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Agnes of Denmark
Agnes of Denmark (1249 – after 1290) was the youngest daughter of Eric IV of Denmark and his wife Jutta of Saxony. She was the official founder of the St. Agnes' Priory, Roskilde, becoming prioress there.
Life.
Agnes lost her father at the age of one, and after her mother left for remarriage in Germany, she and her sisters Ingeborg, Sophia and Jutta remained to be raised at the court of her paternal uncle, the king of Denmark. The four sisters
She married King Eric V of Denmark at Schleswig on 11 November 1273. The marriage was probably agreed upon during King Eric's captivity in Brandenburg by Agnes' father from 1261 to 1264. Tradition claims that the King of Denmark was released from captivity on his promise to marry Agnes without a dowry. Denmark and Brandenburg, however, had a long tradition of dynastic marriages between them.
Life Regency.
In 1286, she became a Queen dowager and the Regent of Denmark during the minority of her son. The details