Valdemar IV of Denmark
See also: Valdemar
Valdemar IV of Denmark Atterdag ( new day) (1320 - 1375) king de Danemark of 1340 with 1375.
Wire junior by Christophe II of Denmark. He lived in exile in his beautiful brother the margrave Louis de Brandebourg. After the assassination of the Administrator of the Kingdom the duke Gerard III of Holstein and following a negotiated agreement with Spandau in April 1340 and in May of the same year with Lübeck with the dukes of Holstein and his homonym and former king, the duke Valdermar V of Schleswig it was finally elected king de Danemark.
In spite of the initial bargainings of its reign, Valdemar IV deserves its surmom well because it reconquered militarily or repurchased all the territories alienated during the preceding reigns in particular the Fyn, the Scanie, the Halland and the Blekinge. It annexed even in 1361 the two Swedish islands of Öland and Gotland from where the title of king de Goths always carried by its successors.
After the death of his son and heir prince Christophe, the king prepared the dano-Norwegian union by marrying in 1363 his daughter junior Marguerite with the king Håkon VI by Norway.
To get to financial resources king Valdemar in 1346 with the teutonic Chevaliers of Livonie had had to yield the province of Estonia. It also had to accept in 1370 an unfavourable commercial treaty with the Hanse.
Valdermar IV died the October 24th 1375. He had married the June 4th 1340 Heilwig of Schleswig, sister of the duke Valdemar V of Schleswig, died in 1374 of which:
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Ingeborg born in the 1347 dead on June 16th, 1370 marries of Henri Ier of Mecklemburg-Schwerin
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Marguerite I {{Re}} of Denmark
Sources
- Lucien Musset, Scandinavian People with the Middle Ages , PUF, Paris, 1951
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