Christian II of Denmark
King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
- Fame56.2
- Momentum1.1
- Norway rank#208
- Fame56.2
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- Norway rank#208
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He took Sweden by force in 1520, then ordered a massacre of its elite so brutal the country threw him out within a year. The Stockholm Bloodbath cost Christian II three kingdoms, his family, and the next twenty-seven years of his life in a castle cell.
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Christian II became King of Denmark and Norway in 1513, jointly ruling the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein with his uncle Frederick. He spent five years at war trying to hold the Kalmar Union together, finally capturing Sweden in 1520. The Stockholm Bloodbath — his slaughter of Swedish nobility and churchmen — triggered a rebellion led by Gustav Vasa that drove him out within a year. In 1521–22 he pushed a radical reform strengthening commoners against nobles and clergy; the Danish nobility rose in 1523 and exiled him to the Netherlands, handing the throne to his uncle. When he tried to recl…
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