User:Svarte Kaptenen

In the 1300hundreds there was a Swedish King named Magnus Eriksson he later inherited Norway from his maternal grandfather and later on he bought Skåneland from the Danish creating a wast realm. however later on he made his son Håkan king of Norway. Hsi later regency was bad to say the least war broke out with Denmark, Russia and the Hanseatic leuage he was deposed in a coup captuerd and later released only to lose a battle against his own nephew Albrekt af Mecklenburg later on Albrekt was chosen as king though he was a foreigner and it was forbidden in the law we had a system with elective kings or queens in the middle ages but the country was in reality governed by the high council of nobles most notably Bo Jonsson Grip the main landowner of all times he had all of Finland nealy 2\3 of Sweden. in the year 1386 Bo Grip died and there was a powerstruggle between Albrekt and the remaining nobles about his immense legacy, not wanting the land falling in the hands of Germans they turned to Margarethe queen of Denmark she had earlier been married to king Håkan of Norway Magnus son remember they had a son Olav who became king both of Denmark and Norway because Valdemar and Håkan died in short succession however Olav died early only 17years old which left Margarethe queen of Denmark and Norway when the Swedish sought her up she accepted she also had problems with the Hanseatic leuage, she started the Kalmar union one regent but different governments.