Valdemar II of Denmark
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The Danish king who pushed his realm's borders farther than any predecessor - into northern Germany, across the Baltic to Estonia - and gave his country a legal code that outlasted him by four centuries.
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Valdemar II Valdemarsen took the throne in 1202 and immediately looked outward. In 1207 he invaded and conquered Lübeck and Holstein, pulling Danish power deep into German lands. He meddled in Norway's succession crisis, triggering the second Bagler War and forcing the Norwegian king into allegiance. Rome pushed back when he tried to control church appointments in Bremen and Schleswig, but he kept pressing. In 1219 he established Danish rule in Estonia, planting his flag on the eastern Baltic shore. At home he imported the feudal system and commissioned the Code of Jutland, a legal framework that governed Denmark until 1683. He died in 1241 after thirty-nine years on the throne, having stretched Denmark farther than it had ever reached.
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