{{Short description|Ruthenian princess (fl. 1137)}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Ingeborg of Kiev | birth_date = | house = Monomakhovichi (by birth)<br> House of Estridsen (by marriage) | father = Mstislav I of Kiev | mother = Christina Ingesdotter of Sweden | spouse = Canute Lavard | issue = Margaret Hvitaledr <br> Christine, Queen of Norway <br> Catherine, Duchess of Mecklenburg <br> Valdemar I of Denmark }} '''Ingeborg Mstislavna of Kiev''' (fl. 1137) was a Ruthenian princess, married to the Danish prince Canute Lavard of Jutland.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Raffensperger |first=Christian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OyrnEAAAQBAJ&dq=ingeborg+mstislav&pg=PT95 |title=Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus' in the Medieval World, 988–1146 |date=2012-03-12 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-06854-4 |language=en}}</ref>
She was the daughter of Grand Prince Mstislav I of Kiev and Christina Ingesdotter of Sweden and was in about 1117 married to Canute in a marriage arranged by her maternal aunt, the Danish queen Margaret Fredkulla.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bergsagel |first1=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DmpsCwAAQBAJ&dq=ingeborg+mstislav&pg=PA123 |title=Of Chronicles and Kings: National Saints and the Emergence of Nation States in the High Middle Ages |last2=Riis |first2=Thomas |last3=Hiley |first3=David |date=2015-12-09 |publisher=Museum Tusculanum Press |isbn=978-87-635-4260-9 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> In 1130, she tried to prevent Canute from going to the gathering where he was to be murdered, but without success.
She gave birth to their son, Valdemar I of Denmark, in January 1131, after her husband's death.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Hunyadi |first1=Zsolt |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1m4fbJyQ4pkC&dq=Ingeborg+Mstislavna+of+Kiev&pg=PA482 |title=The Crusades and the Military Orders: Expanding the Frontiers of Medieval Latin Christianity |last2=Laszlovszky |first2=J¢zsef |last3=Studies |first3=Central European University Dept of Medieval |date=2001-01-01 |publisher=Central European University Press |isbn=978-963-9241-42-8 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bjerg |first1=Line |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sNYKEAAAQBAJ&dq=ingeborg+mstislav&pg=PA394 |title=From Goths to Varangians: Communication and Cultural Exchange between the Baltic and the Black Sea |last2=Lind |first2=John H. |last3=Sindbæk |first3=Søren Michael |date=2013-08-13 |publisher=Aarhus Universitetsforlag |isbn=978-87-7124-425-0 |language=en}}</ref> In 1137, she refused to support the suggestion of Christiern Svendsen to proclaim her son monarch after the death of her late husband's half-brother Erik Emune.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Selart |first=Anti |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dHu9BwAAQBAJ&dq=ingeborg+Erik+emune&pg=PA36 |title=Livonia, Rus' and the Baltic Crusades in the Thirteenth Century |date=2015-03-31 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-28475-3 |language=en}}</ref> Ingeborg is not mentioned after this, and the date of her birth and death are unknown.
==Issue== * Margaret of Denmark; married Stig Hvitaledr * Christine of Denmark (b. 1118); married (1133) Magnus IV of Norway * Catherine of Denmark; married Pribislav Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg * Valdemar I of Denmark (born 1131)
==References== {{reflist}} * Ingeborg i Carl Frederik Bricka, Dansk biografisk Lexikon (första utgåvan, 1894)
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