What the records say
- When
- 30 Jun 1537 – 3 Jul 1537
- Kind
- Siege
- Coordinates
- 60.79° N, 11.04° E
- Description
- 1537 battle Between Norway And Denmark
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Siege of Hamar
Battle Between Norway And Denmark
The siege of Hamar was a short siege that lasted for three days in late June 1537, between the forces of Catholic bishop Mogens Lauritssøn and noble Truid Ulfstand. Truid Ulfstand and his forces came down from Trondheim to arrest the bishop as a part of the Reformation in Denmark–Norway and Holstein.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Siege of Hamar ends with the arrest of Bishop Mogens Lauritssøn, and the Catholic rebellion is definitively ended in Norway”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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