Dronning Margrete den første - Reersø, Denmark - Monarchs of the World on Waymarking.com

Margrethe 1 ,”Margrethe Valdemarsdatter” blev født i marts 1353 på Søborg Slot.

Hun blev som 10 årig gift med kong Håkon 6. af Norge og Sverige i 1363 og ved Hendes far, Valedmar Atterdag’s død 1375, bliver hun reelt set regerende dronning over Danmark, Norge og Sverige.
Margrethe’s eneste søn, Oluf, døde som 16 årig og hun opdragede derfor sin nevø Bugislav af Pommeren, senere kaldet Erik af Pommeren, som fostersøn.

Sagnet om strandingen og skibsforliset ved Reersø...

Margrethe 1. forliste i Jammerlandsbugten på vej fra Fyn til Kalundborg og reddede sig i land ved Reersø på en planke. Den skibbrudne dronning gav sig ikke til kende, men vaklede ind hos bonden Hans Hansen, der tog vel imod den ukendte kvinde og gav hende øllebrød og sild til davre (morgenmad). Efter tre dage på gården skulle bonden ind til Kalundborg og købe sæbe til sin kone og sælge et læs brænde, og Margrethe bad om at komme med.
Ved Ornum (Bjerge Strand) stansede Hans for at bede og hvile. Han lod hestene græsse. Margrethe spurgte Hans om det gik an at hestene græssede på herremandens jord, det mente Hanse ikke der var nogen der så og sov videre. I mens Hans blundede, gik dronningen hen over marken og mærkede et stort stykke land af med sine skridt. Da de kørte videre, bad hun bonden om at køre læsset op på Kalundborg Slot, for der ville han få sit brænde bedst betalt. “Kan nok være, men deroppe bliver jeg kuns til nar,” mente Hans. Til sidst føjede han hende dog, og da de kørte ind på slottet, gjorde skildvagten honnør for dronningen, som han genkendte. “Kan hun så se, vi blev til nar,” sagde Hans, men Margrethe fik ham alligevel til at køre op for hovedtrappen. Der steg hun af læsset, og bød Hans indenfor. Sådan fandt han ud af, hvem hun var.

Ved bordet var han ilde stedt med kniv og gaffel. “Brug du kuns næverne, Hans,” beroligede dronningen ham. Som hun havde været hans gæst i tre dage, var han hendes gæst på slottet i tre dage, før han vendte hjem med penge og sæbe til sin kone. Nogen tid herefter, kom der et dokument fra dronning Margrethe, hvorved hun gav reersøerne i arv og eje det jordestykke på Ornum, som hun havde skridtet af som deres lovmæssige bede- og hvilested på Kalundborgvejen. Dertil fik de frihed for konge- og kirketiende, samt præstetiende.

English: Margrethe 1, "Margrethe Valdemarsdatter" was born in March 1353 at Søborg Castle.

At the age of 10, she married King Håkon VI of Norway and Sweden in 1363, and by the death of her father, Valedmar Atterdag, in 1375, she became the ruling queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Margrethe's only son, Oluf, died at the age of 16 and she therefore raised her nephew Bugislav of Pomerania, later called Erik of Pomerania, as a foster son.

The legend of the stranding and shipwreck at Reersø ...

Margrethe 1st sank in Jammerlandsbugten on the way from Fyn to Kalundborg and saved herself ashore at Reersø on a plank. The shipwrecked queen did not make herself known, but staggered in with the farmer Hans Hansen, who welcomed the unknown woman and gave her beer bread and herring for davre (breakfast). After three days on the farm, the farmer had to go to Kalundborg and buy soap for his wife and sell a load of firewood, and Margrethe asked to come along.
At Ornum (Bjerge Strand) Hans stopped to pray and rest. He let the horses graze. Margrethe asked Hans if it was possible for the horses to graze on the lord's land, Hanse did not think anyone was watching and sleeping on. While Hans was dozing, the queen walked across the field and marked a large piece of land with her steps. When they drove on, she asked the farmer to drive the load up to Kalundborg Castle, because there he would get his firewood best paid. "Maybe it will be, but up there I will be a fool," thought Hans. Eventually, however, he added her, and as they drove into the castle, the sentry paid tribute to the queen, whom he recognized. "Can she see then, we became fools," said Hans, but Margrethe made him drive up the main stairs anyway. There she got off the load and invited Hans inside. That's how he found out who she was.

At the table he was badly placed with a knife and fork. "Use your fists only, Hans," the queen reassured him. As she had been his guest for three days, he was her guest at the castle for three days before returning home with money and soap to his wife. Some time afterwards, a document came from Queen Margrethe, in which she inherited the reed lakes and owned the piece of land on Ornum, which she had walked off as their legal place of prayer and rest on Kalundborgvejen. In addition, they were given freedom for royal and church tithes, as well as priest tithes.

Monarch Ranking: King / Queen Proper Title and Name of Monarch: Margaret I of Denmark (Margrete 1.) Country or Empire of Influence: Denmark Website for additonal information: [Web Link]

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