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 | | Sture was mortally wounded at the, on January 19, and the Danish army, unopposed, was approaching Uppsala, where the members of the Swedish Privy Council, or Riksråd, had already assembled. |
 | | Sture's widow, Dame Christina Gyllenstierna, still held out stoutly at Stockholm, and the peasantry of central Sweden, roused by her patriotism, flew to arms, defeated the Danish invaders at Balundsås on March 19, and were only with the utmost difficulty finally defeated at the bloody, on Good Friday, April 6, 1520. |
 | | But king Frederick did not keep his promise, and for the next 27 years king Christian was kept prisoner, first in the Castle of Soenderborg untill 1549, and afterwards at the castle of Kalundborg. |
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