[1] She was made fatherless in 1134, when her father Prince Björn was murdered by order of his uncle, King Eric II of Denmark.
Her sole surviving close relative, Björn's brother Oluf Haraldsen, sought assistance in Sweden and was able to set himself up as king in Skåne in 1140–1143.
[4] The marriage gave Erik the means to claim the Swedish throne; the House of Stenkil, to which Christina belonged on her mother's side, became extinct in the male line in the 1120s.
[6] This forced the monks to leave the country and seek refuge in Denmark, where they founded Vitskøl Abbey (1158), a conflict for which the pope contemplated to have her excommunicated.
It has been guessed that Queen Dowager Christina died in the beginning of Knut's reign, around 1170,[8] but neither the date of her birth or death is actually known.