Queen of Sweden. Helena or Elin, possibly also known as Maer, Mär or Mö. Her birth and death years are approximate here and there has been much debate and various theories as to who she really was. King Ingold the Elder was allegedly married to a sister of King Hacon Red of Sweden (the Blood Swain) called Maiden (Mö) and Mare, possibly epithets for a young woman named Helen. In the 16th century King John III of Sweden had grave monuments made at Vreta and quite a few names got mixed up, incorrectly naming Helen as the queen of King Ingold the Younger of Sweden (her actual husband's nephew). The Swedish and Danish legend of Saint Helen, proclaimed so by Pope Alexander III, can be liberally interpreted to support the claims of some sources that she was the elder Ingold's queen consort. If so, she was the daughter of a Lord Guttorm in West Gothland and bore the King his son Reginald and at least three daughters before leaving the marriage to retire to a life of strict piety. The separation could explain why she was not buried with the family at Vreta, Sweden's first abbey built on land donated by Ingold and Helen. One of their daughters, Catherine, married Prince Beorn Ironside of Denmark, whose daughter became Queen Christina, as married to King Eric the Holy of Sweden. Beorn's early death was unjustly blamed on Helen who was assassinated because of it on her way to Götene Church, having just returned from her pilgrimage to Rome, probably no later than 1140. She had then been a widow for almost 30 years. In 1164 Sweden's first archbishop Stephen of Upsala, ceremoniously enshrined her bones in her own church, destroyed by fire with the rest of the town of Skövde 595 years later. Her feast day was July 31. One other daughter married the Great Prince of Kiev (Ukraine) and another was the celebrated Queen Margaret Colleen-of-Peace (Margareta Fredkulla) of Norway and Denmark. A special mention of Queen Helen is found on what amounts to her cenotaph in Vreta Church.