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Canute Porse the Elder

Danish noble

Field	Value
name	Canute Porse the Elder
title	Duke of Samsø
Duke of Halland
Duke of Estonia
Count of Kalundborg
image	Canute Porse bust 2009 Linköping crop.jpg
image_size	200px
spouse	Ingeborg Haakonsdatter
issue	Haakon Knudsen Porse, Duke of Halland
Knud Knudsen Porse, Duke of Halland
noble family	Porse
father	Peder Knudsen Porse
birth_date
death_date
death_place	Copenhagen

Duke of Halland Duke of Estonia Count of Kalundborg Knud Knudsen Porse, Duke of Halland

Fantasy sculpture representing Duke Canute in Halland's capital of [[Halmstad

Canute Porse the Elder or Knud/Knut Porse (died 30 May 1330) was a medieval Danish nobleman and Duke of Samsø, Duke of Halland, Duke of Estonia, and Count of Kalundborg.{{cite web|url = http://denstoredanske.dk/Danmarks_geografi_og_historie/Danmarks_historie/Danmark_f%C3%B8r_Reformationen/Knud_Porse|title= Knud Porse

Biography

Porse was the son of Peder Porse, who was one of several Danish nobleman involved in the assassination of King Eric V of Denmark and thus was exiled since 1286 with his family.

On 21 June 1327, Porse married Norwegian princess Ingeborg (1301–1361), daughter of King Haakon V of Norway (1270–1319). She was also Duchess of Södermanland by her first marriage to Swedish prince Eric Magnusson, Duke of Södermanland (1282–1318). Through her first marriage, she was the mother of King Magnus (IV & VII) of Sweden and Norway (1316–1374) and of Euphemia of Sweden (1317–1370) wife of Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg. This made him the step-father of the King of Norway-Sweden.

Before marrying Duchess Ingeborg, Porse had led the troops that put a military end to the reign of her brother-in-law King Birger in 1318. In 1322, without the approval of the Swedish government, he had joined forces with her to invade and try to conquer Scania (then in Denmark), which failed and caused trouble for them with that government. In the next year Ingeborg's valuable dowry of Axvall was besieged and in a peace settlement in 1326 (the year before she married Porse) she was given Dåvö in Munktorp instead.

Following his marriage to Ingeborg, Porse became duke of her extensive additional domains in Halland and Samsø. In 1329, her authority was extended to the Duchy of Estonia, but Canute Porse died the year after that. Porse and Ingeborg had two sons (below), who lost their Scanian hundreds of Bjäre and North Åsbo in 1341, but retained Halland till their deaths via the Black Death.

Haakon Porse, Duke of Halland (died 1350)
Canute Porse the Younger, Duke of Halland (died 1350)

References

Succession

By right of his wife, Ingeborg of Norway (as dukes of all Halland) elected, with Ingeborg of Norway (alone)

References

Terje Bratberg. "Erik Magnusson". Norsk biografisk leksikon.
[[Ulf Sundberg]] in ''Medeltidens svenska krig'' [[Stockholm]] 1999 {{ISBN. 9189080262 pp. 123, 133 & 135 {{in lang. sv
Erik Opsahl. "Knut Porse". Store norske leksikon.
Ulf Sundberg in ''Medeltidens svenska krig'' [[Stockholm]] 1999 {{ISBN. 9189080262 p. 140 {{in lang. sv

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