Margareta Hasbjörnsdatter or ''Margareta Asbjørnsdatter'' (11th century) was

Queen consort of Denmark This list of Danish consorts includes each queen consort (wife of a reigning king) and each prince consort (husband of a reigning queen). Due to unions (personal and real), the queens of 1380–1814 (effectively from 1406) were also queens of No ...

as the spouse of King Harald III. Margareta was the daughter of

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Asbjörn Ulfsen, possibly an uncle of her spouse; she would thereby have been her husband's cousin. No children are known from the marriage. The dates of her birth and death are unknown. A DNA test in 2003 dispelled the centuries-old legend that

Estrid Svendsdatter Estrid Svendsdatter of Denmark (''Estrith'', ''Astrith'': 990/997 – 1057/1073), was a Danish princess and titular queen, a Russian princess and, possibly, duchess of Normandy by marriage. She was the daughter of Sweyn Forkbeard and perhaps Gunh ...

was buried in the northeastern pier of the

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. The new theory is that the sign on the pier refers to Margareta Hasbjörnsdatter, who was also known as Estrid.

Literature

* Henning Dehn-Nielsen: Kings and Queens of Denmark. Kopenhaga: 2007. . * Kay Nielsen, Ib Askholm: Danmarks kongelige familier i 1000 år. 2007. .

References

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