Malmo Castle

Malmo Castle is a fort positioned in Malmö, Scania, in southern Sweden. The first citadel was founded in 1434 by way of King Eric of Pomerania. This structure changed into partly demolished in early sixteenth century and a new one was built in its place within the 1530s with the aid of King Christian III of Denmark.

Historically, this fort turned into one of the maximum critical strongholds of Denmark. The castle was for five years 1568 to 1573 the jail of James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. The earl became taken into custody at the orders of the Protestant Danish king Frederick II of Denmark whilst his deliver ran aground in Bergen, Norway at some point of a hurricane. He become sent to Malmö Castle to be imprisoned, although he had formerly been released from Tower of London for loss of evidence in the homicide of Mary's 2d husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. As a bachelor, Frederick II courted Elizabeth I of England and was made a Knight of the Garter.