CK events for Scandinavia

[Aetius]

This thread is intended CK events that take place in Scandinavia.
The meta-thread for CK events is here.

According to Crook in the FAQ-thread, Snowball has started collecting events for Russia.
I was wondering if we should try doing the same. I suppose we should try following a template of sorts, this is a suggestion only:

Event Date
Event Location
Event Name
Event Description
Event Effect in RL (short term)
Source

Sergei points out that event should primarily be of *special* or *less-known* character that enrich the gaming experience. The ideas don't need to be very detailed, which will also allow the developers to tweak the events.

 

[Aetius]

1215
Denmark
Saxo Grammaticus completes the Gesta Danorum
Source Saxo's history was written at the suggestion of Archbishop Absalon of Lund, who died in 1201 before the work was finished, whereupon the historian addressed himself to Absalon's successor Anders, who held the see until 1222.
Originally the work was to be a history of Absalon's own time, but it grew to be a complete history of Denmark from the earliest mythical period to the year 1187. It is written in an elegant, highly ornate Latin which excited the admiration of Erasmus of Rotterdam. The style is carefully modelled on that of the Latin authors of the "Silver Age", especially Valerius Maximus and Martinus Capella.
The work is divided into sixteen books, of which the first nine contain mainly mythological and legendary material, which is presented in uncritical fashion. The last seven, however, relating the events nearer Saxo's time, are historical, and are believed to have been written first. For these he relied on oral communication, especially on Absalon's own reports which, so Saxo tells us, he accepted like a Divine revelation. For the first nine books dealing with Northern antiquity the sources are old Danish poems, Runic inscriptions, and Norwegian-Icelandic sagas. These books possess a special interest for us on account of the ancient legendary material preserved therein, much of which has come down to us in no other form. Among the famous legends found here may be mentioned those of Balder and Hother (Book III), of Amleth (ibid.), the basis of Shakespeare's Hamlet, and of the archer Toko or Palnatoki (Book X), the prototype of the Tell of Swiss legend.

 

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Some suggestions:

1104
With the first archbishop of Lund, Scandinavia was made a separate church province, no longer belonging to Hamburg.

1125
Norwegian "crusade" to Småland gave 1800 heads of cattle

1155
Bishop Henry in Uppsala resumes securing (conquering) of Finland for Catholicism in a "crusade".

1164
A separate arch-bishopric for Sweden was instituted in Uppsala.
Until 1152 the archbishop in the Scanian town Lund in Denmark had been the primate for all of Norden.

1187
Estonians invade and burn Sigtuna

1226
Falu copper mine is opened.

1250
Stockholm becomes the capital, after Birka and Sigtuna, founded by Birger Jarl, Earl of Sweden and 1250-1266 guardian for the under age King Valdemar.

1285
The Swedish King Magnus (Ladulås) claims supremacy over Gotland. ( ...although some kind of relationship between Gotland and the King of Sweden had been the rule for a long time. )

1306
King Birger is imprisoned by his brothers Duke Valdemar and Duke Erik, the so called Håtunaleken

1310-19
Sweden is split in three dutchies after the peace in Helsingborg 1310.

1317
King Birger imprisons his brothers, at a Christmas party, and let them starve to death (the so called Nyköpings gästabud), but is forced to escape out of the country. Crown-prince Magnus is assassinated.

1323
Peace with Novgorod in Nöteborg / Pähkinälinna.

1335
Slavery was abolished (In Sweden).

1344
St. Birgitta (1303-1373), an important opponent to King Magnus and Sweden's most important medieval saint, starts to write down her Heavenly Revelations and decides to start a convent in Vadstena. The Brigittine Order exists even today in many countries.


1350
The Black Death (the Plague) reaches Sweden
The first Swedish national law replaced the local landskapslagar.

1362
Finland's status as an equal part of the realm is confirmed by participation in election of king.

 

[Aetius]

Some critique

These I don't think make good events because they require a war to be fought, if you can find the reason for the war then that would be a good event

Originally posted by Wasa
1187
Estonians invade and burn Sigtuna

1310-19
Sweden is split in three dutchies after the peace in Helsingborg 1310.

1323
Peace with Novgorod in Nöteborg / Pähkinälinna.

These I am a bit unsure about especially the imprisonments. What is the reason cited by Magnus for the supremacy over Gotland?

Originally posted by Wasa
1285
The Swedish King Magnus (Ladulås) claims supremacy over Gotland. ( ...although some kind of relationship between Gotland and the King of Sweden had been the rule for a long time. )

1306
King Birger is imprisoned by his brothers Duke Valdemar and Duke Erik, the so called Håtunaleken

1317
King Birger imprisons his brothers, at a Christmas party, and let them starve to death (the so called Nyköpings gästabud), but is forced to escape out of the country. Crown-prince Magnus is assassinated.

These ones look promising:

Originally posted by Wasa
1335
Slavery was abolished (In Sweden).

1344
St. Birgitta (1303-1373), an important opponent to King Magnus and Sweden's most important medieval saint, starts to write down her Heavenly Revelations and decides to start a convent in Vadstena. The Brigittine Order exists even today in many countries.

1350
The Black Death (the Plague) reaches Sweden
The first Swedish national law replaced the local landskapslagar.

1362
Finland's status as an equal part of the realm is confirmed by participation in election of king.

 

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Some critique of critique

I am not saying that all would be implemented as game events, only suggests that these are possible.

1187 Not a regular war. This was like a Viking raid, only reversed. After that Sigtuna never played any important role in swedish history

1306,1310 and 1317 dynastic troubles

 

[Endre Fodstad]

Some more events, possible and impossible to implement in game.

1080 Knut the Holy's attempts to strengthen the monarchy(DA)

may trigger:

1086 murder of Knut the Holy, is granted sainthood.

1095 Call to Crusade!

1104 Archbishopric of Lund established.

1123 Swedes elect three seperate kings(one danish), kingdom fragments(Vestragötaland, Östragötaland, Svealand)

1130 Civil War period begins in Norway after the death of Sigurd Jorsalfar.

1137 Murder of Erik Emune in Denmark.

1145 Call to Crusade!

1150 Civil War in Sweden

1152 Frederick Barbraossa supports Sven Grathe in succession war.

1152 Archbishopric of Nidaros(Trondheim) established.

1161 Norwegian hereditary monarchy established with support of the archbishop of Nidaros and the church of Rome.

1167 Possible Norwegian support of Swedish pretender(CB?)

1179 Formal establishment of norwegian hereditary monarchy, Sverre forces the archbishop to crown him. Excommunication of Sverre, Norway placed under (ineffective) interdict.

1184 Archbishop Absalon of Lund supports Danish' crowns independence from the Emperor. War with the Empire, Absalon grants aid.

1187 Founding of Stockholm after the destruction of Sigtuna by pirates.

1188 Call to Crusade!

1198 Succession crisis in Sweden.

1201 Danish war with Holstein and the Hansa.

1201 Call to Crusade!

1208 Rebellion in Sweden. Possible hereditary monarchy if right side wins.

1217 Call to Crusade!

1217 Formal end of civil wars in Norway. Conciliation Church/Kingdom leads to strong monarchy and weak church control.

1219 Call to Crusade!

1222 Civil War in Sweden. Temporary banishment of king.

1227 War between Denmark/ northern HRE.

1241 Succession struggles in Denmark, church rises in prominence.

1249 Meeting of realm in Skanninge(Sweden). Establishment of formal church authority and rules(ex. celibacy for priests).

1256 First known general council of the German Hansa

1261 Greenland annexed by Norway.

1262( i think) Jyske Lov

1263 War Norway/Scotland over northern scottish islands(Hebrides). Settlement possible.

1265 Landsloven in Norway
Between 1260 and 1280: The "Hirdskraa" written in Norway.

1270 Call to Crusade!

Between 1270 and 1290: The "King's Mirror" written in Norway.

1279 Magnus Ladelås established swedish' nobles exemption from taxes, forms the basis of future knighthood tradition. Curbs swedish nobles.

1280 Possible conflict church/state Norway.

1286 Murder of Erik Klipping in Denmark. Conflict church/state in Denmark.

1293 Founding of Viborg.

1299 Aristocracy curbed in Norway. The king now dominates both the aristocracy and the church.

1312 Order of the Templars declared dissolved by pope. Possible to receive Templars fleeing persecution.

1317 Murder of Duke Erik and Duke Valdemar. Rebellion against kingship by swedish nobles, supported by Norway.

1319 Union on Kings Norway-Sweden

1326 Growth of German influence in internal Danish politics.

1340 Rebellion against german influence in Denmark.

1348 The Black Death reaches Denmark.

1349 The Black Death reaches Norway.

1350 The Black Death reaches Sweden.

1362 1st Danish-Hansa War.

1363 Norwegian-Swedish King dethroned, replaced by Albrecht of Meckleburg.

1368 2nd Danish-Hansa War.

1376 Håkon 6(NO)and Margareta(DA)'s son Oluf crowned king in Denmark.

1380 Death of Håkon 6. Norway and Denmark joined in personal Union.

1387 Margareta the Great elected Queen of Denmark-Norway.

1388 Margareta the Great defeats swedish king Albrecht, Sweden joins Union.

1397 The Union of Kalmar. Erik of Pommern elected king of the Union, to succeed Margareta(at her death in 1412).

1417 Copenhagen capital of Denmark.

1420 Likely end of the colonies in Greenland

1429 The Sound Due established

1434 Engelbrekt's rebellion in Sweden. Companion rebellion in Norway.

1438 Erik of Pommern abdicates.

EF

 

[Havard]

Originally posted by Endre Fodstad
1161 Norwegian hereditary monarchy established with support of the archbishop of Nidaros and the church of Rome.

Wasn't that Archbishops Øystein's rules of succession from 1164? AFAIK the monarchy was hereditary before this, the new rules only established that there could only be one king (no co-kings), that the candidates had to be legitimate and that they should be elected by a council and not the ting's.

1179 Formal establishment of norwegian hereditary monarchy, Sverre forces the archbishop to crown him. Excommunication of Sverre, Norway placed under (ineffective) interdict.

AFAIK Sverre was excommunicated in 1195 by Celestin III, and interdicted (is that a word?) the following year by his successor Innocens III.

1261 Greenland annexed by Norway.

And even more important:
1262 Iceland acnowledge the Norwegian king as their suzerain.

 

[Aetius]

Endre Fodstad and Wasa, could you provide some more info on each event? I am pretty rusty on Scandinavian history so further details of the events you mention would be really nice...

 

[Endre Fodstad]

Originally posted by Havard

Wasn't that Archbishops Øystein's rules of succession from 1164?

AFAIK Sverre was excommunicated in 1195 by Celestin III, and interdicted (is that a word?) the following year by his successor Innocens III.

1262 Iceland acnowledge the Norwegian king as their suzerain.

My Bad. Doing this with a minimum of reference books available(that is, none). Do you, by any chance, remember the (assumed) dating of the Hirdskraa and King's Mirror? My copies of both are back in Norway.

I'll try to squeeze in time for extrapolation on the proposed events. Would of course greatly appreciate help.

EF

 

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Kings Mirror or Speculum regale was written around 1250

 

[Havard]

Originally posted by Endre Fodstad


My Bad. Doing this with a minimum of reference books available(that is, none). Do you, by any chance, remember the (assumed) dating of the Hirdskraa and King's Mirror? My copies of both are back in Norway.

I am not sure, but I thought the Hirdskraa you are talking about was done together with the Landslov (Law) in 1274/5 (not in 1265 as you list). Does anyone really know when Konungs skuggsjå was written?

I'll try to squeeze in time for extrapolation on the proposed events. Would of course greatly appreciate help.

I'll see what I can do on some of these...

 

[Torkel]

Originally posted by Endre Fodstad

1187 Founding of Stockholm after the destruction of Sigtuna by pirates.
EF

What's your source? Sadly, this myth has no evidence to either prove or disprove it.
Stockholm was granted City priveleges in 1252, (+750=2002) which is why we're gonna party come june
As for the actuall first settlements and fortifications on the city-isle, nothing can be confirmed

 

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Sigtuna was burned down by Estonian Vikings coming from Ösel (Saarema) in 1187, the same year they also burned Earl Jon of Askanäs (Ekerö)

Stockholm was founded 1252

 

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* 1151
* Iceland
* Insurances
* In 1151, the first known fire and plague insurance was offered.
* +1 province income?
* Source: http://timelines.ws/1100_1199.HTML

 

[kurtbrian]

1262( i think) Jyske Lov

signed by Valdemar the Victorious in march 1241

1219 dannebrog falls from the sky in estland

1223 Valdemar imprisoned by Henrik of Schwerin along with his son. Captured during a hunt at the samll island of Lyø. forced to cede huge tracts of land

 

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Not the Dannebrog again..


Endre Fodstad: 1438 Erik abdicates..and sets up a pirates base in Gotland, Kristofer of Bavaria and Erik fights a war of piracy..

 

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lots and lots of raid on the coast areas of Denmark and sweden by heathen pirates (ala viking raid) almost every summer, on Denmark untill the Wagrians, Abotries, Polabians Rugians, Liutzians and Pomeranians has come under christian control, for Sweden untill the rest of the baltic coast is under christian control (meaning the above plus Prussians, Curonians, Letts, Liv and Estonians.
Then landraids by Lithuanians, Vods, Karelians, Tavastians, Suomi and Lapps on all who border them.

From game start untill these "heaten" nations had been dealt with, it was extremly dangerous to live in the coastal areas of the baltic and one of the reasons for the danes to start these crusades against the heatens, was to stop the pirates and to get the people back who had been brought into slavery. That they very merely doing to us what we had done to the Brits and Irish (might be called poetic justice).

 

[Styrbiorn]

Originally posted by Escalus

<cut>. That they very merely doing to us what we had done to the Brits and Irish (might be called poetic justice).

Also remember that the Swedes and to a lesser extent the Danes had been raiding and looting and gathered slaves among those people in the Eastern Baltic during the Viking Age, so yes, we can call it poetic justice

 

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Originally posted by Escalus
lots and lots of raid on the coast areas of Denmark and sweden by heathen pirates (ala viking raid) almost every summer, on Denmark untill the Wagrians, Abotries, Polabians Rugians, Liutzians and Pomeranians has come under christian control, for Sweden untill the rest of the baltic coast is under christian control (meaning the above plus Prussians, Curonians, Letts, Liv and Estonians.
Then landraids by Lithuanians, Vods, Karelians, Tavastians, Suomi and Lapps on all who border them.

From game start untill these "heaten" nations had been dealt with, it was extremly dangerous to live in the coastal areas of the baltic and one of the reasons for the danes to start these crusades against the heatens, was to stop the pirates and to get the people back who had been brought into slavery. That they very merely doing to us what we had done to the Brits and Irish (might be called poetic justice).

Certainly not Lapps (Sapmi), they were peaceful, you also forgot the Kvens..they lived according to Thorold Kvedulfsson, east of the Lapps (Sapmi) and west of the Karelians, also peaceful in their relations with Scandinavians, Norse (and probably Swedes) used to cooperate with the Kvens in raiding Karelian territory..

 

[Vandelay]

AFAIK the date of Stockholm´s founding is unknown. The earliest mention of Stockholm is in a letter by Birger Jarl dated 1252 which is why we party come summer. This means only that Stockholm was an existing town in 1252 NOT that this was it´s foundation date. The inference is though that Birger Jarl founded Stockholm sometime prior to 1252.

There´s a story circulating already in the medieval period that after the Estonians burned down Sigtuna in 1187 the surviving Sigtunians cast a log (from a house?, a church?, can´t remember) into Lake Mälaren and said that wherever it hit land they would build a new town. The log ended up on Stockholm - this is probably just an etymological myth as (Swedish) stock= (English) log and holm= island.

Thera are archaeological evidence of a kastal (fortified tower) erected (where Tre Krono later was built) in late 12th century prior to any town being chartered.

Cheers,
Vandelay