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	Valdemar IV of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Valdemar IV of Denmark (Valdemar Atterdag) shown on a fresco in Næstved's Saint Peter's Church (Sankt Peders Kirke).
		King Valdemar is a pivotal figure in Danish history; he gradually reacquired the rest of Jutland and Zealand, and finally reunited Denmark by capturing Scania in 1360.
		Valdemar IV must be regarded as one of the most important of all Danish medieval kings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Waldemar_Atterdag_of_Denmark (607 words)

	Valdemar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Several kings in Denmark and Sweden were named Valdemar:
		The fictional country of Valdemar is the setting for a number of books and stories by Mercedes Lackey.
		This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Valdemar (91 words)

	Encyclopedia: Valdemar IV of Denmark
		He was the youngest son of Christopher II and spent most of his childhood and youth in a German exile after the defeats of his father.
		Seal of Margaret I of Denmark 1381 and 1403 Margaret I Queen of Denmark and Norway, Regent of Sweden (1353 – October 28, 1412) was born in Vordingborg Castle, the daughter of Valdemar IV of Denmark and Helvig of Sonderjylland.
		Valdemar I the Great (1131-1182) was King of Denmark from 1157 until 1182 He was the son of Canute Lavard, a chivalrous and popular Danish prince.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Valdemar-IV-of-Denmark (1214 words)

	Chronology of Sweden (1300-1399)
		Magnus is born to Duke Erik and Ingeborg.
		Erik is born to Duke Valdemar and Ingeborg.
		Valdemar Atterdag and the Danish army land on the west coast of Gotland and begin an attack on Visby.
	www.islandnet.com /~kpolsson/swedhis/swed1300.htm (1877 words)

	Gateway72
		The military policy of Valdemar the Victorious was opposed by other princes in the area, and in 1223 he and his eldest son were captured by Count Henrik of Schwerin.
		When Valdemar Atterdag’s father, Christoffer II »Lackland«, died in 1332, all the Crown lands in Denmark had been pawned to several mortgagees headed by Counts Gerhard and Johan of Holsten, and for the next eight years Denmark had no king.
		Valdemar Atterdag regained the Scanian provinces by force of arms in 1360 and also conquered Gotland which, together with Bornholm, was an important outpost in the Baltic, partly because Visby on Gotland was a Hanseatic town.
	um.dk /publikationer/UM/English/GatewayToTheBalticSea/Gateway72.html (531 words)

	Denmark - History - The Middle Ages
		Under Valdemar the Great (Valdemar I), and his two sons Canute VI and Valdemar the Victorious (Valdemar II), the power of the Crown was decisively strengthened.
		Valdemar and his son were taken prisoner on the island of Lyø, and the king was only released on payment of a large ransom.
		Valdemar Atterdag's greatest triumph in foreign policy proved to be the marriage between his daughter Margrete and King Håkon VI of Norway.
	www.um.dk /publikationer/UM/English/Denmark/kap6/6-3.asp (2123 words)

	Our house
		Valdemar Christoffersen is crowned king at Viborg, and marries Count Valdemar of Sønderjylland’s daughter Helvig.
		Valdemar defeats it, then reaffirms his previous alliance with Magnus and Håkan. Håkan’s intended bride, Elisabeth of Holstein, is intercepted on her way to Sweden by Niels Jonsen and held captive on Bornholm.
		Valdemar is restored as king in Skåne, with the exception of the ownership of the castles, still held by the Hansa.
	www.forest.gen.nz /Medieval/articles/house/ourhouse.html (2917 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Denmark, 1340-1490
		In disputes with the HANSEATIC LEAGUE, Valdemar Atterdag succeeded in establishing the SOUND LEVY, which was to remain Denmark's most important source of income until it's abolishment in 1863.
		At Valdemar Atterdag's death in 1375, Denmark had solid finances and a stable constitution.
		With Valdemar's successor, Olaf I., Denmark and Norway were united in DYNASTIC UNION, a union which was, under Queen MARGARETHE, joined by SWEDEN in 1397.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/scandinavia/denrise.html (525 words)

	hvadskete.htm
		Valdemar II The Victorious looses to his North-German vasals by treason from Ditmarsken.The Ejder river becomes border beetween Denmark and germany.
		Valdemar the Victorious is defeated by the German Duke Otto von Lüneburg and the Bishop of Bremen.
		Valdemar the 4th (Atterdag) defeats the Swedish peasant army and the Hanseatic city of Visby must pay three barrels of gold in ransom.
	www.geocities.com /armdury/Hvornaar.html (5053 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - Royal Court of Denmark. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		After a series of unorganized rebellions, during one count Gerhard is murdered, and an organized war waged by Valdemar and supporting nobility on one side, against the combined armies of the Holsteiner counts, supported occasionally by Holsteiner and Hanseatic troops, a peace treaty is signed in Berlin april the 22th.
		As a result, the grandson of Valdemar, Oluf (son of Margrethe of Denmark and king Håkon VI of Norway) is elected king.
		Atterdag had great need for enlisting the aid of the nobility during his struggle to reunite Denmark (see recent history), and the noble families of Denmark understood to be paid for offered support.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=201508 (7362 words)

	Träffpunkt Gotland - History of Gotland part 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		When Valdemar Atterdag 1361 toke Visby "The hanseatic league" took it as a assault on the entity "Hansacovenant".
		Valdemar Atterdag assault on Visby had none big importance in "Hannsans" eyes.
		Valdemar Atterdags attacked Visby could also be a strategical games from Denmark´s side in the transactions with The germans about the traderights.
	www.gotlandia.info /engelska/gotlandshistoria4-eng.asp (663 words)

	Nordic Unions through the times (the s.c.nordic FAQ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Which means that Valdemar Atterdag's later re-conquest of Scania only meant a restoration more or less to status quo ante, whereas his conquest of Gotland meant an important change of the "facts on the ground".
		After Valdemar Atterdag's death his five years old grandson Olav is elected King of Denmark - the alternative would have been the nephew of King Albrecht supported by the German emperor.
		Olav's father was King Håkon of Norway, but the Danish realm is in the hands of his mother, Queen Margrete of Norway, the daughter of Valdemar Atterdag, who wasn't on speaking terms with her husband the king.
	www.lysator.liu.se /nordic/scn/faq258.html (2346 words)

	Ancestors and Family of Albert von Mecklenburg
		In his struggles with the nobles, Magnus [Erikson] received the support of the Danish king, Valdemar Atterdag, and in 1359 Magnus' son Haakon of Norway was engaged to Valdemar's daughter Margaret.
		Albert joined in a coalition of Sweden, Mecklenburg, and Holstein against Denmark and succeeded in forcing Valdemar Atterdag from his throne for several years.
		Albert was not as weak as the nobles had hoped, and they forced him to sign two royal charters stripping him of his powers (1371 and 1383).
	nygaard.howards.net /files/2105.htm (279 words)

	Schoenberg: Gurrelieder -- Original liner notes
		Helvig was the wife of Valdemar Atterdag as well as the sister of Valdemar Dosmer, Duke of Schleswig.
		The marriage of Valdemar Atterdag and Helvig was part of a complicated series of negotiations which led to the coronation of Valdemar in 1340.
		Valdemar’s queen, Helvig, suffers her rival but waits for a moment of vengeance, which comes during an absence of Valdemar, as Tove is entering her bath.
	www.cd101.net /VBX204notes.html (4106 words)

	Valdemar IV Atterdag -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		In 1338 he left the imperial court, and, with the aid of the Emperor and of Louis, margrave of Brandenburg, he began a diplomatic offensive to wrest sovereignty in Denmark from Gerhard and John the Mild, counts of Holstein.
		After the assassination of Gerhard in April 1340, Valdemar reached an agreement with John and was recognized as king of Denmark.
		On returning to Denmark, Valdemar faced a revolt (1350) by leading Jutland magnates, aided by the counts of Holstein; it was the first of a series of uprisings challenging the formidable personal rule that he had established.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9074667 (1134 words)

	Vordingborg : Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Because of its natural harbor, Vordingborg was an important launching point for the military campaigns of Bishop Absalon in the late 1100s against the warring Wends of eastern Germany.
		During the reign of the Valdemar kings, Vordingborg continued to remain in favor as a royal residence.
		Valdemar IV (Valdemar Atterdag) was the king who in the 1360s extended the ring fortifications of the castle to their present-day dimensions.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=1975&catID=1975010001 (350 words)

	Valdemar IV Atterdag -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		The counts of Holstein ruled Denmark from 1332 to 1340, when one of them was murdered during a visit to Jutland, and Christopher's son, Valdemar IV Atterdag, was chosen king.
		He married the sister of the duke of South Jutland, who gave the northern quarter of North Jutland as her dowry; he began his reign with the reunion of Denmark as his first priority.
		During the reign of Valdemar and his descendants, the Danes conquered northern Germany and Estonia and dominated the Baltic.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9074667 (753 words)

	Anders Plovgaard: Other Links
		According to legend, the Danish flag 'Dannebrog' fell down from the sky while Valdemar was laying siege to the the Estonian fortress of Lindanise.
		King Christoffer II was forced to make major concessions to the nobles and clergy at the expense of royal power, which was also diminished by the influence of the German Hanseatic League.
		The Danish Queen Margrethe I, a daughter of Valdemar IV, unites all the Nordic countries as a single kingdom, the
	home4.inet.tele.dk /aplov/history2.htm (982 words)

	The Danish-Norwegian Bugge family and its connection to the Klæboe family
		Niels Bugge was also in King Valdemar's company during the military campaign towards Meclenburg and Brandenburg in 1349 and 1350, and he was present at Spremberg and Bautzen when King Valdemar Atterdag negotiated the settlement between Ludvik of Bavaria and Carl IV.
		The same did Duke Valdemar, who was very angry on behalf of his sister, Queen Helvig: The king had had her locked up at Søborg castle.
		Palne Jønson of Stovringgaard was Valdemar Atterdag's marshal from 1354 to 1356.
	siec.winnem.com /neBugge.htm (3086 words)

	A short introduction to the history of Denmark
		Whereas the villages were characterised by the small landowners who were tied to the larger farms, the 13th century saw the rise of a municipal system of government by a council located in cathedral cities and market towns.
		These two were to shape the reign of Valdemar Atterdag (Valdemar IV) in the years between 1340-75.
		It returned in 1360 and 1368-69 and led to a crisis and a number of social changes; in the countryside, many fields and farms were deserted.
	www.teije.nl /scan/den_gesch_en.htm (6774 words)

	Danish Map on Denmark.dk: Map. Find a map of Denmark here (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		The name of the Danish flag, the Dannebrog, meaning 'the flag of the Danes' or 'the red flag', is first encountered in a Danish text from 1478 and in a Netherlandish text from 100 years before that.
		In a Netherlandish armorial (Gelre) from 1370-86 a red banner with a white cross is annexed to the coat of arms of Valdemar IV Atterdag.
		According to legend, the Dannebrog fell from heaven during a battle in Estonia; this legend is mentioned in Christiern Pedersen's Danish Chronicle from the beginning of the 1520s and by the Franciscan monk Peder Olsen c.
	map.denmark.dk (1370 words)

	Duchy Holstein
		In light of Valdemar V’s accession to the throne, Count Gerhard III is invested with the Duchy of Schleswig as a hereditary possession.
		King Valdemar IV Atterdag who reigns from 1340 to 1375 succeeds in redeeming the mortgages and to re-unite most of the country.
		Margaret, the youngest daughter of Valdemar IV and the widow of the Norwegian King Haakon, now assumes the responsibilities of government in Denmark on behalf of her minor son Olav.
	www.gottschfamily.net /duchy.html (3861 words)

	RULERS OF DENMARK (DANMARK)
		Valdemar IV succeeded in defeating the nobles and reasserting royal control, defeated the Hansa in a first conflict in 1363, but an alliance of the Hansa, his neighbors and some of his own barons defeated him in 1370.
		Son of Erich II of Schleswig son of Waldemar IV son of Erich I son of Abel; deposed, died 1364
		Son of Christoffer II Son of Håkon VI of Norway by Margrethe I daughter of Valdemar IV Daughter of Valdemar IV and mother of Oluf III; abdicated, died 1412
	www-personal.umich.edu /~imladjov/DanishRulers.htm (788 words)

	All the Kings of Denmark
		Parents: King Valdemar II and Berengaria of Portugal.
		Parents: King Valdemar IV Atterdag of Denmark and Helvig of Sönderjylland.
		Frederik VIII, Alexandra, Vilhelm (Georgios I of Greece), Dagmar, Thyra, Valdemar.
	www.warholm.nu /Kingdan.html (3351 words)

	Ancestors and Family of Håkon VI Magnusson of Norway
		HAAKON MAGNUSSON THE YOUNGER, Norwegian HÅKON MAGNUSSON DEN YNGRE, king of Norway (1355-80) whose marriage to Margaret, daughter of the Danish king Valdemar IV, in 1363 paved the way for the eventual union (1397) of the three major Scandinavian nations--Denmark, Norway, and Sweden--the Kalmar Union.
		Haakon was deeply embroiled throughout his reign in political conflicts with Sweden, Denmark, and the cities of the north German trading confederation, the Hanseatic League.
		Håkon married Margaret Valdemarsdottir of Denmark, daughter of Valdemar IV Atterdag and Heilwig Ericsdottir, on 9 Apr 1363.
	nygaard.howards.net /files/179.htm (370 words)

	Valdemar
		Akseli Valdemar Gallen-Kallela - Gallen-Kallela, Akseli Valdemar, 1865–1931, Finnish painter.
		The "salutary discomfort" in the case of M. Valdemar.
		Recomposing "Valdemar": Graham Greene reweaves a tale by Poe.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0850331.html (134 words)

	Danebrog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		According to the legend "Danebrog" fell from the sky during "Volmerslaget" - the Volmer battle - close to Lyndanisse on June 15th 1219 (Volmer is the same as Valdemar).
		At that time, the Danish king Valdemar Sejr was on a crusade to Livland - Estonia - on behalf of the Pope to defeat the pagans and secure Estonia for Christianity.
		The Danish King is another Valdemar, Valdemar Atterdag.
	www.geocities.com /armdury/danebrog.html (442 words)

	Kvindelige Danske Magthavere
		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.
		She was the youngest daughter of King Valdemar IV of Denmark.
		At the age of ten she was married to King Håkon VI of Norway, son of Magnus II of Sweden and Norway.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /womeninpower/Danske-Ledere.htm (2160 words)

	Search Results for Valdemar - Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Wends continued their attacks on the Baltic trade and the Danish coast; when the Germans increased their expansion eastward along the Baltic coastline, Valdemar I the Great (1157–82) allied...
		He was the son of Haakon VI and of Margaret (Margrete), daughter of Valdemar IV, king of Denmark.
		The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
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