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4 unusual facts about Treaty of Ribe


Treaty of Ribe

The battle was a decisive victory for Count Adolf IV of Holstein, in part owed to a number of troops from Dithmarschen who abandoned the Danish army during the battle.

The field chosen for this action, was in the neighborhood of the town of Bornhöved in Holstein.

Their united forces formed a very respectable array, and they took and destroyed a number of towns, and had recovered a great part of the County of Holstein, when they were opposed by Schauenburg Count Adolf IV of Holstein, who had been joined by his liege lord Albert I, Duke of Saxony and Prince-Archbishop Gerhard II of Bremen.

His master, Emperor Sigismund, now wished to settle the issue, a decision strongly opposed by the Schauenburgers.



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