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Eric VII of Denmark

Eric of Pomerania
Eric VII the Pomeranian of Denmark (photo 2010) crop.jpg
King of Norway
Reign 1389–1442
(de facto from 1412)
Coronation 1392 in Oslo?
17 June 1397 in Kalmar
Predecessor Margaret I
Successor Christopher I
King of Denmark
Reign 1396–1439
(de facto from 1412)
Coronation 17 June 1397 in Kalmar
Predecessor Margaret I
Successor Christopher III
King of Sweden
Reign 1396–1439
(de facto from 1412)
Coronation 17 June 1397 in Kalmar
Predecessor Margaret I
Successor Christopher I
Regent Karl Knutsson (1438–40)
Born 1381/82
Rügenwalde, Pomerania
(now Darłowo, Poland)
Died 24 September 1459 (aged 76–78)
Rügenwalde Castle
Burial Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Rügenwalde, Holy Roman Empire
(now Darłowo, Poland) [30]
Spouse Philippa of England
Cecilia (morganatic)
House Griffins
Father Wartislaw VII, Duke of Pomerania
Mother Mary of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Religion Roman Catholicism

Eric of Pomerania KG (1381 or 1382 – 24 September 1459) was King Eric (Eirik) III of Norway (1389–1442), King Eric VII of Denmark (1396–1439), and King Eric (Ericus) XIII (VIII) of Sweden (1396–1439), in all three known mainly as Erik af/av Pommern. He was the first King of the Nordic Kalmar Union, succeeding his adoptive mother Margaret I of Denmark, and was also Duke Eric I of Pomerania.

Referring to Eric of Pomerania as King Eric XIII of Sweden is a later invention, counting backwards from Eric XIV (1560–1568), who adopted his numeral according to a fictitious history of Sweden. Going back into prehistory, it is not known how many Swedish monarchs were named Eric before this one (at least six were).

Born Boguslaw, he was the son of Wartislaw VII, Duke of Pomerania, and Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Eric's paternal grandparents were Boguslaw V, Duke of Pomerania and his second wife Adelheid of Brunswick-Grubenhagen. His maternal grandparents were Henry III, Duke of Mecklenburg and Ingeborg of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg. Their son Albert was a rival of Olaf Haakonsson in regard to the Danish succession in 1375.

Ingeborg was a daughter of Valdemar IV of Denmark and his Queen consort Heilwig of Schleswig.


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