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Valdemar was born in 1170 and made king in 1202. He was made Duke of Schleswig. This led to a conflict with the regent of Schleswig, Valdemar Knudsen. Duke Valdemar win this, and imprisoned the bishop for 14 years until he was released and exiled to Rome. Another rebellion was launched by Adolf III of Holstein.
Several methods of determining guilt or innocence were outlawed, including trial by ordeal and trial by combat. The Code of Jutland (Jyske Lov) was approved at the meeting of the nobility at Vordingborg Castle in 1241, just prior to Valdemar's death there. Valdemar was buried next to his first wife, Queen Dagmar, at Ringsted in Zealand.
She placed her meeting with science fiction at age 10 or 11, when she picked up her father's copy of James H. Schmitz's Agent of Vega. She then read Andre Norton's Beast Master and Lord of Thunder and continued to read all of Norton's works. Lackey had difficulties obtaining enough interesting books from the public library to sate her passion ...
The Treaty of Stensby was an agreement between king Valdemar II of Denmark and the Teutonic Order, signed on 7 June 1238 in Stensby on the island of Zealand in Denmark, [1] and confirmed by Innocent IV in September 1243. [1] The arrangement transferred northern maritime Estonia to the Kingdom of Denmark in exchange for military support. [2]
The siege was reportedly so short because a fire broke out beneath one of the fortress's towers, forcing the Wendish defenders to divert a significant portion of their manpower in order to put out the fire. Seeing this, the bishop Absalon urged the King to attack the fortress, and so King Valdemar began a full assault.
Valdemar IV Atterdag (the epithet meaning "Return of the Day"), Valdemar Christoffersen or Waldemar (c. 1320 – 24 October 1375) was King of Denmark from 1340 to 1375. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is mostly known for his reunion of Denmark after the bankruptcy and mortgaging of the country to finance wars under previous rulers.
Valdemar Magnusson (c. 1285 – 1318) was a Swedish prince, heir to the throne of Sweden, and the duke of Finland. Background. Valdemar was born c. 1285. [1] He was ...
Map of Scandinavia in 1219 — Danish occupied areas shown in light green. The (second) Battle of Bornhöved took place on 22 July 1227 near Bornhöved in Holstein.Count Adolf IV of Schauenburg and Holstein — leading an army consisting of troops from the cities of Lübeck and Hamburg, Dithmarschen, Holstein, and various Northern German nobles, defeated King Valdemar II of Denmark and the ...