James L. Larson Reforming the North; The Kingdoms and Churches of Scandinavia, 1520 1545 (2010)

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.Johann Rantzauheld the peninsula of Jylland.Skaane, Halland, and Blekinge onthe northern peninsula were held by the nobles of Skaane and aSwedish force on behalf of the duke of Holstein.Count Christofferhad appointed Gustaf Trolle, the exiled archbishop of Sweden, state-holder on Fyn and bishop of Odense.On Sj�lland Count Christoffershared power with burghers, L�beckers, and Duke Albrecht s state-holder, Count Johann zur Hoya.Copenhagen and Malm� were ruledby their burghers as free cities.L�beck held Falster with the fortressof Nyk�bing, Helsing�r with the fortress of Krogen, and half the�resund tolls.Rostock held Aalholm and parts of Lolland.And while Count Christoffer s foes concerted future operations byland and sea, dissension prevented the factions in Copenhagen fromtaking countermeasures.Duke Christian sent envoys to Sweden by way of Baahus on thesoutheast coast of Norway.They were to warn Gustaf Vasa of L�beck splans for Sweden, and to request pay and transport for a regiment ofKnechts which would cross the Kattegat from north Jylland to Skaane.The duke asked the king to join the fleet provided by Preussen andenter the waters of eastern Denmark while his own forces crossed tothe larger islands from the west.1The envoys reached Baahus in mid-January.News of the clash atHelsingborg had just come in and convinced Klaus Bille, the com-mander, to declare for Duke Christian.The envoys sent letters to thenorthern and southern divisions of the council in Norway, urgingcouncil lords to come out for Duke Christian; they must not heedhis unorthodox election or use the situation to separate Norway fromDenmark.2Gustaf Vasa received the envoys at �rebro February 2, 1535.Sweden, the king declared, had demonstrated her support with theactions in Halland and Skaane.Of Duke Christian s Knechts, he hadneed of only fifteen hundred; funds for their pay would be ready1Instructions for Lunge and Juel Dec 18 1534, Grevefeidens Aktst, II, 48 53.2Councillors of south Norway to Archb Engelbrektsson Feb 28 1535, ibid., II, 65 66.339340 Civil War, 1533 1536when they landed.As for action at sea, his fleet would join that ofPreussen off Gotland as soon as the waters were open.He needed acompetent naval commander, however, and asked Duke Christian tosend such a man.Financially the king would have liked to help hisbrother-in-law, but his expenses by land and sea were ruinous.3Duke Christian sent Frants Trebau to the Swedish court again thatwinter.Trebau was to ask for 100,000 gylden; without that sum theduke might be forced to sign a separate peace with L�beck.The sumwas enormous, and mention of a separate peace awakened GustafVasal s suspicions.The king refused the request; he did not disposeof the riches reported by rumor.4 As the winter wore on the kingbegan to wonder when the duke s Knechts would cross the Kattegat.5Irritants multiplied and relations between the princes cooled.When Duke Albrecht s commander, Count Hoya, arrived in Copen-hagen, he began to quarrel with Count Christoffer.Early in JanuaryWullenweber and councillors from the four towns came to Copen-hagen to make peace and persuade Christoffer to share the spoils.Their efforts were not particularly successful.Christoffer gave vaguepromises to share his rule and the income of the kingdom if theduke committed his forces and put in an appearance, but he was notinclined to be conciliatory.Joachim von Jetzen, Duke Albrecht s chan-cellor, who had accompanied Wullenweber, reported in February, The count (Christoffer) opposes J�rgen Kock, J�rgen the count;Wullenweber opposes both.nor do the two counts (Christofferand Hoya) agree.There is no order here; no consultation takes placeand in sum nothing goes as it ought. 6troubles on sj�llandAmong commoners feeling against the nobility was running high.The treachery of the nobles in Skaane and the defeat at Helsingborgtriggered a reaction among townsmen and farmers on Sj�lland andthe smaller islands to the south.J�rgen Kock, who had narrowlyescaped capture at Helsingborg, denounced Tyge Krabbe as a per-jured, dishonorable, godless traitor. 73GV s reply to Lunge and Juel, Ibid., II, 53 58; GVto Duke Christian Jan 4 1535, ibid., 1,296 301 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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