Battle of Bogesund

The Battle of Bogesund (also battle on the Åsunden ) was held on January 19, 1520 on the eve of the Swedish War of Liberation on the Åsunden about three kilometers south of the present Ulricehamn instead. The Swedish army under the Regent Sten Sture the Younger lost the battle against a Danish army under the leadership of Otte Krumpen. Sten Sture was severely wounded and died on February 3, 1520 from the effects of his injury. The Danish troops marched into the sequence continues to Stockholm, where Christian II was crowned on November 4, 1520 to the King of Sweden and it came to Stockholm Bloodbath in connector.

In 1473 it had come in between Denmark and Sweden, for peace of Kalmar. From 1518 Christian II Sweden tried to subdue again. A first attempt was with the lost battle fails when Brännkyrka. In the winter of 1519-1520 he made a new attempt to reclaim sovereignty over Sweden.

Commander of Danish troops, was Krumpen Otte, a Danish knight. The army consisted of well-trained mercenaries from the German Empire, France and Scotland. The cold season was chosen because in addition to the existing paths, the rivers, lakes and marshes were frozen and so rapid locomotion was made possible.

On the Swedish side of the border region soldiers and peasants were mobilized to defend.

Sture could choose the place carefully where he wanted to hit the attacker. The lake was at this point relatively narrow and raised in East located on the bank of the mountains of Skottek.

Right at the beginning of the battle Sten Sture was a cannon ball, which hit the ice bounced, just above the knee. He was carried from the battlefield and the Swedish troops gave more and more after. Sture's injuries were not adequately maintained, and he died on February 2 during return to Stockholm on a slide on the ice of Lake Mälaren from the effects of his injury. The Danes sailed further north and pillaging on the way Bogesund ( Ulricehamn ) Falköping, Skövde and Skara. In Tivedens it was another battle, which cost the Danes half of their troops.

On 21 February, the battle leading parties decided Straengnaes, lay down their arms for eight days. On March 2, reached the Danes Uppsala and closed with a Swedish embassy, headed by Archbishop Gustav Trolle a truce, in which the Swedish side of King Christian swore loyalty and the Danish side undertook to refrain from retaliation.

Christian II was crowned in Stockholm on November 4, 1520 to the King of Sweden. Immediately after the coronation began, despite the previous amnesty, trials against the supporters of Sten Sture, which led to the execution of more than 80 people. Also, the body of Sten Sture was exhumed and burned on a pyre.