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	Eric VI of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eric VI Menved (1274 - 13 November 1319) was King of Denmark (1286-1319) and a son of Eric V.
		The long wars however drained Denmark’s economic resources and the lavishness and extravaganzas of the king (a great and expensive banquet at Rostock 1311 was a climax) became a further strain on the finances.
		When he died 1319 having survived all his 15 children Denmark was a kingdom in a state of decay behind the appearance of a great power.
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	Valdemar III of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Valdemar III of Denmark (Waldemar III) (1314 - 1364) was a king of Denmark from 1326 to 1329 briefly when underage, as well as in 1325-26 and 1330-64 Dke of Schleswig.
		Valdemar's father was Duke Eric II of Schleswig and mother was Adelheid of Holstein, daughter of Henry I of Rendsborg.
		When his distant kinsman and the head of the rival royal branch Christopher II of Denmark was exiled from his kingdom, the Holsteiner and Danish high nobles got to choose a new king.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Valdemar_III_of_Denmark (417 words)

	History of Denmark
		Today, Denmark's balanced economy, in which much of its agricultural and industrial output is exported, gives the country one of the highest standards of living in the world.
		Denmark is subject to marine and continental air masses, and great differences occur in the day-to-day weather, depending on the direction of the prevailing winds.
		Industrial development, hitherto slowed in Denmark owing to the lack of raw materials for heavy industry, was aided by the growing demand for equipment in the food-processing industries, and by the end of the 19th century, numerous industrial items were being produced.
	www.pip.dknet.dk /~pip261/denmark.html (2863 words)

	Christopher II of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Being the brother of King Eric VI, Christopher was a possible heir to the throne.
		Christopher was restored as Danish king 1329-1330 by the co-operation of Johan, but this time he was reduced to the position of a puppet from the start.
		Christopher had three sons of which the last one, Valdemar IV Atterdag, was to restore the Danish kingdom in 1340.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christopher_II_of_Denmark (556 words)

	Denmark
		On the death of Christopher II in 1332, Denmark was torn by internal strife to the point of disintegration.
		During the 16th century Denmark was one of the great powers of Europe, the reign of Frederick II (1559–88) and the early part of the reign of Christian IV (1588–1648) being the period of the country’s greatest strength, although in 1563–70 there was a disastrous attempt to regain Sweden.
		Denmark wished to remain neutral, and if this was not possible was resolved to attack even France; but a British fleet was dispatched in 1807 to take possession of the Danish fleet, and at the same time to offer Denmark very generous terms.
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	Denmark
		She was the daughter of Frederick II of Denmark and Norway, and married James in 1589.
		Christian III (1503-59), king of Denmark and Norway (1534-59), the son of Frederick I. Christian established Lutheranism as the state religion in all his dominions, defeating a strong Roman Catholic opposition and confiscating the lands and properties of the church.
		Frederick II (of Denmark and Norway) (1534-88), king of Denmark and Norway (1559-88), son of Christian III.
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	Encyclopedia: Christopher II of Denmark
		HillerÃ¸d is a municipality in eastern Denmark, on the island of Zealand.
		Eric V Klipping (1249-1286) was King of Denmark (1259-1286) and son of Christopher I. Until 1264 he ruled under the auspices of his mother, the competent Queen Dowager Margaret Sambiria.
		Eric VI Menved (1274 - 13 November 1319) was King of Denmark (1286-1319) and a son of Eric V. Born in 1274.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Christopher-II-of-Denmark (1349 words)

	VALDEMAR IV. - LoveToKnow Article on VALDEMAR IV.
		1320-1375), was the youngest son of Christopher II.
		Valdemar was brought up at the court of the German emperor, Louis of Bavaria, during those miserable years when the realm of Denmark was partitioned among Holstein counts and German Ritte.r, while Scania, " the bread-basket " of the monarchy, sought deliverance from anarchy under the protection of Magnus of Sweden.
		Neither the time nor the place of Valdemar's birth is known, but he could not have been more than twenty when he became the nominal king of Denmark, though, as a matter of fact, his territory was limited to the northernmost county of Jutland.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /V/VA/VALDEMAR_IV_.htm (499 words)

	Valdemar IV of Denmark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		He was the youngest son of Christopher II.
		However, the resulting conflict with the Hanseatic League ended in a Danish defeat, and in 1370 he was forced to submit to the Treaty of Stralsund.
		He was succeeded by his grandson Oluf III of Denmark, the offspring of his daughter Margaret and Haakon VI of Norway, son to Magnus II of Sweden.
	www.ceca.de /encyclopedia/v/va/valdemar_iv_of_denmark.html (137 words)

	Denmark (08/05)
		Denmark's provinces in today's southwestern Sweden were lost in 1658, and Norway was transferred from the Danish to the Swedish crown in 1814, following the defeat of Napoleon, with whom Denmark was allied.
		Denmark remained neutral during World War I. Despite its declaration of neutrality at the beginning of World War II, it was invaded by the Germans in 1940 and occupied until liberated by the Allied forces in May 1945.
		Denmark became a charter member of the United Nations and was one of the original signers of the North Atlantic Treaty.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3167.htm (5241 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Denmark
		Christian II was the first who tried to overthrow the power of the princely hierarchy, and for this purpose invited (1520) a German, Martin Reinhard, to preach in Copenhagen in the spirit of Luther, but as the people did not understand him, he remained in the country only a short time.
		His brother, Christopher II, was compelled to swear to a capitulation, at his election, and, since he did not abide by it, was expelled by the magnates under Count Gert of Holstein, who obtained the election of his sister's son, Duke Waldemar, as the third king of that name.
		In the former kingdom Charles Knutsson was raised to the throne; in Denmark and in Norway Count Christian of Oldenburg, the husband of Christopher's widow, and with him the house of Oldenburg, succeeded to the sovereignty.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04722c.htm (10911 words)

	CHRISTOPHER I OF DENMARK FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Christopher I (1219-May_29, 1259) was King of Denmark between 1252 and 1259.
		Christopher found himself excommunicated from the Catholic Church, while trying to have his brother Eric_IV_of_Denmark canonized.
		But the excommunication had little or no effect, and Christopher was buried in Christian soil by the Bishop of Ribe upon his death on May 29, 1259.
	www.amysflowershop.com /Christopher_I_of_Denmark (206 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In World War II, Greece was first invaded by Italy (1940) and subsequently occupied by Germany (1941-44); fighting endured in a protracted civil war between royalist supporters of the king and communist rebels.
		Following World War II, the British withdrew from their mandate of Palestine, and the UN partitioned the area into Arab and Jewish states, an arrangement rejected by the Arabs.
		Abandoned after World War II, the island is currently a National Wildlife Refuge administered by the US Department of the Interior; a day beacon is situated near the middle of the west coast.
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	Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg1588 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Christopher II of Denmark ERIKSSON [Parents] was born 29 Sep 1276.
		Erik VI Menved of Denmark ERIKSSON was born 1274 and died 13 Nov 1319.
		Christopher II of Denmark ERIKSSON was born 29 Sep 1276 and died 2 Aug 1332.
	www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk /maximilia/pafg1588.htm (299 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Schleswig
		Waldemar V was elected King of Denmark and in return gave the Duchy of Schleswig to his uncle, the Count of Holstein.
		On the death in 1459 of Adolf VII, son of Gerhard VI, the line of the counts of Schauenburg became extinct, and the estates of Schleswig and of Holstein elected in 1460 as duke and count the Danish King Christian of the Oldenburg dynasty, who was the sob of Adolf's sister.
		In spite of this union with Denmark both territories remained German in character; the language of the courts and official documents was German, the law of the cities was German, the nobility was German, the bishop and chapter of the Diocese of Schleswig were chosen from German families.
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	Medieval Scandinavian Kingdoms (A
		Denmark was founded by Gorm the Old, and Norway by Harald Fairhair, about A. 875 while Sweden was founded by the royal race of the Ynglingar about A. Political History of Denmark.
		In 1241 he gave Denmark her first uniform code of laws, a code which remained in force for almost four and a half centuries, and was not wholly abolished even then.
		Christopher III., the son of the Duke of Bavaria and the nephew of Erik, was elected Ring of Denmark, and was crowned the same year, A. In 1442 he was also proclaimed lying of Sweden and Norway.
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	Ancestors and Family of Christopher II Eriksson of Denmark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The childless Erik Menved was succeeded by his brother, Christopher II, who was forced to sign a strict charter and was the first king to accept the hof as a permanent institution, independent of his personal supporters.
		After Christopher's return, the kingdom was split by a peasant uprising, church discord, and the struggle with the Holsteiners, who received almost all of the country in pawn; Skåne rebelled against its Holstein count and came under Swedish rule.
		Christopher married Euphemia of Pommerania, daughter of Bogislav IV of Pommerania and Unknown, in 1300.
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	VALDEPENAS - LoveToKnow Article on VALDEPENAS
		But the chronic state of rebellion in western Denmark, which, fomented by the discontented Jutish magnates, lasted with short intervals from 1350 to 1360, compelled Valdemar to renounce these far-reaching and fantastic designs.
		In July 1361 Valdemar set sail from Denmark at the head of a great fleet, defeated a peasant army before Visby, and a few days later the burgesses of Visby made a breach in their walls through which the Danish monarch passed in triumph.
		At a Hansetag held at Cologne on the nth of November 1367, three groups of the towns, seventy in number, concerted to attack Denmark, and in January 1368 Valdemar's numerous domestic enemies, especially the Jutlanders and the Holstein counts, acceded to the league, with the object of partitioning the realm among them.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /V/VA/VALDEPENAS.htm (1491 words)

	Magnus II of Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Magnus II Ericson, Magnus VII of Norway, (1316–December 1, 1377), King of Sweden, Norway, and Terra Scania, son of Duke Eric Magnusson of Sweden and Ingeborg, daughter of Haakon V of Norway.
		In 1332 the king of Denmark, Christopher II, died as a "king without a country", having pawned Denmark piece by piece.
		King Valdemar IV of Denmark conquered Terra Scania in 1360.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Magnus_II_of_Sweden (250 words)

	History of the World: Union Of Denmark, Sweden, And Norway@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Canute the Great, King of England and Denmark, by successful wars added almost the whole of Norway to his dominions.
		At his death in 1035 his kingdoms were divided, and fell into anarchy and discord for two centuries, until the tyrant Black Geert, who had driven out Christopher II, and been for fourteen years the virtual sovereign of Denmark, was assassinated by the Danish patriot Niels Ebbeson.
		Christopher's third son, Waldemar, surnamed Atterdag, because he used to say when a misfortune happened, "To-morrow it...
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	1276 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		June - King Rudolph I of Germany declares war on King Otakar II of Bohemia, a political rival; by November, Otakar II is forced to cede four important territories as demanded by the diet of Nuremberg in 1274.
		Four different men are pope over the course of the year, as Popes Gregory X, Innocent V, and Adrian V all die in quick succession.
		The foundation stone of the Minorite Church in Vienna is laid by King Otakar II of Bohemia.
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	The Titles of the European Rulers
		Christopher (+1448), the son of John (+1443), Count-Palatine of Neunburg, and Catherine of Pomerania-Stolp, was elected King instead of his uncle Erick VII who was deposed in Denmark in 1438, in Sweden in 1439 and in Norway in 1442.
		Christopher III was accepted as King in Norway (1442), thus, the Union of Kalmar was preserved.
		[Agnates] Emperor Joseph II elevated the Counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst to the duchy of Oldenburg (1774, announced 1777).
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	LE - Denmark - Teacher Page
		Denmark offers insights into other issues, too — into the way even a small nation can make environmental protection a national priority, and into the many ways it can help to build peace in the post-9/11 world.
		Denmark's peninsular shape, its relatively long coastline, and its position at the entrance to the Baltic Sea would surely suggest a need for shipbuilders — before, during and after the Viking Era.
		They'll find also that Denmark was among the first of the EU's 15 members to ratify the Amsterdam Treaty (effective as of May 1999) — a treaty that focuses on such "people" issues as employment, the environment, and consumer protection.
	www.learningenrichment.org /denmark_teach.html (2396 words)

	Articles - Valdemar II of Denmark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Valdemar II (1170â“1241), called Valdemar the Conqueror or Valdemar the Victorious, was the King of Denmark from 1202 until 1241.
		Denmark was at the height of its power but in 1223 Valdemar was captured by his vassal, the Count of Schwerin and was released in 1226 only at the condition of giving up most of his conquests in north Germany.
		They had three sons, Eric IV of Denmark, Abel of Denmark, and Christopher I of Denmark, and one daughter, Sophie.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Valdemar_II_of_Denmark (562 words)

	The Danish-Norwegian Bugge family and its connection to the Klæboe family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In addition, Prince Christopher, the king's son, promised Knud his friendship and brotherhood, in the same way that Knud promised to turn has back upon friends and family and join the king's party.
		In 1360 his put his seal as a national counsellor upon the agreement between king Magnus and the "Haandfæstningen" at Kallundborg, and in early June 1632 he was at Vordingborg castle at Duke Henrik's wedding to King Valdemar's daughter, Ingeborg.
		II, brochure I page 107f, it referred to a tribute to the king dated 27th June to 20th July 1648 (in connection with the swearing of allegiance to King Frederik III) from Jølster, Holmedal, Aschevold, Kindt and Førde parishes.
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	Subject Index Page 17. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
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		Christopher III, king of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
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	700000 people connected with European Royalty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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	Christopher II of Denmark - Encyclopedia, History and Biography
		Christopher II of Denmark - Encyclopedia, History and Biography
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