Porse was the son of
Peder Porse, who was one of several Danish nobleman involved in the assassination of King
Eric V of Denmark and thus was exiled since 1286 with his family. This made him the step-father of the King of Norway-Sweden. Before marrying Duchess Ingeborg, Porse had led the troops that put a military end to the reign of her brother-in-law King
Birger in 1318. In 1322, without the approval of the Swedish government, he had joined forces with her to invade and try to conquer
Scania (then in Denmark), which failed and caused trouble for them with that government. In the next year Ingeborg's valuable dowry of
Axvall was besieged and in a peace settlement in 1326 (the year before she married Porse) she was given Dåvö in
Munktorp instead. Following his marriage to Ingeborg, Porse became duke of her extensive additional domains in
Halland and
Samsø. In 1329, her authority was extended to the
Duchy of Estonia, but Canute Porse died the year after that. Porse and Ingeborg had two sons (below), who lost their
Scanian
hundreds of Bjäre and North Åsbo in 1341, but retained Halland till their deaths via the
Black Death. • Haakon Porse,
Duke of Halland (died 1350) • Canute Porse the Younger, Duke of Halland (died 1350) ==References==