Astrid of Valois

Astrid of Valois (1518–1685), known after 1555 as Astrid Sólareyjarsdóttir, was a Nidaros-born Storish and Vanic noblewoman, reigning in Nidaros as its last queen and monarch under the name Astrid (1542–1555). She was the great grandchild of Queen Dagmar (Anne-Marie Dagmarsdottir) and a first cousin of Gunvør Tårbæk (mother of Prince Daniel Kalirion).

Born into a Holy Nidarosian Church family, she married Pope Camillus II in 1544. It is believed that she had secretly converted to the Vanic religion in the years prior, possibly even before her reign. It is also believed that she poisoned her husband with arsenic, ensuring his death in 1555, at the same time as she agreed to the destruction of Nidarosian statehood and transformation to the Sólareyjar. Thereafter, she publicly converted to Vanicism. She was known, among Vanics, to be a fundamentalist, refusing, for example, to wear clothes whenever possible, citing her practice as a religious obligation.

She died during the collapse of Stormark around 1685.

Preceded by: Audon I

Queen of Nidaros 1542–1555

Succeeded by Nidaros dissolved