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Apr 12, 2024 · Valdemar II was the king of Denmark (1202–41) who, between 1200 and 1219, extended the Danish Baltic empire from Schleswig in the west to include lands as far east as Estonia. In his later years he worked to unify Denmark’s legal and administrative systems.
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Valdemar’s success convinced the powerful Saxon duke Henry the Lion that he would make a useful ally in combined operations against the Wends, with the Saxons attacking them by land and the Danes attacking from the sea.
In May of 1223 Count Henry of Schwerin captured King Valdemar II of Denmark and his son and co-regent, Valdemar III, while they were hunting on the small island of Ly#.
Jul 14, 2021 · M. Valdemar, who has resided principally at Harlaem, N. Y., since the year 1839, is (or was) particularly noticeable for the extreme spareness of his person — his lower limbs much resembling those of John Randolph; and, also, for the whiteness of his whiskers, in violent contrast to the blackness of his hair — the latter, in consequence ...
Quick answer: Kaiser Wilhelm II was the leader of Germany in the beginning of World War I, and he sought to increase Germany's power on the world stage in order to rival Britain. During...
His dismissal of Chancellor Bismarck in 1890 and ambitious aim to make Germany a world power served to disrupt the established balance of the European order. He was Queen Victoria’s first grandson, but his ambivalent, love-hate attitude to Britain strained relations between the two countries.
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