Blanka of Namur
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Queen Blanche of Sweden and sometime also of Norway, (1320-1363) born as daughter of the Count of Namur.
She married King Magnus Ericson of Sweden in 1335, and was given the landscape of Tunsberg in gift as a fief. Together they had two sons, Eric and Haakon. It was agreed that Eric should inherit Sweden and Haakon Norway. When Haakon became Haakon VI of Norway in 1355, Eric rebelled against his father and was elevated to co-ruler of Sweden.