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Biography of Waldemar IV
Name: Waldemar IV
Birth Date: c. 1320
Death Date: c. 1375
Place of Birth: Denmark
Nationality: Danish
Gender: Male
Occupations: king
Waldemar IV
Waldemar IV (ca. 1320-1375) reunited the kingdom of Denmark under his rule, presenting a strong, nationalistic challenge to the mercantile Hanseatic League.Waldemar IV was born to a bankrupt crown. In 1320, the year he was born, his father, King Christoffer II, was trading royal power to Denmark's nobles and clergy in an effort to maintain his rule. It was a narrow balancing act that had Christoffer II and his predecessors spending Denmark's wealth and their political resources on fruitless wars within their realm and military campaigns against their own nobility. At the time of Waldemar's birth, the state's creditors were demanding payment.The province of Holstein, one of the wealthiest within the Danish realm, had become one of the leading lenders to the king's court. By 1326, Count Gert of Holstein, had amassed enough wealth and power that he schemed to replace the king with an underage pretender, Valdemar, Duke of Slesvig. …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…fleets. When Waldemar returned home, he honored the terms of the treaty with the Hanseatic League. Finding his realm in disorder, however, he took up arms against the Holsteiners and subdued them and again thwarted their ambitions. The Duke of Slesvig died in 1375, giving Waldemar the chance to retake his lands. Waldemar himself died a few weeks later, at the age of 55, before he could do so. The cause of his death is unknown. Further Reading Oakley, Steward, A Short History of Denmark, Praeger Publishers, 1972.Peterson, Mark. http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/late/central/highpt.html (November 9, 1999). http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/13591.html (November 9, 1999). http://www.lysator.liu.se/nordic/scn/faq33.html (November 9, 1999). http://www.spaceports.com/~mprobert/CF.html (November 9, 1999).http://www.pip.dknet.dk/~pip261/denmark.html (November 9, 1999). http://www.jyu.fi/~jojuto/df_2dutc.html (November 9, 1999). http://www.um.dk/english/danmark/danmarksbog/kap6/6-3.htm (November 9, 1999).
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