Regional1361
Battle of Visby
near Visby · Gotland
Estimated casualties
1.8K – 2.0Kestimated dead
An estimated ~1,800 Gotland yeomen and peasants died; ~2,000 bodies were later disinterred from mass graves at Korsbetningen. Danish losses unknown.
SOURCEWikipedia / archaeological excavations
On 27 July 1361, the invading army of King Valdemar IV of Denmark defeated a poorly equipped Gotland peasant militia outside the walls of Visby. The mass graves later excavated at Korsbetningen, with armoured skeletons, make it one of the best-documented medieval battlefields archaeologically.
Belligerents2
- Kingdom of Denmark
- Gotland yeomen militia
Sources
- Wikipedia: Battle of Visby
- Historiska museet: Medieval Massacre (Visby)
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cite as: Battle of Visby (1361). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-visby · Sources & methodology