Her exact date of birth is unknown, but is generally placed as the third daughter and fifth child born of her parents' marriage (at all, they had seven children, two sons and five daughters). She was certainly born before 1273, because by that year she and her sister Katharina were considered for possible marriage with
Otto, only son and heir of
John, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. However, the marriage negotiations ended without results. In 1275, King Valdemar was deposed by his brother
Magnus, and a year later his wife Sophia divorced him and returned to Denmark. Apparently, young Richeza and her siblings remained in Sweden probably under the care of their father. Her
marriage by proxy with
Przemysł II, Duke of
Greater Poland, took place in the Swedish city of
Nyköping on 11 October 1285. In the same ceremony, Richeza's younger sister Marianne (or Marina), was married to a German nobleman, Count Rudolph II of Diepholz. Richeza's marriage, concluded through the mediation of the House of Ascania, rulers of Brandenburg, was performed without the consent of her father, ex-King Valdemar. In the proxy marriage the Polish Duke was represented by the notary Tylon, one of his closest subjects. There is no information about when and where the formal marriage took place between Przemysł II and Richeza. Traditionally, Richeza and Przemysł II's marriage is described as happy. Their only child was born on 1 September 1288 in the city of
Poznań: a daughter, named
Richeza, who later became in Queen consort of Bohemia and Poland as a wife of
Wenceslaus II and after his death, of
Rudolph III of Habsburg. The news of the birth of her daughter was also the last information about Richeza. She certainly died between 1 September 1288 and before 13 April 1293, most likely between 1289-1292. The reports of
Jan Długosz, who placed her next to her husband in his royal coronation on 26 June 1295, proved to be erroneous. Richeza was buried in the
Archcathedral Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul in Poznań. After Przemysł II's murder in 1296 and following his wishes, he was buried next to her. ==Notes==