Dano-Hanseatic War (1426–1435)
| Dano-Hanseatic War (1426–1435) | |||||||||
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| Part of the Danish–Hanseatic rivalry | |||||||||
Hanseatic ships in front of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1428 | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Holstein-Rendsburg Victual Brothers Co-belligerent: |
Supported by: Pomerania-Barth Parts of Schleswig | ||||||||
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Henry IV † Gerhard VII # Adolf VIII Johann Kletze Tidemann Steen Johann Beere Jakob Bramstede Jan Russenberg Tideman Soling Johann Bere Nikolaus von der Lippe Johann Bantzkow |
Eric VII Queen Philippa # Kurd von Hagen Greger Magnusson Barnim VIII | ||||||||
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260 ships
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114 ships 3,000 men | ||||||||
The Dano-Hanseatic War, also known as the Kalmar War with the Hanseatic League, or the Danish-Hanseatic War of 1426-1435, was an armed trade conflict between the Danish-dominated Kalmar Union (Denmark, Norway, Sweden) and the Hanseatic League led by the Free City of Lübeck.
When Kalmar King Eric opened the Baltic trade routes for Dutch ships and introduced a new toll for all foreign ships passing the Oresund (Sound Dues), six Hanseatic cities (Hamburg, Lübeck, Lüneburg, Rostock, Stralsund, Wismar) declared war, put a naval blockade on Scandinavian harbors and allied with Eric's enemy, Henry IV, count of Holstein. Therefore the war was intensively linked with the Dutch–Hanseatic War, the Kalmar War with Holstein, and the Swedish revolt of 1434-1436.