This battle took place on 4 June 1565 between an Allied fleet of 33 Danish and Lübecker ships, under Trolle, and a Swedish fleet of perhaps 49 ships, under
Klas Horn
Baron Klas Kristersson Horn (1517 – September 9, 1566) was a Finnish born, Swedish nobleman and Naval Admiral who fought for Sweden in the Northern Seven Years' War of 1563–1570.
Biography
Horn was born at Åminne Manor in Halikko, Finland ...
. Afterward, the Danes retired to
Køge
Køge (, older spelling ''Kjøge'') is a seaport on the coast of Køge Bugt (''Bay of Køge'') 39 km southwest of Copenhagen. It is the principal town and seat of Køge Municipality, Region Sjælland, Denmark. In 2022, the urban area had a p ...
Bay, south of
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...
, where Trolle died of his wounds on 25 June. His Second,
Jørgen Brahe, died of fever on 28 June.
Ships involved
Denmark-Norway/Lübeck
* ''Jegermesther'' 90 (flag)
* ''Merkurius'' (Second in command Jørgen Brahe)
* ''Svenske Jomfru'' (Erik Rud)
* 30 others
Sweden
* ''St Erik'' 90 (flag)
* ''Finska Svan'' 82
* ''Svenska Hektor'' 87 (Per Bagge)
* ''Herkules'' 81
* ''Engel'' 49
* ''Pelikan''
* ''Troilus'' 44 (Shenk)
* ''Fuchs'' (ex-Lübecker)?
* 41 or so others
References
* Kloth, Herbert: "Lübecks Seekriegswesen in der Zeit des nordischen 7-jährigen Krieges 1563–1570", ''Zeitschrift des Vereines für lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde'', Vol. 21 (1923), pp. 1–51, 185–256 plus Vol. 22 (1923–25), pp. 121–52 & 325–79
1565 in Denmark
1565
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Year 1565 ( MDLXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 3 – In the Tsardom of Russia, Ivan the Terrible originates the opr ...
History of Lübeck
Conflicts in 1565
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