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| | VALDEMAR IV. OF DENMARK - LoveToKnow Article on VALDEMAR IV. OF DENMARK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | 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. |
 | | But Valdemar was by no means disposed to submit to their dictation, and political conjunctures now brought about actual hostilities between Valdemar and the Hansa, or at least that portion of it known as the Wendish Towns,1 whose commercial interests lay principally in the Baltic. |
 | | Valdemar's skilful diplomacy, reinforced by golden arguments, did indeed induce the dukes of Brunswick, Brandenburg and Pomerania to attack the confederates in the rear; but fortune was persistently unfriendly to the Danish king, 1 Rostock, Greifswald, Wismar and Stralsund. |
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