a historian and associate professor at University College Absalon in Denmark. “He’s 55, and maybe the queen wanted to avoid a situation where you would have a very, very old king, as you saw ...

Marco Verch Professional Photographer via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 In the summer of 1495, King Hans of Denmark and Norway anchored his warship off the southern coast of Sweden. While Hans was on ...

The Gribshunden was the personal flagship of King Hans of Denmark and Norway. It sank in the Baltic Sea while anchored off the coast of Ronneby, Sweden, while the monarch was attending a political ...

The wreck of the Gribshund, owned by King Hans of Denmark and Norway, has lain off the coast off Ronneby since 1495 when it is thought to have caught fire and sank as the monarch attended a ...

The auction will commence on Saturday with the sale of the first 286 coins, starting with a coin minted in 1496 for Denmark's King Hans. The coin has an estimated price of up to 600,000 euros ...