Margaret was the daughter of King Erik Jedvardsson "the Saint" and his Danish Queen Christina.
She is only sporadically mentioned in history during her tenure as queen; primarily in connection with an attempt by Nikolas Arnesson to become Bishop of Stavanger.
In the sagas, Queen Margaret is portrayed as suspect and intrigant [2] She became a widow in 1202, returned to her native Sweden, and retired to her estates in Västergötland and Värmland.
Her daughter married co-regent Filip Simonsson, the Bagler party candidate to the throne of Norway.
Margaret is portrayed as having an affair with a fictional Bagler aristocrat and poisons Haakon in a conspiracy to become queen again.