Eric I of Denmark

Eric I, called the Good (c. 1056–1103), a son of Sweyn II Estridsson, was king of Denmark from 1095. He backed Canute IV, fled the 1086 rising into Scania, and was elected at the landsting assemblies after Olaf Hunger's death as the long famines ended.

Popular and diplomatic, he secured from the Pope Canute's canonization in 1101 and an independent archbishopric at Lund. In 1103 he set out on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, but died at Paphos in Cyprus in July.