- CountryDenmark
- Town:Roskilde
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Year of creation:1897
- Rider(s):Margaret I
(1353 –1412) was the queen who founded the Kalmar Union of the kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, spanning Scandinavia for over a century. Margaret was known as a wise, energetic and capable leader, who governed with “farsighted tact and caution,” earning the nickname “Semiramis of the North”. She was derisively called “King Breechless”, one of several mean nicknames invented by her rival Albert of Mecklenburg, but was also known by her subjects as “the Lady King”, which became widely used in recognition of her capabilities. Knut Gjerset calls her “the first great ruling queen in European history.”
With her husband, King Haakon VI of Norway, Margaret had a son, King Olaf II of Denmark, who died before her. She was ultimately succeeded by a grandnephew, Eric of Pomerania. Although Eric came of age in 1401, Margaret continued for the remaining 11 years of her life to be sole ruler in all but name. Her regency marked the beginning of a Dano-Norwegian union which was to last for more than four centuries.
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- Sculptor(s):Carl-Nielsen, Anne-Marie
(1863 –1945) was a Danish sculptor. She was “one of the first women to be taken seriously as a sculptor,” a trend-setter in Danish art for most of her life. She was married to the Danish composer Carl Nielsen. In 1908 she was commissioned in 1908 to create an equestrian statue of King Christian IX in Copenhagen—the first woman to receive such a prestigious commission.
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Roskilde commissioned an equestrian statue of Margaret I of Denmark from Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen in the 1890s. She completed the first model in about 1897 but the final project was not completed due to lack of funding. In 2006, the equestrian statue was finally realized based on a plaster model which had been kept in the storages of Roskilde Museum. It now stands at Københavnsvej, opposite the Ro’s Torv Shopping Center.[
