Posted on 09/08/2023 10:22:21 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1536, the Danish rebel Skipper Clement was put to death at Viborg.
Clement (English Wikipedia entry | Danish) was a naval officer for the Danish king Christian II.
When said heavy–handed monarch was deposed by his own uncle Frederick, Clement turned privateer … and when said deposing-uncle Frederick died in 1533, Clement entered the ensuing civil war between supporters of the still-imprisoned ex-king Christian II and those who backed Frederick’s own son Christian III. This was also a social and political war over the Reformation.
Clement went to war for his former boss, Christian II, instigating a 1534 North Jutland uprising of the Catholic peasantry that in October of that year trounced the Protestant noble army sent to suppress it at the Battle of Svenstrope Mose (Svenstrop Bog or Moor).....
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