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A08332	The description of Swedland, Gotland, and Finland the auncient estate of theyr kynges, the moste horrible and incredible tiranny of the second Christiern, kyng of Denmarke, agaynst the Swecians, the poleticke attaynyng to the crowne of Gostaue, wyth hys prudent prouidyng for the same. Collected and gathered out of sundry laten aucthors, but chieflye out of Sebastian Mounster. By George North. Set forth accordyng to the order in the Quenes Maiesties iniunction.; Cosmographia. English. Selections	Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552.; North, George, gentleman.	1581 (1581)	STC 18662; ESTC S113287	33,016	56

Birgerius He left the kyngdome to Waldimare who takyng his viage into the holy land did leaue the protection of his realme to his brother Magnus which with vnnatural rebelliō did vsurpe the same would neuer surrender it againe The vncertayne s●aie of a prin●● Birgerius succeded Magnus and tragecally enioyed the crowne For when he thought him selfe most assured and in the type of al hys glory he was depriued by Eric his brother cast into the wretched bandes of imprisonment From whence at length being by good fortune deliuered he ioyned his sonne Magnus quopartner with him in his raigne Birgerius now at libertie knitting amalicious reuenge with his auctoritie did cal to remēbraūce the spiteful wrongs he had suffred at the handes of his brethren His vnquenchable colour kynled so fast for repaying the like euyll that he would by no meanes be pacified til that with their bloud he was satisfied A vnnaturall murder among brethren When hys brethren least feared hym and when they thought the stinking mist of al malice to be voide then did he with a tained coulour of frendshyp request them to a banquet where in the myddest of their mirth they were cruelly slaine This horrible detestable fact dyd so creepe into the eares of the Commons that it moued euery mā to the iust reuengement of so murdrish a dede Then he with his Quene fled left his sonne Magnus behinde him whose heade recōpensed the offence of his father After whō they aduaunced Magnus the son of Eric which was behedded at his brothers banquet to the imperial crowne His raigne was so prosperous that with the help of vertue and the fauour of good fortune The kyngdom of Norway knyt to the crown● of ●we●ia he ioyned the country of Norway to his kingdom of Swecia was crowned king of both countries He yelded Nature her due the yeare of Christ 1326. and left a sonne called Magnus heire to bothe the kyngdomes Magnus did promis the mariage of his sonne Aquine to the natural sister of the Earle of Holst on this condition that if Aquine receiued her not a Maide al the noble men and rulers of Swecia shoulde be free of theyr othe and alegeaunce to the King This Maide saylinge into Swecia was taken vpon the sea of Waldimar King of Denmarke Margaret Waldimars doughter was maried to Aquine Which thyng the Gouernours of Swecia perceiuyng denyed their duty homage to their Prince because he kept not promise with them forthwith they were sent of the Earle of Holst to Albert Duke of Magnopolis father in law to the sayd Earle who had maried Eufemia the kings sister whose sonne named Albert they would haue to their king and so depriued Magnus from al his royall dignitie But he seing him selfe deposed forsaken dyd ioyne with Aquine to make cruel war against Albert whose force nought auailed for Alberts power was more able to resist them then theirs was to ouerthrow him Magnus of ●d●iuexyle Wherfore Magnus was compelled in the ende to be contented with his banishment wherein he dyed Albert being now established and with princely auctority confirmed in his kingdome did apoint hymselfe with al honourable furniture syt for a King leauing the charge of the regall gouernement in the handes of Dismarie did sayle to his Countrey Magnopolus The valyāt and haught mynde of a woman In the meane season whilst these thinges were a doing Margaret the doughter of Waldimar king of Denmarke Norway after the death of her husbande protected the two kingdomes with her litle sonne Olaue And hauing a desire to the regiment of Swecia she began to quarel with Albert king of the same They both leuied two mighty armies committing the successe of their good or euyl fortune to the bloudy lot of war Albert who hadde finished the course of hys prosperous raygne was wyth his yonge sonne Eric of Margaret taken prisoners with whom they were kept in miserable captiuitye the lyngring tyme of seuen yeares Margar●● Queene of the three kyngdomes By which ouerthrowe of Albert the thre kyngdomes were once more subiectes to one crowne and haue alwayes remained so euer since The Norwaise neuer chaūging nor disagreing but the Swecians refusing to beare the troublesome yoke of a straunger haue often tymes shaken of the societie of the Danes Now Albert vpon this condicion was deliuered oute of myson that he should within three yeares folowyng pay three score thousand marke or els deliuer the town and Castel of Stockholme otherwyse to be imprisoned againe Albert would haue surrendred the City but the Swecians would not by any meanes agree to it he being therfore in dispaire and voyde of all hope of recouering hys kyngdome dyd geue vp al and contented hym selfe wyth his old Magnopolus The mightye Margaret triumphantlye raygnynge Quene of the three kingdomes passed her youthe wyth great pompe among the Swecians tyll suche tyme as crooked age with creping pace ouertoke her whose stalking steps none can ouer runne and then by the cōmon counsel and consent of her rulers and gouernours she adopted Eric Captaine of Pomeranie to her sonne The Capytaine of Pomeranye is made kyng ●ome say the this Phillipp● was the kyngs dang●ter of England After whose death he was made Kyng of the three kyngdomes quietly passed his tyme a great while amonge the Swecians For Philippa the Quene his wife and daughter to the kyng of Portugal dyd most commonly lye in Swecia where in the end she dyed Now the kyng hauing continual warres wantyng money dyd contrary to his othe spoile the Swecians and sought al the meanes he myght to impouerishe the country because it semed welthiar much more rytcher then the rest Which made the Nobilitie to declare their impacience with open enuy for the Swecians as they are slow to conceiue a wrong so are they quicke in the reuenge of iniurie but when this was reported and perfectly related to the Earles of Eric he which for his euil estemed nothing litle regarded it The smal regard of princes is 〈◊〉 tymes cause of their more ●●struction Tyll suche tyme as Engelbert a noble man both by birth condicion dyd rayse rebellion against him And where as he had tortified the Castels and fortes of Swecia with captaines officers of the Danes Thys Engelbert remoued thē and did constitute apoint Swecians in their places Then Eric at the first wyth great expedicion sought to feare Engelbert wyth cruell threatnynges whyche nought auailed for his magnanimity was able to counterpaise the others enuy Wherefore he raysed a mighty army thinkyng thereby to pacefy the Swecians furye He saylinge with hys parnicious companye towardes Swecia was preuented of his purpose by a terrible tempest wherin most of them were drowned And Eric him selfe compeld to land with a few where he sawe by experience that fauour and not force wold vanquish the Swecians Althinges chauncing contrary

Christiern kyng of Dēmarke doth enterprise to inuade Swedia This Christiern ful fraighted with ambicion as it should seme naturally enclined to mischiefe began immediatly after hys fathers death wyth haught mynde to make ciuil warres and first he enterprised to inuade Swecia But when he perceiued them to be of suche great myght that as long as there was no domesticall discencion nor vnnaturall hatred betwene them they could wel defend their country nerehand also subdue their enemy abroade He practised to get that by polecy whych he could not get by force and therfore he went about to kyndle contencion and to sowe sedicion amonge the Swedian confederates Fyrst he procured to this treason Gostaue the Metrapolitan Byshop of Vpsalien Who by the instigacion of Christiern did not onely condiscend agree therunto hym selfe but also alured a great nomber more to ioyne wyth hym Gostaue the Byshop of Vpsalien go●th about to betray● his country whych were fully determined and certainly apoynted the yere of Christ .1517 to betray and delyuer theyr country to kyng Christiern But as soone as thys treason was related perfectly knowen to the seconde Steno generall Gouernour of Swecia he presentlye perswaded and exhorted the Byshoppe to leaue of hys euyl begun enterprise friendly chargeing hym to remēber the end before the beginning and not to take that in hand Friendlye admoniciō which should be the destruction of his natiue and natural country also purchase to hym selfe an euerlasting infamy But the bishop cōtemning this fauorable admonicion dyd with a stedfast mynde continue in hys trayterous entent now seing hys diuelish doinges to be bewrayed The byshop besieged in the castel of Stech he fled for refuge to the Castell of Stech where in he was by Stenoes soldiours besieged Christiern kyng of Denmarke hearyng of the daunger that Gostaue was in lyke a faythful confederat did leuy an army for his deliuery trusting by hys power to set the bishop at liberty also by his might to vanquish the country Christiern ouercōmed and dryuen out of Swe●●● But he beyng driuen backe ouerthrowen by the Swecians was compelled to forsake the rescue of Gostaue and to returne with the losse of a great nomber of hys men into Denmarke The Byshop vnderstādyng of the vnfortunate successe of hys companion beyng voyde of al hope vtterly in dispay●e of al ayd dyd fayne a repentaunce Gostaue fai●●th a repē●aun●● and ●oth yelde was contented symplye to yelde hym selfe onely the siege to be raised It was agred vpon the Byshop thus deliuered because he would seme to be perfect sory for hys offence he left hys ecclesiastical dignity priuately lyued of hys own patrimony Now Christiern seing the head chiefe instrument of hys confederacye to be vnarmed whereby the rest that wer of no such auctority as the Bishop might the easslyer be dismēbred he began to execute his malicious enterprise with open force Christiern the seconde tyme bothe inuade swecia Stockholm desieged gathering together a huge myghty army dyd leade them into Swecia fullye bent wyth his monstrous power to ouer ru● the country to subdue the people with cruel seruitude He incamped round about Stockholme makyng hys fyrste attempt wyth theyr chiefe principal Citye But the Swecian soldiours laced hym his army in so straight that they could get neyther victuel for thē selues The extrem hunger of the Danes nor forage for theyr horse whych caused hys hoste to peryshe wyth extreme hunger In thys miserable estate they remayned almost two monethes plaged wyth al euyls discommodities that myght be and returne into Denmarke they coulde not the wyndes were so aduers agaynst them Christiern practiseth his deliuery by craft Fleyng therfore to hys old priuy mischiefes he practised the deliuery of hym his by craft from those extremities wherein they were wrapped For beyng thus wyth the sharpe gredy plague of famin ouecōmed he desired truse an end of the wars Steno Gouernour of Swecia wyth glad mynde condiscended agreed to the peace A treaty o● peace The noble dede of Steno He also considering the horryble penury of his aduersaries did vpon a valiant pityful mynde send in to the campe of the Danes a nomber of Biefes wyth other victuel wherby the paynful hunger of hys enemies was relieued Christiern faining a great fauour to Steno fraudulently semyng to be muche beholdyng vnto hym for thys good turne of hys dyd send into the City requestyng hym friendly to come into hys tent speake with him Steno was voyde of disc●yght The which Steno who ment all truth had done if the Senate of Stockholm had not stayed him For he was so noble of mynde that he thoughte no disceite could lurke in a Princes brest But the Auncientes of the City consideryng their wealth decay to remain in hys parson would not suffer him vpon so slender an entreaty to depart out of the towne The Dane therfore perceiuyng this euyl to be spyed or at the least frustrate The Dane deniseth yet another mis●hiefe dyd yet denise a nother mischief declaring how he would come into the City among thē if he might haue pledges for his safe returne Steno being therto throughlye perswaded dyd appoynt certaine yong noble Gentlemen to be his warrauntes Among whom was the most valiant Gostaue Erichson Father to the noble Eric Gostaue Erichson father to Eric nowe kyng of Swedia to sent for a pledge to Christiern who caryed hym prysouer into Dēmarke now Kyng of Swecia He wyth the rest cōmitting them selues to the fidelity of the Danes entred into theyr Campe from whence they were caried to their shyps and there contrary to the expectacion of Steno were bound in Irons The king thus falselying his fayth dyd not according to his princely promise come into the city but waying his anckers hoysing vp hys sayles made speede with hys pray into Denmarke The Swecians not without iust cause did greatly enuy the infidelitie of the Danes Christiern returnes into Dēmark and also deplored lamented for the losse of these noble mē Who were by the fraudulent dealynges of Christern cleane against the lawe of armes forceablye made not pledges as appointmēt was but prisoners as the Dane would After this flight Christiern the space of .iiii. yere was quiet strengthning his power with men enrytching his cofers with money remaining still in this destable purpose diuelish entent at tyme conuenient to scourge Swecia with some greater plage Vnto which furious madnes Nature had borne hym will had framed him Fortune had apointed him Leuying therefore a great army did once more inuade Swecia Christiern doth the third time inuade Swecia Leuying therefore a great army did once more inuade Swecia Steno remembring the Irregal part of Christiern with an ireful minde of reuenge did wyth great expediciō make haste to