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  DENMARK - LoveToKnow Article on DENMARK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Denmark, however, is nowhere low in the sense in which Holland is; the country is pleasantly diversified, and rises a little at the coast even though it remains flat inland.
Population.The population of Denmark in 1901 was 2,449,540.
Denmark was offered an alliance, the complete restitution of her fleet after the war, a guarantee of all her possessions, compensation for all expenses, and even territorial aggrandizement.
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 Eric IV of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eric IV (1216-August 9, 1250), also known as Plovpenning, was king of Denmark from 1241 until his death.
Eric was coruler with his father from 1232.
Eric also fought the Scanian peasants, who rebelled because of his hard taxes, among other things, on ploughs.
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 Denmark. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Denmark’s main exports are agricultural and industrial machinery, teak and oak furniture, meat, fish, and metals and metal manufactures; the chief imports are machinery, metals, motor vehicles, and fuels.
Denmark was involved in numerous wars with Sweden and other neighbors; the participation of Christian IV (reigned 1588–1648) in the Thirty Years War (1618–48) and the wars of Frederick III (reigned 1648–70) with Sweden caused Denmark to lose its hegemony in the north to Sweden.
Denmark was defeated and agreed in the London Protocol of 1852 to preserve a special status for the two duchies.
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 Christopher I of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the son of Valdemar II of Denmark by his wife, Princess Berengária of Portugal, and brother to Abel and Eric IV.
Christopher found himself excommunicated from the Catholic Church, while trying to have his brother Eric IV of Denmark canonized.
Eric was supposedly murdered by brother King Abel in 1250.
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 Eric V of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eric V "Klipping" (1249-1286) was King of Denmark (1259-1286) and son of Christopher I.
The Pope seemingly agreed, but it never became an issue; Eric was succeded by his son, who was named Eric after his uncle, Eric IV "Ploughpenny".
Eric Klipping was assasinated November 22, 1286, and a number of the nation's most powerful noblemen, led by Marsk Stig Andersen Hvide were outlawed by the Danish court.
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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.
Son of Eric V; defeated combined forces of disaffected nobles, Duke Valdemar of Schleswig, and Norwegian king (1295); imprisonment of Archbishop Jens Grand led to papal interdict (1297-1303); won from Emperor Albert I cession of all lands north of Elbe (1304); wars and feuds nearly bankrupted nation, causing renewed trouble with nobles, church.
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Conrad IV Conrad IV, 1228-54, German king (1237-54), king of Sicily and of Jerusalem (1250-54), son of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II.
Christian IV Christian IV, 1577-1648, king of Denmark and Norway (1588-1648), son and successor of Frederick II.
Unlike his father, Charles IV was an ineffective ruler and in 1792 virtually surrendered the government to Godoy, his chief minister and the favorite of his wife, María Luisa.
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 Encyclopedia: Eric-V-of-Denmark
Margrethe Sambiria was the Queen consort of Christopher I of Denmark, and acted as regent for Eric V of Denmark.
Abel of Denmark (1218-1252), was Duke of Schleswig 1232-1252 and King of Denmark from 1250 until his death.
Eric VI Menved (1274 - 13 November 1319) was King of Denmark (1286-1319) and a son of Eric V. Born in 1274.
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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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 All the Kings of Denmark
Parents: King Valdemar IV Atterdag of Denmark and Helvig of Sönderjylland.
Maria was daughter of Henrik III, Duke of Mecklenburg and Ingeborg of Denmark (older sister of Margrete).
Heir to the Danish throne in 1455, heir to the Swedish and Norwegian thrones in 1458.
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 Valdemar II Of Denmark Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Valdemar II (1170–1241), 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.
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 Abel of Denmark - Encyclopedia, History and Biography
Dulce was herself a daughter of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona and Queen regnant Petronila of Aragon.
Abel succeeded to the throne on November 1, 1250, after the death of his brother Eric IV of Denmark.
His half-grown son Valdemar was held for ransom by the Archbishop of Cologne at the time, and so it was Eric and Abel's youngest brother Christopher I of Denmark who was crowned King on Christmas day 1252.
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 Denmark
Denmark supported Napoléon, for which it was punished at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 by the loss of Norway to Sweden.
Denmark was the only occupied country in World War II to save all its Jews from extermination, by smuggling them out of the country.
Denmark was a strong ally to the U.S. during the Iraq war, one of five countries to contribute combat troops (the others were the U.S., UK, Australia, and Poland).
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 Eric IV of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Eric fought the Scanian peasants who rebelled because of his hard taxes on ploughs, among other things (this gave him his epithet "ploughmoney").
He also fought his brother Abel, duke of Schleswig and as he negotiated a truce with him he was taken prisoner and assassinated.
Eric had only two daughters from his marriage with Jutta of Saxe:
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 Danish history (the s.c.nordic FAQ)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Denmark adopts the "November Constitution" which aims to unite Slesvig (but not Holstein) with the Danish Kingdom and therefore is a violation of the peace treaty of 1851 in which Denmark had promised not to separate the two duchies.
Denmark remains neutral during World War I. Denmark sells her three Caribbean islands to the USA for 25 million dollars (the present-day US Virgin Islands).
Denmark is probably the only country in the world that can produce an uninterrupted list of monarchs for more than thousand years.
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 Margaret I of Denmark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Margaret I Queen of Denmark and Norway, Regent of Sweden (1353 - October 28, 1412) was born in Vordingborg Castle, the daughter of IV of Denmark">Valdemar IV of Denmark[?].
Margaret revolted at the clauses which insisted that each country should retain exclusive possession of its own laws and customs and be administered by its own dignitaries, as tending in her opinion to prevent the complete amalgamation of Scandinavia, But with her usual prudence she avoided every appearance of an open rupture.
A few years after the Union of Kalmar, Eric, now in his eighteenth year, was declared of age and homage was rendered to him in all his three kingdoms, but during her lifetime Margaret was the real ruler of Scandinavia.
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 The Left Handshake: Chapter IV: Scouting in Occupied Countries: Denmark & Norway
The contrast between the lot of Scouts in Denmark, the next country to be overrun by the Germans, and that of those in Poland was marked.
The geographical position of Denmark made the smuggling of arms into the country by Danish partisans somewhat easier than it was in other countries.
After transshipment, the arms were landed at various spots in Denmark, as much as four and a half tons of machine-guns, pistols and hand grenades being thus safely smuggled.
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 Christopher I of Denmark -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Christopher I (1219-May 29, 1259) was king of (A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe; consists of the mainland of Jutland and many islands between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea) Denmark between 1252 and 1259.
While trying to have his brother (Click link for more info and facts about Eric IV of Denmark) Eric IV of Denmark, who was murdered in 1250, supposedly by king Abel, canonized, Christopher found himself excommunicated from the Catholic church.
His men had arrested and humiliated the proud and self-righteous arch bishop Jakob Erlandsen after Erlandsen had refused to recognize Christopher's son Eric as his (Christopher's) successor, 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.
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 Eric IV of Denmark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Eric IV (1216 - 1250), also knownas Plovpenning, was king of Denmark from 1241 until his death.
Eric fought the Scanian peasants whorebelled because of his hard taxes on ploughs, among other things (this gave him his epithet "ploughmoney").
He also fought hisbrother Abel, duke of Schleswig and as he negotiated a truce with himhe was taken prisoner and executed.
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 The Ecole Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The illegitimate son of Sven II of Denmark, Canute was the grandnephew of Canute of England, who had reigned from 1016 until 1035, and considered the throne of England to be his and William the Conquerer to be a usurper.
He became king of Denmark six years later, after the death of his older brother, Harold the Idle.
Eric III Evergood of Denmark petitioned Paschal II to canonize Canute in 1099; Canute was officially called a saint two years later.
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 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of May 18
Eric IX, son of Jedvard of Vastergotland, claimed the throne of Sweden in 1150 through his marriage to Princess Christine and reigned as king for ten years.
In reaction to Eric's insistence that tithes be paid to support the Church as they were elsewhere in Europe, some Swedish nobles joined forces with Magnus, son of the king of Denmark.
Saint Eric is portrayed in art as a young king being murdered during Mass with the bishop Henry of Uppsala (Roeder).
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 Denmark Exibit
In the meantime Eric the Red formed a number of settlements along the southwest coast in the late 10th century.
King Frederick IV (1671-1730) decided to send missionaries to the station once he learned that the company chaplain was unable to minister to the local Indians.
Though Denmark was one of the last of the European countries to establish itself along the west coast of Africa, Denmark stayed longer than Portugal, the first European country to do so.
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 Christopher I of Denmark
Christopher I (1219-1259) was king of Denmark between 1252 and 1259.
He was the son of Valdemar II of Denmark by his wife, princess Berengaria of Portugal, and was elected King upon the death of his older brother Abel in the summer of 1252.
While trying to have his brother Eric IV of Denmark, who was murdered in 1250, supposedly by king Abel, canonized, Christopher found himself excommunicated from the Catholic church.
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 Encyclopedia: Eric IV of Denmark
Events April 5 - Mongols of Golden Horde under the command of Subotai defeat feudal polish nobility, including Knights Templar, in the battle of Liegnitz April 27 - Mongols defeat Bela IV of Hungary in the battle of Sajo.
Berengária, princess of Portugal was Queen consort of Denmark, fifth daughter of Portuguese King Sancho I, wife of Danish King Valdemar II and mother of Danish Kings Eric IV, Abel and Christopher I. She was born c.
This is a list of Danish monarchs, that is, the Kings and ruling Queen of Denmark, including Regents of the Kalmar Union.
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 Denmark Heads
By her marriage to Valdemar IV Atterdag (1340-75), her father gave her 1/4 of Jutland as dowry which he had in security for lones to the Danish kings and other royals who had engaged in a long civil war.
At the age of ten, in 1363, Margrethe was married to King Håkon VI of Norway, son of Magnus II of Sweden and Norway.
Their son Olaf, born in 1370, was elected King Olaf II of Denmark in 1375 at the death of Margrethe's father, with her as regent.
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 Denmark: History
Denmark was involved in numerous wars with Sweden and other neighbors; the participation of
Frederick IV (reigned 1699–1730) gained some financial awards and the union of ducal Schleswig with royal Schleswig.
Denmark Vesey: The Buried History of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It.
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 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of January 19
He accompanied the papal legate, Nicholas Cardinal Breakspear (later Pope Adrian IV), to Scandinavia in 1151 and was consecrated bishop of Uppsala, Sweden, the following year by the cardinal at the council of Linköping.
Henry was with King Saint Eric of Sweden during the latter's crusade into Finland, in 1154, to punish to Finnish pirates who repeatedly invaded Sweden.
Eric offered peace and the Christian faith, both of which were refused by the Finns.
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 Eric Rudolph Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It is a Christian name after St Eric, King Eric IX of Sweden; its name day is May 18th.
*Eric I of Denmark, Eric II of DenmarkII, Eric III of DenmarkIII, Eric IV of DenmarkIV, Eric V of DenmarkV, Eric VI of DenmarkVI, Eric VII of DenmarkVII,
ERIC is moving forward with its modernization program, and has begun acquiring materials for addition to the database.
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