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The Younger Sture and Christian II 95
bishop for conciliation. But the latter turned away
with contempt and secretly entered into negotiations
with Christian. Sten Sture at last sought support from
a Riksdag and revealed to the Estates the treason of
the archbishop. Filled with indignation the Riksdag
decreed that the archbishop should be deposed, and his
strong castle, "Staket," on the Malar, from which he
had defied the regent, should be leveled with the
ground. The decree was immediately carried out.
Christian’s First Attack on Sweden. To make mat-
ters worse, Christian intervened. In the summer of
1518, he appeared before Stockholm with a large army.
But the regent with his peasant army defeated the
mercenaries of the king in a short battle at Brann-
kyrka, south of the city. As he could accomplish noth-
ing, Christian now boarded his fleet and offered to
negotiate peace with the regent, inviting him to come
on board his fleet. Sten Sture, who never thought of
treachery himself, suspected no ill intention. But his
friends warned him that he would never come back
alive from a meeting with Christian. He heeded the
warning, to the deep resentment of Christian, who now
offered to come himself to Stockholm to negotiate on
condition that six Swedish nobles be sent to his fleet
as hostages for his safety. The Swedes accepted Chris-
tian’s demands as the giving of hostages was a common
practice in similar cases. But when the six nobles came
on board the Danish fleet, Christian imprisoned them
and sailed back to Denmark. He was fully determined
to return with a powerful army. Sweden must and
should be subdued.
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