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He was the son of Valdemar II of Denmark by his second wife, Berengaria of Portugal. He succeeded his brothers Eric IV Plovpenning and Abel of Denmark on the throne. Christopher was elected king upon the death of his older brother Abel in the summer of 1252. He was crowned at Lund Cathedral on Christmas Day 1252.
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Valdemar was the son of Canute Lavard, Duke of Schleswig, the chivalrous and popular eldest son of King Eric I of Denmark.Valdemar's father was murdered by King Magnus I of Sweden days before the birth of Valdemar; his mother, Ingeborg of Kiev, daughter of Grand Prince Mstislav I of Kiev and Christina Ingesdotter of Sweden, named him after her grandfather, Grand Prince Vladimir Monomakh of Kiev.
Abel's sister Sofie brokered a truce between Duke Abel and King Erik that held until 1252 when Erik was murdered while a guest at Duke Abel's residence at Schleswig. Abel was proclaimed King of Denmark at the Viborg Assembly (Danish:landsting) on November 1 , 1250 , after the death of his brother Eric IV.
However, her position at the wedding was already somewhat less fortunate than when the engagement was announced. Her father-in-law Birger Jarl himself married her uncle Abel's widow, Denmark's queen dowager Matilda of Holstein, and Sophia was thereby given the widow of her uncle Abel, pointed out as her father's murderer, as her mother-in-law. [1]
Eric V Klipping 1249–1286 King of Denmark r. 1259–1286: Abel 1218–1252 King of Denmark r. 1250–1252: 3 generations skipped: 4 generations skipped
Abel, the "King of Norway" fell in East Friesland. The Frisians killed king Abel and many of his troops on 12 June 1252 [ 2 ] Petrus Thaborita had the year as 1250 which is almost correct, and that Abel was king of Denmark.
