Just outside Svedala in the province of Skåne is the place where the lost Lindholmen castle was located in the 14th century.
During the latter part of the 14th century, it quickly became an important stronghold and had such importance that it came to change Swedish history.
Between 1332 and 1360 Skåne belonged to the Swedish-Norwegian king Magnus Eriksson. But in 1360, the Danish king Valdemar Atterdag conquered the province and returned it to Denmark.
Various power struggles within Sweden led to Magnus Eriksson and his son Håkan, who had been made king of Norway, changing sides and entering into an alliance with Valdemar. Håkan married King Valdemar's daughter Margaret.
Powerful men in Sweden decided to depose Magnus Eriksson as king and in 1363 there was an invasion of Sweden from German Mecklenburg, which today lies just south of Denmark. Sweden got a new king named Albrecht of Mecklenburg, who was the son of Magnus Eriksson's sister Eufemia.
Albrecht of Mecklenburg realized that he should take back Skåne from Valdemar Atterdag in Denmark and in 1368 he came here to Lindholmen in an attempt to regain the province.
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