Christophe II of Denmark

Christophe II of Denmark (September 29th 1276 - August 2nd 1332) was king de Danemark of 1319 with 1326 and of 1330 with 1332.

Christophe II is the second wire of Eric V of Denmark and Agnes de Brandebourg.

In 1294, it is charged by his brother the king Eric VI with Denmark with stopping the archbishop Jens Grand. In 1303 it is invested duchy of Estland (Estonia) although it took the party of the enemies of the king. In 1307 it exchanges this stronghold against the southernmost Halland and the island of Samsø. It is armed knight at the time of a great tournament with Rostock in 1311.

After the death of his brother, he is elected king in January 1320. N the other hand, it must accept a new capitulation in which it recognizes the prevalent position of the Danish and German tycoons in the kingdom and reduces its possibilities of resorting to new taxes.

In 1321 it makes nevertheless recognize his Erik oldest son like heir and is made crown with him in 1324. On this occasion, it receives the homage of the dukes and the counts de Schleswig, of Rügen, Holstein and Mecklembourg. Since 1325 with died of the duke Erik II of Schleswig, the supervision of the young person Valdemar V of Schleswig opposes it to Gerard III of Holstein, said the Large count de Holstein-Rensburg, the maternal uncle of this last and it is overcome in Gottorp by the count de Holstein.

The following year, Gerard III invades Denmark, seizes the crown prince Erik and deposits the king Christophe II who takes refuge in Mecklembourg with his others wire. In June 1326, Gerard III fact of electing king his pupil Valdemar de Schleswig, 11 years old under the name of Valdemar III of Denmark. It starts to cut up the country which it controls de facto.

In 1329 Christophe II engages with his half-brother Jean III of Holstein known as of Plön, wire of Agnes de Brandebourg and Gerard II of Holstein, known as the Blind man count de Holstein-Plön, the islands of Lolland and Falster to raise an army with which it occupies Falster then Sjælland.

It returns to Copenhagen in 1330 and delivers his son. But it must then engage Sjælland and the Scanie with its ally Jean III of Holstein and restore the Schleswig with the young person Valdemar III of Denmark which is détrôné. By the treaty of Ribe it also invested Gerard III of Holstein of Fyn on a purely hereditary basis and is mortaged to him most of the Jutland.

The two counts de Holstein who hold the kingdom in supervision oppose and on November 30th, 1331, the party of Jean de Holstein and the king is beaten in Lohede close to Schleswig by Gerard III. The crown prince Erik is mortally wounded during the combat.

In June 1332, Jean de Holstein, who does not manage to impose his authority on the Scanie, yields with the agreement of the archbishop of Lund all the provinces of the east to the Sweden.

Christophe II remains the king only of one scattered field composed of pieces of the kingdom. He lost any authority and of simple noble of Saxkjoebing put fire at the house in which he resides and do it captive. August 2nd, 1332, Christophe II dies in the island of Lolland. He is buried in the church of Soro.

Gerard III of Holstein leaves the throne then empties and directs Denmark during 8 years as from 1332 with the title of Administrator of the Kingdom.

Christophe II had married in 1307 Euphémia, died in 1330, girl of the duke Bogislav IV of Poméranie from where:

Erik crown prince which had married in 1330 Elisabeth de Holstein a girl of the count Gerard III but had divorced in the 1131 died same year.

Othon duke of Lolland and Estland (Estonia) claiming with the throne makes captive by Gerard III of Holstein to the battle of Taphede close to Viborg in 1334

Valdemar IV of Denmark

Marguerite, born in 1305, wife in December 1324 of the Margrave Louis de Brandebourg says Old the

Agnes (+1312)

Hedwige

Sources

Scandinavian People with the Middle Ages. Lucien Musset PUF (1951)

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