Valdemar III, Duke of Schleswig

Waldemar III. (* 1238, † 1257 ) was Duke of Schleswig ( 1252-1257 ).

Life

Waldemar was the eldest son of King Abel of Denmark and his wife Matilda of Holstein.

In an early age he was sent to Paris to study. When the father 1250 King of Denmark was, he called him back to Copenhagen in order to use him as his successor. On the way home he was jailed by the Archbishop of Cologne, Konrad von Hochstaden. When his father died in 1252, he had not yet been triggered. This was his chance to become king of Denmark, has become obsolete. Instead of him, his father 's brother Christoph was chosen. The Count Holstein, his mother's brothers, then claimed the Duchy for himself and came with troops to Jutland. At the same time they brought the ransom, the enormous sum of 6,000 silver marks. Since King Christopher was beset also by others - there were heavy clashes with the bishops - he was willing to leave the duchy Waldemar Jutland. In 1253 he received the investiture in Kolding. Nevertheless, there came the following year led to a quarrel between him and the king, and he came with an army to the loop before. Further details are not known to. In the summer of 1257 he took part in a peace meeting between the Danes honey Christopher and King Håkon IV of Norway in Copenhagen. In the same year he died.

• Prince (Denmark)
• Duke (Schleswig )
• House Estridsson
• Born in 1238
• Died in 1257
• Man