Denmark - Medieval, Vikings, Trade | Britannica
Dec 10, 2024 · During the course of what historians have called the High Middle Ages, beginning about the 11th century, the political, social, and economic structures that scholars have associated with medieval European society came to Denmark, as …
History of Denmark - Wikipedia
The Old English poems Widsith and Beowulf, as well as works by later Scandinavian writers — notably by Saxo Grammaticus (c. 1200) — provide some of the earliest references to Danes.
List of Danish monarchs - Wikipedia
This is a list of Danish monarchs, that is, the kings and queen regnants of Denmark. This includes: The Kingdom of Denmark (up to 1397) Personal union of Denmark and Norway (1380–1397) The Kalmar Union (1397–1536) Union of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (1397–1523) Union of Denmark and Norway (1523–1536/1537)
Euratlas Periodis Web - Map of Denmark in Year 1200
Online historical atlas showing a map of Europe at the end of each century from year 1 to year 2000. Map of Denmark in year 1200.
Denmark - Medieval, Vikings, Trade | Britannica
Dec 10, 2024 · Denmark - Medieval, Vikings, Trade: The battle between nobles and kings largely defined late medieval politics. Following the murder of King Erik V in 1286, the guardians of Erik’s heir, Erik VI, still a minor, consolidated their power around the young prince and established a nearly absolutist regime.
World History 1200-1300 AD - Historycentral
1282 King Of Denmark Accepts Limitation Of Power- Danish nobility forced Eric V to sign a Danish "Magna Carta". This document established a Danish parliament that met once each year. The King was made subordinate to the Parliament.
3.3.1 Denmark: A Chronology Of Important Dates 1200-1800
Queen Margrete of Norway and Denmark unites all the Nordic countries as a single kingdom, the Kalmar Union, under the under-age Eric of Pomerania, who is crowned in Kalmar 1397.
Medieval Scandinavia: The Rise and Fall of the Danish Kingdom
Jul 12, 2020 · Frankish sources mention Danish kings by name as early as the ninth century, and archaeological evidence suggests that Denmark was a single entity by the 700s.
How big was Denmark in the Viking period? - National Museum of Denmark
Based upon, amongst other things, the archaeological evidence, it is believed that the population of the area now occupied by Denmark was around 500,000 in the year 800 AD. This steadily increased until the 1200s, when the population reached c. 1 million.
Valdemar II | King of Denmark, Law of Jutland | Britannica
Valdemar II was the king of Denmark (1202–41) who, between 1200 and 1219, extended the Danish Baltic empire from Schleswig in the west to include lands as far east as Estonia. In his later years he worked to unify Denmark’s legal and administrative systems.
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