. Hildegard; she married Jaromar I, Prince of Rugia
  6. Ingerd; she married Casimir II, Duke of Pomerania
  7. Another daughter; she married Bogislaw III of Schlawe

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