Duke Christian of Gottorp, his father Frederick…

April 1534 CE

Duke Christian of Gottorp, his father Frederick I having died the previous year, is in 1534 proclaimed King of the Kalmar Union under the name Christian III at an assembly in Rye, a town in eastern Jutland.

Christopher of Oldenburg organizes an uprising against the new king, demanding that Christian II be set free.

Supported by Lübeck and troops from Oldenburg and Mecklenburg, parts of the Zealand and Skåne nobilities rise up, together with cities such as Copenhagen and Malmø.

Count Christopher has the support of most of Zealand, Scania, the Hanseatic League, and the small farmers of northern Jutland and Funen.

Christian III finds his support among the nobles of Jutland.

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Ry Århus Denmark View →

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Christian II View → Christian III View → Christopher, Count of Oldenburg View → Frederick I of Denmark View → Gustav I Vasa View → Henry VIII of England View → Johan Rantzau View → Jürgen Wullenwever View →

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Christians, Roman Catholic View → Schleswig, Duchy of View → Oldenburg, County of View → Lübeck, Free City of View → Mecklenburg, Duchy of View → Hanseatic League View → Holy Roman Empire View → Netherlands, Habsburg View → Lutheranism View → Protestantism View → Kalmar Union (of Denmark and Norway) View → Sweden, (second) Kingdom of View →

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