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3 unusual facts about Eric of Pomerania


Eric III

Eric of Pomerania, Eric III of Norway, (1381/1382–1459), king of Norway (1389–1442), elected King of Denmark (1396–1439), and of Sweden (1396–1439)

Ivan Frankopan

With the support of his good friend and former employer, Eric of Pomerania who became King of Sweden, he triumphed over King Sigismund.

Östermalm

During the reign of the all-Scandinavian king Eric of Pomerania in the early 15th century, a royal cow-house was erected on the domains of the village Vädla.


Barnim VIII, Duke of Pomerania

In 1427 he and his relative, the Danish king Eric of Pomerania, led a combined Danish-Swedish Fleet defeating the Hanseatic fleet in a battle in the Øresund.

Henry X Rumpold

Under the service of Emperor Sigismund, Henry X was a mediator in international affairs, and he was sent in a diplomatic mission to Denmark, where after successfully negotiations with the King Eric, was arranged his betrothal with the King's first cousin Adelaide (b. 1410 - d. aft. 1445), daughter of Duke Bogislaw VIII of Pomerania-Stargard; but he died soon after in a military camp in Flubsberg.

Johann Philipp Murray

For example, he wrote about runes, the history of the Nordic countries in earlier times, Nordic settlements in the British Isles and Philippa of England, the queen of Eric of Pomerania.


see also

Sophie of Pomerania, Duchess of Pomerania

At the death of Eric of Pomerania in 1459, Sophia's husband united Pomerania through the inheritance of Pomerania-Stolp and Pomerania-Rügenwalde by his marriage, while Sophia became the sole possessor of the vast fortune brought by Eric of Pomerania from his former kingdoms's in Scandinavia, as well as the one he had acquired by his piracy activity on Gotland.