Ingegerd Knutsdatter of Denmark also called ''Ingerta'' and ''Ingerd'' (born between 1080 and 1085 – year of death unknown), was a Danish princess, daughter of King

Canute IV of Denmark Canute IV ( – 10 July 1086), later known as Canute the Holy () or Saint Canute (''Sankt Knud''), was King of Denmark from 1080 until 1086. Canute was an ambitious king who sought to strengthen the Danish monarchy, devotedly supported the ...

and Queen

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. She is regarded as the founding mother of the

House of Bjälbo The House of Bjälbo, also known as the House of Folkung ( or ), was a Swedish family that produced several medieval bishops, jarls and kings of Sweden. It also provided three kings of Norway and one king of Denmark in the 14th century. Na ...

of subsequent Swedish and Norwegian kings (beginning with two great-great-grandsons). At the deposition and murder of her father in 1086, her mother left Denmark and returned to Flanders with her son

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, while Ingegerd and her sister

Cæcilia Knudsdatter Cecilia Knudsdatter of Danmark (1081/85 – after 7 January 1131), 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 Flande ...

followed their paternal uncle

Eric I of Denmark Eric I ( – 10 July 1103), also known as Eric the Good or Eric Evergood (), was King of Denmark following his brother Olaf I Hunger in 1095. He was a son of Sweyn II. His mother's identity remains unknown. He married Boedil Thurgotsdatter. ...

and Boedil Thurgotsdatter, who became their foster parents, to Sweden. Both sisters married Swedish aristocrats: Cæcilia married Jarl Eric, and Ingegerd married

Folke the Fat Folke the Fat (), according to ''Gesta Danorum'' by the 12th century Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus, was the most powerful man in Sweden around 1100. He married Ingegerd Knutsdotter of Denmark, daughter of the Danish king Canute IVThe articl ...

and became the mother of Bengt Snivil. It is known that both of these marriages took place in Sweden.Dansk biografisk Lexikon / IV. Bind. Clemens - Eynden
/ref> Eric and Boedil returned to Denmark when Eric became monarch in 1095. Her sister Cecilia later returned to Denmark, but nothing suggests that Ingegerd did the same.

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