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| | VALDEMAR IV. OF DENMARK - LoveToKnow Article on VALDEMAR IV. OF DENMARK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | 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. |
 | | 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. |
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