Editing Stockholm Bloodbath (section)

==Massacre==
[[Image:Stockholm Bloodbath.jpg|thumb|300px|Stockholm Bloodbath]]
On 4 November, Christian was [[anointing|anointed]] by [[Gustavus Trolle]] in [[Storkyrkan|Storkyrkan Cathedral]] and took the usual [[oath]] to rule the kingdom through native-born Swedes only.<ref name=EB1911/> A [[banquet]] was held for the next three days. Lots of wine and beer was drunk and jokes were cracked between Danes and Swedes.<ref>Henrikson, Alf & Hasse Erikson (1979) ''Storkyrkan: en svensk krönika'' (Stockholm: Bonnier); {{ISBN|91-0-042947-3}}</ref>

On the evening of 7 November, Christian summoned many Swedish leaders to a private conference at the palace. At dusk on 8 November, Danish soldiers, with lanterns and torches, entered a great hall of the royal palace and imprisoned several noble guests. Later in the evening, even more of the king's guests were imprisoned. All these people had previously been marked down on Archbishop Trolle's [[proscription]] list.<ref name=EB1911/>

The following day, 9 November, a council, headed by Archbishop Trolle, sentenced the proscribed to [[death penalty|death]] for being [[Christian heresy|heretics]]; the main point of accusation was their having united in a pact to depose Trolle a few years earlier. However, many of them were also leading men of the Sture party and thus potential opponents of the Danish kings. At noon, the anti-unionist [[bishop]]s of [[Skara]] and [[Strängnäs]] were led out into the [[Stortorget (Stockholm)|great square]] and [[decapitation|beheaded]]. Fourteen noblemen, three [[burgomaster]]s, fourteen town [[councillor]]s and about twenty common citizens of Stockholm were then [[Hanging|hanged]] or beheaded.<ref name=EB1911/>

The executions continued throughout the following day (10 November).<ref name=EB1911/> According to the chief executioner, Jörgen Homuth, 82 people were executed.<ref>Lars Ericson Wolke. ''Stockholms Blodbad'', Stockholm 2006,{{ISBN|9151843803}} p. 141</ref> It has been claimed that Christian also took revenge on Sten Sture's body, having it dug up and burnt, as well as the body of his child.<ref name=EB1911/> Sture's widow [[Christina Gyllenstierna|Lady Kristina]] and many other noblewomen were taken as prisoners to Denmark.<ref name="Britannica">[[Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition]], 1911, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31447/31447-h/31447-h.htm#ar65 ''Christian II'' profile], gutenberg.org; accessed 12 May 2015.</ref>