Eric V of Denmark

Eric V Klipping (1249–1286) became king of Denmark in 1259 on his father Christopher I's death; his mother Margaret Sambiria acted as regent until 1266. Captured by the Holsteiners in 1261, he was held at the Brandenburg court, and in 1273 married Agnes of Brandenburg. He curbed the church but antagonised the nobles, who in 1282 forced him to accept Denmark's first coronation charter limiting royal power.

In 1286 he was hacked to death in a barn at Finderup; Stig Andersen Hvide and other magnates were outlawed.