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- BIOGRAPHY
In 1288, Ingrid Svantepolksdotter, one of the daughters of Benedikte Sunadotter of Ymseborg and Svantepold Knutsson, lord of Viby, was being educated at Vreta convent. Her father had intended that she would eventually marry a Danish nobleman, the future High Justiciar David Thorsteinsen. A Gothenland knight, Folke Algotsson, one of the numerous sons of the Griphuvud family (whose father was lawspeaker (justiciar) of Västergötland and who, according to legend, derived their ancestry from a dynasty of Westrogothian counts and justiciars, and mythically from king Algaute of the Geats), planned Ingrid's abduction with some of his brothers, which they then undertook.
Folke fled with his abducted bride to Norway, where they stayed and where Folke died. King Magnus III of Sweden was said to have been furious about the wilful breach of the safety of women in convents, and had one the participant brothers executed. Ultimately Ingrid returned from Norway and became abbess of Vreta; her son Knut Folkason became a semi-sovereign prince of Blekinge and Lister.
Ingrid died after 1350.
Owner of Strömsrum in Alsterå rivermouth in Ålem in Stranda near Mönsterås near Kalmar.
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