Valdemar II of Denmark

Valdemar II, known as Valdemar the Victorious, was king of Denmark from 1202 to 1241 and one of the most powerful medieval Danish monarchs. Building on the expansion of his predecessors, he extended Danish influence along the southern Baltic and into Estonia, combining crusading warfare, dynastic politics and royal administration during a period of high Danish power.

His campaigns brought Denmark into Estonia and into direct competition and cooperation with the German crusader powers operating from Livonia. Valdemar II was king of Denmark from 1202 to 1241 and expanded Danish influence around the Baltic during the era of the northern crusades.

In Peter Darman’s Army of the Wolf, Faced with a lack of holy warriors to complete his task, the bishop is forced to beg the ambitious King Valdemar of Denmark for military aid, a request that will have disastrous consequences. In Peter Darman’s Castellan, In the early 1220s Denmark was a major Baltic power and King Valdemar II claimed extensive authority in Estonia.