Margrethe I

The last monarch of the Estrid dynasty of Denmark , monarch of Norway , and first monarch of the Kalmar Union of Sweden . She was the queen of three countries and united the three countries to form the Kalmar Union .

There is controversy that she is not technically a queen because she used the title Frue ( Lady ) rather than Dronning ( Queen ) as a monarch. Still, the Pope at the time She was called 'Queen of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway' by Bonifacio IX and was considered a queen. Although from a different dynasty, a queen with the same name ascended the throne 600 years later and used the title Margrethe 'II'.

king of denmark King of Norway, youngest daughter of Valdemar IV and Helwig of Schleswig She married Haakon VI and gave birth to her only son, Oluf .

When her father, King Valdemar IV, died in 1375, she crowned Oluf as king of Denmark and she became regent of Denmark . When her husband, King Haakon VI, died in 1380, she crowned Oluf as king of Norway and served as regent of Norway as well. However, in 1387, when Oluf died young without an heir, she became the temporary monarch of both Denmark and Norway as a guardian . In 1388, Swedish nobles who were dissatisfied with King Albrecht of Sweden took her in.[1] In 1389, he defeated Albrecht's army and took the Swedish throne.

Margrethe I crowned her older sister Ingeborg's maternal grandson, Erik of Pomerania, as King of Norway in 1389. In 1396, she made Erik the King of Denmark and Sweden, and in 1397, she crowned Erik of Pomerania as King of Norway. The three countries combined to form the Kalmar Union. Margrethe I remained a co-ruler and virtually ruled the three countries alone until her death, taking on the position of Eric's co-ruler as regent, and died of the Black Death in Flensburg in 1412.

She appears as the main character in the movie Margrete: Queen of the North (Margrete den Første), which was screened in Denmark in 2021. The actor is Trine Dyrholm (born 1972). In the background of the fake Oluf incident, where he impersonated his son Oluf II, Oluf II, who was thought to be dead, returned and had a conflict with his successor, Erik of Pomerania, and the Kalmar Union formed a coalition between Norway and Erik of Pomerania, who supported the fake Oluf. It is divided into Denmark and Sweden, which support . Margrethe, who was skeptical about the fake Oluf at first, comes to believe that it is real as time goes by, but due to the existence of the fake Oluf, the Teutonic Knights promote the division of the Kalmar Union and break the alliance with the Kingdom of England to invade Sweden. When he received intelligence that this was his goal, he allowed the burning of the fake Oluf at the stake, as suggested by Erik, in order to prevent an invasion by the Teutonic Knights.