Denmark
Denmark was a kingdom based on Jutland and Zealand. By 1337 the crown was at a low ebb: under Christopher II much of the realm had been mortgaged to magnates and Scania sold to Sweden.
Elected in 1340, Valdemar IV restored royal power, but conceded privileges to the Hanseatic League at Stralsund in 1370. His daughter Margaret I united Denmark, Norway and Sweden in the Kalmar Union in 1397. Sweden broke away in 1523, and Denmark adopted Lutheranism in 1536. The Treaty of Roskilde ceded Skåneland in 1658; the Treaty of Kiel separated Norway from Denmark in 1814.
Characters
- Abel of Denmark
- Buris Henriksen
- Canute Henriksen
- Canute IV of Denmark
- Canute Lavard
- Canute V of Denmark
- Canute VI of Denmark
- Christopher II of Denmark
- Christopher I of Denmark
- Christopher of Jutland
- Eric Christoffersen of Denmark
- Eric I of Denmark
- Eric II of Denmark
- Eric III of Denmark
- Eric IV of Denmark
- Eric I of Schleswig
- Eric V of Denmark
- Eric VI of Denmark
- Estrid Svendsdatter
- Gorm the Old
- Harald Bluetooth
- Harald III Hen of Denmark
- Henrik Skadelår
- Niels of Denmark
- Olaf I Hunger of Denmark
- Otto, Duke of Lolland and Estonia
- Ragnhild Eriksdatter
- Saxo Grammaticus
- Svend Tronkræver
- Sweyn II Estridsson of Denmark
- Sweyn III of Denmark
- Valdemar I of Denmark
- Valdemar II of Denmark
- Valdemar III of Schleswig
- Valdemar IV of Schleswig
- Valdemar the Young