Editing Margaret I of Denmark (section)

==Death==
[[File:Roskilde Dom07.jpg|thumb|330px|Margaret's elaborate tomb, near subsequent royal sarcophagi in [[Roskilde Cathedral]], Denmark.]]
In 1412, Margaret tried to recover [[Duchy of Schleswig|Schleswig]], and thus entered a war with [[Holstein]]. Before that she had managed the recovery of Finland and Gotland. While winning the war, Margaret died suddenly on board her ship in [[Flensburg]] Harbor.{{sfn|Derry|2000|p=73}}

In October 1412, she set sail from Seeland in her ship. She attended several debates, which reportedly had brought matters to a state of promising forwardness. On retiring to her vessel though, with the intention of leaving the port, "she was seized with sudden and violent illness". Margaret apparently foresaw the end of her life, as she ordered thirty seven marks to be paid to the nearby monastery of Campen for a perpetual mass for her soul. Beyond this, there is no discussion in the historical record regarding her demise. She died on the night of 28 October 1412, the vigil of [[St. Simon]] and [[St. Jude]].{{sfn|Bain|1911|p=702}}<ref>{{cite web|last1=Wakefield|first1=Andrew|title=Queen Margaret of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (1353–1412). 2005|url=http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/margaretden.html|website=Prof. Pavlac's Women's History Resource Site|access-date=9 September 2016}}</ref> Possible scenarios that have been suggested include plague, shock from the death of [[Abraham Brodersson]] (whom 18th-century authors have alleged was the father of a daughter Margareta had, while 19th-century authors have blamed the story on a mistranslation),<ref>{{cite book|last1=Smollett|first1=Tobias George|title=The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 12|date=1762|publisher=W. Simpkin and R. Marshall|page=170|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3_wvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA170}}</ref>{{sfn|White|2010|p=210}} or poisoning by Erik.<ref>{{cite book|last=Higgins|first=Sophia Elizabeth|title=Women of Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries|volume=1|publisher=Hurst and Blackett|date=1885|location=Oxford University|page=[https://archive.org/details/womeneuropeinfi00unkngoog/page/n78 69]|url=https://archive.org/details/womeneuropeinfi00unkngoog|quote=The event gave rise to many conjectures..}}</ref>

Her [[sarcophagus]], made by the Lübeck sculptor Johannes Junge in 1423, is situated behind the high altar in [[Roskilde Cathedral]], near [[Copenhagen]]. She had left property to the cathedral on the condition that [[Roman Mass|Masses]] for her soul would be said regularly in the future. This was discontinued in 1536 during the [[Protestant Reformation]], though a special bell is still rung twice daily in commemoration.