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The Count`s Feud
A Lbsk army under count Christoffer of Oldenburg landed in Zealand. The poor crowded around the count, who proclaimed, that he came to free king Christian, help citizens and peasants to fredom and protect the Gospel. The nobility had to calm down and praise the count in the name of Christian 2nd. Fast Christian 2nds supporters became masters over Zealand, Skne, Funen and the northern part of Jutland, where Skipper Clement incited his fellow countrymen to fight.
But already before it came so far, the circumstances had maid it necessary for the Council to give the country a king. Mogens Gj called together the Jutlandic nobility for a meating in Ry Church 1534 and proposed to elect count Christian. But still the Council was reserved to elect the traitor, and first when the common nobility, who was gathered at the church yard, threatened to enter the church, and use force, they accepted.
Christian 3rd, however, had to fight a fierce war, before he became master in his kingdom. It was troops from south of Jutland, led by Johan Rantzau, who brought his cause to victory. First he conquered lborg and cowed the Vendelboers. In the rebellious counties many private peasants had to give away their reight of property and become leaseholders.
In the year 1535 he went to Funen and defeated the Lbecker at ksnebjerg. Gustav Vasa and Christian 3rds brother-in-law count Albrecht of Preussen sent ships for help, and the united fleet, for which the Jutlandic nobility Peder Skram, Denmarks Daredevil, was one of the most important leaders, defeated the Lbeck fleet, so that the king could cross over to Zealand and counquer Copenhagen.
At the same time Skne was brought to obedience toward Christian 3rd by Gustav Vasa, whose power would also have been threatened, if Christian 2nd again held Denmarks crown. In Lbeck the merchant nobility again got the upper hand, Wullenwever was overthrown, and the city made peace with Christian 3rd.
But Copenhagen endured siege a full year, as count Christoffer and Ambrosius Bogbinder with force knocked down any talk of surrender. At long last, when the city was totally devoided of food, and many starved to death, it surrendered (1536).
Ambrosius committed suicide, whereas Jrgen Kok turned out to join the king.
The counts feud is the last attempt by Denmarks peasants to practice political influence. From now on they submitted without joint resistance to any new burden, which was imposed on them. The citizents had suffered defeat, which, however, was diminished by the fact, that they in religious matters had been standing at the same side as the victor. The bishops had to yild to the Lutherske nobelmen. But also the nobility had lost by this war. The peasants had burned down many manors and chased them away or killed several nobility, and order had been restored, not by way of the nobilitys own power, but by the king, which a great part of the nobility only reluctant had supported.
When the war ended there were neither Council nor nobility, but the king, and his Holstenske warlords, who were the victors. Lbeck never recovered from its defeat and in the future had to abandon any superpower politics. The wold trade now was centred in Western Europe, and the city became a trading city of second rank.
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