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.The four bishops and eight lay councillors ofJylland met again at Ry July 4.Mogens Gøye and his supporters hadspent the intervening month appealing to the lesser nobility of Jyllandand Fyn, many of whom were standing in the churchyard while thecouncil lords deliberated inside St.Søren s.The discussions were vehement.It was clear that Lübeck meant toimpose a ruler on Denmark, and that she would not consult the coun-cil of the realm in doing so.The council lords had dropped the ball,19Grevens Feide, II, 54 56.20Count Chr to the Norwegian council Oct 16 1534, Grevefeidens Aktst, I, 206 07.21Councillors of Sjælland and Skaane to the Norwegian council Oct 15 1534, GrevefeidensAktst, I, 204 05.22The southern councillors to Archb Engelbrektsson Feb 28 1535, ibid., II, 65 66; GrevensFeide, II, 56.23Count Chr to Mogens Gøye May 17 1534, ibid., I, 70 71. 322 Civil War, 1533 1536but refused to acknowledge that fact proof, if it were still needed,that the leaders of the kingdom were badly out of touch.MogensGøye insisted that they elect Duke Christian king.The Catholicbishops refused, fearing, says Huitfeldt, that the duke would abasetheir state. 24 The long-winded deliberations in St.Søren s tried thepatience of the lesser nobility standing in the churchyard.They pushedinto the church, demanding Duke Christian s election as king.Thebishops had to give way.On July 4, 1534, a year after the decision to postpone the election ofa king, the councillors of Jylland chose Duke Christian as their king,and appointed a delegation, Mogens Gøye, Ove Lunge, Oluf Munk,suffragan at Ribe, and Bishop Styge Krumpen of Børglum, to notifythe duke of Holstein.25 Bishop Styge s presence in the delegation wasproof that Catholic resistance was at an end, one of the conditions forDuke Christian s cooperation.No one had opposed the duke morevehemently than Styge Krumpen.On the neighboring island of Fyn the nobility reacted with panicto the news of Count Christoffer s landing on Sjælland.Fyn was ashort sail from Sjælland, and the island was defenseless.Her forceswere in Holstein, fending off Lübeck s attack.As soon as the decisionof the nobles of Jylland to elect Duke Christian was known, a numberof Fyn s nobles met at Hjallelse Church outside Odense, while com-moners gathered for the market of St.Knud inside the town.Themood of the commoners was volatile.Their clamor forced noblesto act.On July 9 the nobles of Fyn agreed to elect Duke Christianking.26 They sent Johan Friis to join Jylland s delegation.At the sametime they dispatched Anders Emmiksen directly to Holstein to beg foraid, that affairs on Fyn might not go as they had gone on Sjælland.27Before Emmiksen reached Holstein, strife erupted on Fyn.In the year since his father s death, Duke Christian of Holstein hadshown himself as cautious and reserved as his father.No one hadexpected moderation from the thirty-year-old duke; his reputationwas that of a self-willed, rash young aristocrat.At the council meetingin Copenhagen in 1533, the lords had taken precautions against acoup by the young duke.28 Their fears were baseless.Not only didhe not invade Jylland; he seemed genuinely reluctant to succeedhis father.He refused Mogens Gøye s offer to make common cause24Huitfeldt Ch III.25Ibid.; Skibykrøniken, 189, note 1.26Council lords and nobles election of Ch III Jul 9 1534, Grevefeidens Aktst, II, 33 34.27Councillors of Fyn to Duke Christian Jul 9 1534, ibid., I, 105 06.28Grevens Feide, I, 100 01. Reactions 323with Lutheran townsmen.As a noble reared in a German princelytradition, Duke Christian did not aspire to be the king of burghers.If he were to become king, the offer would have to come from thesource of legitimate authority, the council of the realm the entirecouncil of the realm, not just one of its factions.Jürgen Wullenweber s rearrangement of the pieces on the boardforced the duke to reconsider.In May 1534, Lübeck s mercenariesinvaded Holstein.In June Count Christoffer landed on Sjælland.Duke Christian s advisors had argued right along for a common frontwith Denmark against the despised regime in Lübeck.When news ofCount Christoffer s successes in Sjælland and Skaane came in, DukeChristian was persuaded to act [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]