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