Dano-Swedish War (1501–1512)

The Dano-Swedish War from 1501 to 1512 was a military conflict between Denmark and Sweden within the Kalmar Union.

Danish–Swedish–Hanseatic War
Part of Dano-Swedish Wars

Svante Sture's War with Denmark
(Swedish imagination of 1888)
Date1501–12
Location
Scandinavia
Result Treaty of Malmö: Sweden and Lübeck agree to pay contribution to Denmark
Belligerents
 Sweden
Free City of Lübeck (from 1509)
Norwegian rebels (to 1504)

 Kalmar Union

Commanders and leaders

 Sten Sture (†1503)
 Svante Sture
 Hemming Gadh
 Knut Alvsson (†1502)

 Nils Ravaldsson

 King John
 Queen Christina

 Henrich Krummedige

The war began with a Swedish and a Norwegian revolt against King John and the siege of Queen Christina in her castle in Danish-held Stockholm. The Norwegian revolt was crushed in 1504.

Fighting intensified in 1509 and 1510 when the German city of Lübeck and the Hanseatic League helped Sweden to conquer Danish-held Kalmar and Borgholm. The recently established Danish Navy fought joint Hanseatic-Swedish naval forces at Nakskov and Bornholm in 1510 and 1511. In April 1512, a peace agreement was signed in Malmö.

Literature
  • George Childs Kohn (Hrsg.): Dictionary of Wars, page 142f. Routledge 2013
  • Hanno Brand (ed.): Trade, Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange – Continuity and Change in the North Sea Area and the Baltic 1350–1750, page 115ff. Uitgeverij Verloren, Hilversum 2005
  • Franklin Daniel Scott: Sweden, the Nation's History, page 99ff. SIU Press, 1988
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