Dano-Swedish War (1501–1512)

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

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