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92 MARGARET 01 NORWAY.
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-A*«-> • It Was Now The Year 1396, And T...
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with they the city rej groups oiced with of with pomp courtl great and y virg state rejoicing ins ; they too . . Many were Pipers decked noble , bassoon dames as were players also y as , and found they various lib there eral ; ,
. and and games care were were were joyous there forgotten in c all ontinuall respects . Then y . kept the Wh lords up ile . this took The court leave Danish was and being courtiers travelled held were , home all sorrow each
where he desired to be . " , It is curious to know tliat Philippa _' s * bridal portion was sent
over in one solid golden ingot of the value of one hundred thousand rix-dollars .
In the year 1410 , just four years after King Eric _' s marriage , hostilities broke out once more between Margaret and the Counts of
Holstein . Nearly a quarter of a century had elapsed since the Queen strove to conciliate this haughty family by the investiture of
Sleswick ; but they remained turbulent and discontented as ever , and now refused longer to render feudal homage for the fief .
Margaret as usual any tried to negotiate , but without success . The widowed Countess of Holstein then called in the aid of her brother-in-law ,
Count Adolf of Schawenberg . Margaret gave the chief command of her to King Ericand both sides prepared for war .
army , And now , for the first time during this reign , the Danish arms experienced a reverse of fortune , and Eric , who . was as incompetent
in the field as in the council-chamber , suffered a total rout at Tonderen _f in Sleswick . To make matters worse , he added , treachery to
defeat , and perpetrated an outrage that must have severed the last link of any affection less enduring than that of Queen Margaret _!
One Abraham Broderson , a Swedish gentleman who is extolled in the " Rhyme Chronicle " for his " bravery and skill , " and who , in
return for his important services , was supposed to enjoy something more than his sovereign ' s friendship , was entrusted during this
expedition with a command under the King . Though he did not himself value his aunt ' s regard , Eric had long been jealous of this
gentleman , and only awaited an opportunity to avenge his hate . That opportunity was afforded by the present war . Powerless as a
King , he was all-powerful as a General , and , as the first exercise of his military authority , caused Broderson to be arrested and beheaded .
chance * Married that this to one unfortunate so innatel Princess y base could as Eric be of otherwise Pomerania than , there wretched was little She
. was Queen gentle Margaret , pious found , courageous in her a , docile and intelli and affectionate gent . The pup peop il le ; but loved by her her , hus and
absent band she was ilgrimage personally to maltreated the Hol . Land In the she year presided 1423 over , when the the government King was
Hanseatic and defended on a towns p Copenhagen . Having from retired the y to combined the , convent fleets of of Wadstena Holstein , She she and died the ,
great there - in granddaughter the year 1430 to , and the famous her grave Q , ueen is still Phili shown ppa , to wife travellers of Edward . III . was
t Fryxell says Sol & orp .
92 Margaret 01 Norway.
92 MARGARET 01 NORWAY .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 92, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/20/
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