Both Mälmo and Copenhagen hold out until…

July 1536 CE

Both Mälmo and Copenhagen hold out until 1536, when they are forced to capitulate after several months' siege.

The blockade of Copenhagen maintained by Danish forces loyal to Christian III finally force the surrender of Count Christopher of Oldenburg in July, 1536, allowing Christian to take control of the entire kingdom.

With this, the Count's Feud is officially over.

Under the Treaty of Hamburg, Lübeck, which, with its Hanseatic allies, retains its trading rights, will hold the Danish island of Bornholm for fifty years as repayment for the war’s expenses.

Count Christopher is forced to swear never to again set foot on Danish territory and is returned home to northern Germany.

Christian III convokes the Diet of Copenhagen, which establishes a state-supported Evangelical Lutheran church in Denmark and imposes it on Norway.

In the aftermath of the Count’s feud, the nobles regroup and heal the rifts through intermarriage.

One of the most powerful among the Danish nobility in Skåne at this time is the Bille family, who are tied through blood relations to seven of the eight Catholic bishops of Denmark.

The Billes also have six family members on the Council of the Realm and own castles throughout Denmark and Norway.

In order to keep the family's powerful position, in spite of the religious affiliation with the Catholic faith, Claus Bille (of Stockholm Bloodbath fame, second cousin to Gustav Vasa), protects the family by forming a political alliance through marriage with the Brahe family, another powerful Scanian family among the Danish nobility at this time.

The Brahe family is one of the first among the nobility to convert to Lutheranism.

Claus Bille gives his eighteen-year-old daughter Beate in marriage to Otte Brahe, and will thus became a grandfather in 1546 to the perhaps most famous Scanian of the era, the astronomer Tyge Brahe, better known as Tycho Brahe.

Tycho Brahe's paternal grandfather, whom he was named after, Tyge Brahe of Tosterup in eastern Skåne, had been killed on September 7, 1523 during the siege of Malmø, fighting for Frederick I. Axel Brahe, the brother of the older Tyge Brahe, had served as governor of Scania for a long period, and was one of the first to convert to Lutheranism.

In contrast, the consequences of the peasant uprising cost all parties dearly.

Many are forced to purchase their lives with great gifts both to the king and to the nobles.

Moreover, the dissatisfactions of the peasants, which had culminated in the uprising of the Count's Feud, are only made worse, as the nobility begins to stick together even more after this incident.

Moreover, Christian III's rule, ushered in by this war, will see the rise of royal absolutism in Denmark, and, with it, greater repression of the peasant classes.