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Count's Feud

Count's Feud (1534–36)
Part of Protestant Reformation
Date 1534–36
Location Denmark
Result Victory for Christian III and the Danish Protestants.
Territorial
changes
Denmark, Sweden and the Holy Roman Empire
Belligerents
National Coat of arms of Denmark no crown.svg Christian II
Wappen Lübeck.svg Christopher of Oldenburg
Free City of Lübeck
Insigne incognitum.svg Skåne
Insigne incognitum.svg Malmø
Lesser coat of arms of Copenhagen.svg Copenhagen
Zealand
National Coat of arms of Denmark no crown.svg Christian III
Coat of arms of Schleswig.svg Duchy of Schleswig
Holstein Arms.svg Holstein
Shield of arms of Sweden.svg Sweden
POL Prusy książęce COA.svg Duchy of Prussia
Jutland
Commanders and leaders
National Coat of arms of Denmark no crown.svg Christian II
Wappen Lübeck.svg Christopher of Oldenburg
National Coat of arms of Denmark no crown.svg Skipper Clement †
National Coat of arms of Denmark no crown.svg Johan Rantzau
Shield of arms of Sweden.svg Gustav I of Sweden

The Count's Feud (Danish: Grevens Fejde), also called the Count's War, was a civil war that raged in Denmark in 1534–36 and brought about the Reformation in Denmark. The Count's Feud takes its name from the Protestant Count Christopher of Oldenburg, who supported the Catholic King Christian II, deposed in 1523, over the election of Christian III.

After Frederick I's death in 1533, the Jutland nobility proclaimed his son, then Duke Christian of Gottorp, as King under the name Christian III. Meanwhile, Count Christoffer organized an uprising against the new king, demanding that Christian II be set free. Supported by Lübeck and troops from Oldenburg and Mecklenburg, parts of the Zealand and Skåne nobilities rose up, together with cities such as Copenhagen and Malmø. The violence itself began in 1534, when a privateer captain who had earlier been in Christian II's service, Klemen Andersen, called Skipper Clement, at Count Christoffer's request instigated the peasants of Vendsyssel and North Jutland to rise up against the nobles. The headquarters for the revolt came to be in Aalborg. A large number of manors were burned down in northern and western Jutland. On 10 August 1534, Count Christoffer accepted Skåne for Christian II's rule. The month before, Christoffer was heralded as regent on Christian II's behalf by the Zealand Council in Ringsted.


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