Olaf II of Denmark
Olav II Håkonsson, dän. Oluf II (* December 1370; † August 23, 1387 ) was from 1376 to 1387 King of Denmark and since 1380 when Olav IV also King of Norway. In Mitrechnung all legally elected Danish kings, including Oluf Haraldsen II ( king of Skåne and Blekinge 1140-43 ), he is as Oluf III. referred to.
Life
Olav - son of Haakon VI. and Margaret I of Denmark, who ruled his life for him - could only act from 1385 to 1387 as a full -year king reasonably autonomous. Under him began in 1380, the Union between Norway and Denmark, which lasted until 1814.
On December 1, 1374 his paternal grandfather, King Magnus had died. On October 24, 1375, his grandfather died maternal King Waldemar of Denmark Atterday. It was expected that Duke Albrecht IV of Mecklenburg, the son of King Valdemar's elder daughter Ingeborg, would claim the Danish throne.
Waldemar Atterday had been able to get back into his possession in the Peace of Stralsund Jutland. In 1375 died shortly before Waldemar with Henry of Schleswig, the last descendant of King Abel Duke of Schleswig. Waldemar it was no longer able to bring other parts of the Duchy of Schleswig under his pledge rule. In addition, there was now the condition was Waldemar received the Peace of Stralsund with the Hanseatic League, that a Danish king should be chosen only with the prior consent of the Hanseatic League, and the condition of the separate peace with the Duke Albrecht II of Mecklenburg, that its grandson of Albrecht should be IV of Mecklenburg to Waldemar king of Denmark. Duke Albrecht II tried to move the Hanseatic League with the promise of further privileges for approval. He also sought support in the Holstein counts.
Margaret, however, initially secured the full support of the central follower Valdemar Henning Podebusk. He was the Hanseatic Vogt about the parameters passed to the Hanseatic fortresses on Scania. His brother Waldemar was in October 1376 Bishop in Odense and Copenhagen received, the possession of his predecessor, back. Then she enfeoffed " their ministers ," the canons in Roskilde Peder Jensen Lodehat, who belonged to an old Zeeland gender, with lands in Udby on Zealand. Olav also enfeoffed the canon of Roskilde Nicholas Rusare. These and other fiefs should secure the election of a King Olav. Gradually, several members of the Danish aristocracy of that party joined, though not all. However, since the Pomerania Mecklenburg throne claims were not in favor, Oluf III was. after signing a Hands-on, in which he had to guarantee an annual meeting of States ( Danehof ), elected by the Imperial Parliament to the King of Denmark.
1380 his father died and Olav became king of Norway, recognized again with his mother as regent, as hereditary King of Norway. In his name, his mother negotiated with the Swedish Imperial Council on the taking over of the throne of the infamous in Sweden Albrecht of Mecklenburg. From 1385 he was elected there to the anti-king.
After his early death at the age of seventeen, his mother took over as regent all three countries, and led them in 1387 to the Kalmar Union together. With Olav ended the male line of the folk Unger, who had asked the kings of Sweden and Norway for almost two centuries.