Also spelt Cecilia. Twin to Ingegerd. Cecilia Knudsdatter of Denmark was a Danish Princess, daughter of Canute IV of Denmark and Adela of Flanders.
At the deposition and murder of her father in 1086, her mother left Denmark and returned to Flanders with her son Charles, while Cecilia and her sister Ingegerd followed their paternal uncle Eric I of Denmark and aunt Boedil Thurgotsdatter, who became their foster parents, to Sweden.
Cecilia married Jarl (Earl) Eric of Falster and Västergötland (c1080-c1145). They settled at Haraldsted at Ringsted. They had two sons Knud and Carl, Duke of Halland, and a daughter Inger Eriksdotter, who married Asser Rig.
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At the deposition and murder of her father in 1086, her mother left Denmark and returned to Flanders with her son Charles, while Cecilia and her sister Ingegerd followed their paternal uncle Eric I of Denmark and aunt Boedil Thurgotsdatter, who became their foster parents, to Sweden.
Cecilia married Jarl (Earl) Eric of Falster and Västergötland (c1080-c1145). They settled at Haraldsted at Ringsted. They had two sons Knud and Carl, Duke of Halland, and a daughter Inger Eriksdotter, who married Asser Rig.
C.Smith
Also spelt Cecilia. Twin to Ingegerd. Cecilia Knudsdatter of Denmark was a Danish Princess, daughter of Canute IV of Denmark and Adela of Flanders.
At the deposition and murder of her father in 1086, her mother left Denmark and returned to Flanders with her son Charles, while Cecilia and her sister Ingegerd followed their paternal uncle Eric I of Denmark and aunt Boedil Thurgotsdatter, who became their foster parents, to Sweden.
Cecilia married Jarl (Earl) Eric of Falster and Västergötland (c1080-c1145). They settled at Haraldsted at Ringsted. They had two sons Knud and Carl, Duke of Halland, and a daughter Inger Eriksdotter, who married Asser Rig.
C.Smith
At the deposition and murder of her father in 1086, her mother left Denmark and returned to Flanders with her son Charles, while Cecilia and her sister Ingegerd followed their paternal uncle Eric I of Denmark and aunt Boedil Thurgotsdatter, who became their foster parents, to Sweden.
Cecilia married Jarl (Earl) Eric of Falster and Västergötland (c1080-c1145). They settled at Haraldsted at Ringsted. They had two sons Knud and Carl, Duke of Halland, and a daughter Inger Eriksdotter, who married Asser Rig.
C.Smith
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