Ingegerd Knutsdotter (Bengt Hafridssons ätt) - A Married Abbess?

Started by Kevin Casey on Monday, February 13, 2017
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Hej!

I understand that a nun or abbess might slip in their chastity vows, but Ingegard seems to have gotten married. What are the sources that suggest her marriage to Erland Haard?

Tack så mycket,
Kevin

Hi,

it might have been me who merged duplicate profiles of her and that the merge introduced this marriage (which seems highly unlikely).
This seems to be close to the introduction of these connections ; Jon Erlandsson Haard --> see Revision Tab.

I think that 'marriage' should be erased (unless somebody steps up with information suggestiong otherwise)

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There hasn't been a merge on her since 2014, which was before I made it a master profile.

But the Wikipedia article (https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingegerd_Knutsdotter) tells a more entertaining story:

Ingegerd was accused of forgery of the convent's documents, for embezzlement of the convent's property, and for having brought the abbey to disrepute by breaking the vow of chastity. It was a great scandal, as she was related to Saint Bridget. Ingegerd was accused of having "consorted too intimately" with both worldly men as well as men of the church. She embezzled from the taxes to the pope and gave it to her relative, Bishop Canute of Linköping, who cooperated with her in draining the abbey's assets by accepting her forged seals as genuine.[1] She was to have persuaded the monk Lucas Jacobi to break his vows and let him enter the female section of the abbey, where he destroyed the Letter of Privilege of the Vadstena Abbey by the Pope,[2] and prevented six monks from being ordained to priesthood because they had refused to break their vows.[2] The abbey complained to Queen Margaret, but without result, as Ingegerd enjoyed great status as the granddaughter of Saint Bridget.[2]

But neither Wikipedia mentions her having a child as a result of these events, so a source is still lacking.

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