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King Frederik X started the new year by revealing his new royal coat of arms, which for five centuries has featured the three crowns of the Kalmar Union — a polity that existed from 1397 to 1523 ...
The Kalmar Union [a] was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden as designed by Queen Margaret of Denmark. From 1397 to 1523, [1] it joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden (then including much of present-day Finland), and Norway, together with Norway's overseas colonies [b] (then including Iceland, Greenland, [c] the Faroe Islands, and the ...
The Danish king has changed the country’s royal coat of arms to display symbols of Greenland and the Faroe Islands more prominently – in an apparent rebuke to Donald Trump.. King Frederik has ...
However, Denmark would not forget its defeat in the war. Along with Sweden and Norway, both of which worried of the growing German influence pushing into Scandinavia, Denmark would go on to ratify the Kalmar Union, which itself would be a major competitor of the Hanseatic League and a major factor in its eventual decline by the 17th century.
Wars involving the Kalmar Union (1 P) This page was last edited on 26 January 2025, at 22:21 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The Dano-Hanseatic War, also known as the Kalmar War with the Hanseatic League, or the Danish-Hanseatic War of 1426-1435, was an armed trade conflict between the Danish-dominated Kalmar Union (Denmark, Norway, Sweden) and the Hanseatic League led by the Free City of Lübeck. [1]
The news quickly spread to many Swedish nobles who saw this as an opportunity to break with Danish rule, and in August 1501 an uprising thereof broke out. [2] John hurried to Denmark in order to raise an army, while Queen Christina of Saxony would defend Tre Kronor castle and Stockholm. [2] A German Landsknecht from between 1500 and 1550. A big ...
The Kalmar Union (1379−1523) — a Late Middle Ages union of the three kingdoms of Medieval Denmark, Medieval Norway and Medieval Sweden under one monarch.