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)
Date 1501–12 Location Scandinavia Result Treaty of Malmö: Sweden and Lübeck agree to pay contribution to Denmark
Belligerents
Sweden Norwegian rebels (1501-1504) Free City of Lübeck (1509-12)	Kalmar Union  Denmark  Norway
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