What the records say
- When
- 1463
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 60
- Coordinates
- 59.33° N, 18.07° E
- Description
- massacre of peasants from Uppland in 1463
Massacre at Helgeandsholmen
Massacre of peasants from Uppland in 1463
The Massacre at Helgeandsholmen, also called the Battle of Helgeandsholmen was a massacre by Danish troops under Ture Turesson Bielke against peasants from Uppland who had marched to Stockholm to protest the new tax and the imprisonment of Archbishop Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna. The massacre has been noted to be one of the lesser known massacres in Swedish history by Dick Harrison.
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