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  • (b) - The Danish kingdom: consolidation and disintegration

  • from 12 - Towards nationally organised systems of government
  • Edited by Knut Helle, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Scandinavia
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    04 September 2003, pp 353-368

  • Summary

    The killing of Knud Lavard in January 1131 started a period of dynastic strife in Denmark, which ended in 1157 when Valdemar I, became the ruler. His reign and that of his sons, Knud IV and Valdemar II constitute the period when a high medieval kingdom of European type emerged, consolidated by an ordered succession to the throne. The century following Valdemar II's death in 1241 saw political unrest which led to disintegration of the Danish kingdom in Scandinavia. The contrast between the Roskilde Chronicle and Saxo seems to reflect a serious political conflict in twelfth-century Denmark, between the old magnates' families who sought to protect their traditional rights and a new, more effective, and ruthless royal power of which St Knud was an early representative. The Danehof became the forum of negotiations between the king and a group of magnates who often opposed him. The chapter also talks about the Finderup murder of King Erik Klipping in 1286.