Furthermore he claims that Bishop Theoderich, already co-initiator of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in Livonia, had the idea of starting a similar order in Estonia ; and that he was the original instigator of the inquiry from Bishop Albert of Buxhoeveden to King Valdemar II in 1218, that set the whole Danish participation in the Baltic crusades in motion.

* Scandinavia: Odin ; King Vold ( Denmark ); Valdemar Atterdag ( Denmark ); the witch Guro Rysserova and Sigurdsveinen ( Norway ).

Adolf Frederick was also a 13th-generation descendant of Erik V of Denmark ; a 13th-generation descendant of Sophia of Denmark and Valdemar I of Sweden ; and an 11th-generation descendant of Euphemia of Sweden, Duchess of Mecklenburg and her husband the duke Albrecht.

George and his family, 1862: ( back row left to right ) Frederick VIII of Denmark | Frederick, Christian IX of Denmark | Christian IX, George ; ( front row left to right ) Maria Feodorovna ( Dagmar of Denmark ) | Dagmar, Prince Valdemar of Denmark | Valdemar, Louise of Hesse-Kassel | Queen Louise, Princess Thyra of Denmark | Thyra, Alexandra of Denmark | Alexandra

On the death of King Valdemar's descendant Eric VI of Denmark in 1319, Christopher II of Denmark attempted to seize the Duchy of Schleswig, the heir of which Duke Valdemar V ( as of 1325 ) was a minor ; but Valdemar's guardian and uncle, Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg ( 1304 – 1340 ), surnamed the Great and a notable warrior, drove back the Danes and, Christopher having been expelled, succeeded in procuring the election of Duke Valdemar to the Danish throne ( as Valdemar III as of 1326 ), while Gerhard himself obtained the Duchy of Schleswig.

* Duke of Estonia and Laland ( Denmark ; during, at least, reigns of Christopher II and Valdemar IV )

Valdemar, English also Waldemar ; ( 1239 – 1302 ), was King of Sweden 1250 – 1275.

Richeza's daughter Sofia of Minsk, Queen of Denmark by her first marriage with Valdemar I, give Richeza her only known legitimate grandchildren: the later kings Knud VI and Valdemar II of Denmark ; Sophie ( Countess of Orlamünde ); Margareta and Maria, nuns at Roskilde ; Ingeborg ( the later repudiated Queen of France ); Helena ( Duchess of Brunswick-Luneburg ) and Richeza, named after her grandmother and who, like her, became Queen of Sweden.

# 1285 Rikissa, daughter of King Valdemar of Sweden ; one daughter: Ryksa Elizabeth ( 1286 – 1335 ), married King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia in 1300, secondly King Rudolph I of Bohemia in 1306

Frederick Valdemar Erastus Peterson ( July 18, 1903 – October 17, 1983 ), also known as Val Peterson, was an American politician who served as the 26th Governor of Nebraska from 1947 to 1953 ; as director of the Federal Civil Defense Administration from 1953 – 1957 ; as U. S. ambassador to Denmark 1957 – 1961 ; and as U. S. ambassador Finland, 1969 – 1973.

First US patent for a magnetic recorder ; Valdemar Poulsen, inventor.

* Mercedes Lackey, author of " The Heralds of Valdemar " series, incorporates psionics into her novels under the guise of " mind magic "; Heraldic Gifts run the gamut of abilities ranging from mindspeech ( telepathy ), which can be either receptive or projective or both ; fetching ( telekinesis and teleportation ); fore-sight ( prescience or precognition ); firestarting ( pyrokinesis ); far-sight ( ESP / astral projection ).

* since Magnus III of Sweden until accession of Charles XVI Gustav, Sweden's monarchs were officially titled King of the Goths ; and quite parallelly, since Valdemar IV's conquest of Gotland until accession of Margarethe II of Denmark, Denmark's monarchs were similarly titled.

Beginning in the late 1150s, King Valdemar the Great of Denmark enlisted the aid of Duke Henry the Lion of Saxony against the Slavs ; their cooperation led to the death of the Obotrite prince, Niklot, in 1160.

After Valdemar refused to share Rugia with Henry, the Saxon duke enlisted the aid of the Obotrite confederacy and the Liutizi against the Danes ; Valdemar ended the conflict by paying Henry in 1171.

He grew up at the castle of his father, and was brought up alongside his older brother Esbern Snare and the young prince Valdemar, who later became King Valdemar I of Denmark.

In 1202, Valdemar II became king and launched various " crusades " to claim territories, notably modern Estonia.

In 1168, the Danish king, Valdemar I, and his army commander and advisor, Bishop Absalon of Roskilde destroyed the Svetovid temple in the hillfort at Cape Arkona, ending both the territorial and religious autonomy of the Rani, their former monarchs became Danish princes of Rügen.

In 1168, the Danish king Valdemar I conquered Rügen which then became Christian.

George's siblings were Frederick ( who succeeded their father as King of Denmark ), Alexandra ( who became queen consort of Edward VII of the United Kingdom and the mother of King George V ), Dagmar ( who, as Empress Maria Feodorovna, was consort of Alexander III of Russia and the mother of Tsar Nicholas II ), Thyra ( who married Prince Ernest Augustus, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale ) and Valdemar.

After this decision, both Knud V and Valdemar Knudsson ( son of Knud Lavard, the enemy of his own father Magnus ) rebelled against Sweyn III, who was expelled in 1154: Knud V and Valdemar became co-kings of Denmark.

The Rugian princes became vassals of Valdemar I of Denmark.

Eric II of Pomerania-Stolp, grand-grandchild of Danish king Valdemar IV in contrast became king of the Kalmar Union in 1397.

Valdemar accordingly gave up his patrimony, Schleswig, and entfeoffed it to his uncle and guardian, whereby the first Holsteinian became a Duke: Gerhard, Duke of Jutland ( or Southern Jutland or Schleswig ).

Valdemar became again Duke of Schleswig.

Danish merchant Valdemar Hanschell established a liquor store in the 19th century which became the birthplace of Cockspur Rum.

Nielsen's record would stand for eight years, until the 18 years and 51 days old Valdemar Laursen became the youngest Danish national team debutant.

After the Mage Storms and the breaking of geas, however, Vales began to proliferate, as many Tayledras Vales became permanent settlements in all, and nearly a dozen and a half Vales exist according to the Valdemar Companion, which would seem to indicate that when the Vales can afford to establish a new Vale, they gather together those who would settle such and work there, and launch the expedition to the newly chosen point for the Vale to exist.

His younger brother Valdemar Magnusson, the duke of Finland, became his close ally and helped him in all his projects.

At the coronation of his older brother King Birger of Sweden, Valdemar became the duke of Finland.

Absalon probably did not take part in the following battle of Grathe Heath in 1157, in which Sweyn was defeated and slain and led to Valdemar ascending the Danish throne.

In 1206, a Danish army led by king Valdemar II and Andreas, the Bishop of Lund landed on Saaremaa and attempted to establish a stronghold without success.

In 1168 during the Northern Crusades, Denmark mounted a crusade led by Bishop Absalon and King Valdemar the Great against the Wends of Rugia in order to convert them to Christianity.

Valdemar I had also just won a civil war and later Valdemar II led an expedition across the Elbe to invade Holstein.

On the death of King Valdemar II in 1241, a dispute arose over the succession, which led to the island being raided by Lubeckers who took the part of one of the claimants, Knud Duke of Blekinge who was imprisoned by his brother Erik Plovpenning ( king 1241-1250 ) in Stegeborg.

His succession led to a period of civil war between Sweyn III, Canute V, and Valdemar I.

In 1206, King Valdemar II and archbishop Andreas Sunonis led a raid on Ösel island ( Saaremaa ).

In 1219, Valdemar gathered his fleet, joined forces with the Rugian navy led by prince Wizlav of Rügen and landed at Northern Coast of Estonia in the Lyndanisse ( now Tallinn ) harbor in an Estonian province of Revala.

Absalon was a close counsellor of Valdemar, and chief promotor of the Danish crusades against the Wends.

Although the Curonians had attacked Riga in 1201 and 1210, Albert of Buxhoeveden, considering Courland a tributary of Valdemar II of Denmark, had been reluctant to conduct a large scale campaign against them.

The castle was built in 1175 by King Valdemar I ( Valdemar the Great ) as a defensive castle and as a base from which to launch raids against the German coast.

Either in late 1361 or early 1362 the inhabitants of Visby raised themselves against the few Danish that Valdemar left behind and killed them.

Valdemar was unable to enforce the fragile peace with the Hanseatic cities, and in 1367 the League founded the Confederation of Cologne against Denmark and Norway to counter the growing ambitions of the two allied kings.

Also, the Confederation launched a successful campaign against Valdemar in Denmark, which turned out to be disastrous for Valdemar's plans to reassemble the Danish kingdom.

In addition to this, the Confederation forced Valdemar to grant the Hanseatic League a considerable amount of influence over the future Danish king-elections, including the right to veto against any throne candidate.

The third, and arguably the most important record, comes from the Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus, who in his Gesta Danorum described the war fought in 1168 by the Danish king Valdemar I against the Wends of Rügen, the conquest of their city at cape Arkona and the destruction of the grand temple of Svantevit that stood there.

As part of the crusade, in the summer of 1219 the King of Denmark Valdemar II launched an attack against Tallinn.

The first in 1362 and the second in 1369 both pitted Danish king Valdemar IV against the Hanseatic fleet.

Yet, in the meantime Christopher's throne had been challenged by Valdemar III of Denmark, and Christopher had granted Rugia to Mecklenburg for her aid against his opponent.

Valdemar III ( 1314 – 1364 ) was a king of Denmark from 1326 to 1329 briefly when underage, as well as in 1325 – 26 and from 1330 to 1364 Duke of Schleswig as Valdemar V. He was a rival king set up against the unsuccessful Christopher II and was widely opposed by his many subjects.

ISBN 3-520-37105-7 .</ ref > However, when Valdemar IV then captured Prussian merchant ships in the Øresund on their way to England, Grand Master Winrich of Kniprode travelled to Lübeck to propose a war alliance against Denmark, received with reluctance only by the important cities forming the Wendish-Saxon third of the Hanse .< ref name =" Dollinger 1998 98 "> Philippe Dollinger, Die Hanse Hanse ( XII < sup > e </ sup >- XVII < sup > e </ sup > siècles ); German, see references for bibliographical details, p. 98.

Since Valdemar IV had also attacked ships of the Dutch city of Kampen and other destinations in the Zuiderzee, Prussia and Dutch cities, such as Kampen, Elburg, and Harderwijk allied themselves against Denmark.