Catherine Ingesdotter of Sweden

Katarina Ingesdotter was a Swedish princess who married the Danish prince Bjørn Haraldsen Ironside.

Life Katarina was the daughter of King Inge the Elder of Sweden and Queen Helena. She was the sister of Christina Ingesdotter and Margaret Fredkulla. Katarina was the youngest of the three royal daughters: her sister Christina married in the 1090s, and her sister Margaret in 1101. Katarina is assumed to have been of about the same age as her future spouse, and was thus born in around the year 1100.

Katarina's father died in 1110, and was succeeded on the Swedish throne by his nephews. By the time of her father's death, Katarina would still have been a child. Her mother is reported to have entered Vreta Abbey as a widow. Her eldest sister, Christina, lived in Kievan-Rus', and was in Sweden considered as too far away to be given a share in the inheritance of their father. Her daughter Christina is estimated to have married the future king Eric IX of Sweden in the 1140s.

Issue Christina of Denmark, Queen of Sweden, married to Eric IX of Sweden.