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Died: Feb. 9, 1670, Copenhagen (aged 60) Role In: First Northern War. Frederick III (born March 18, 1609, Haderslev, Den.—died Feb. 9, 1670, Copenhagen) was the king of Denmark and Norway (1648–70) whose reign saw the establishment of an absolute monarchy, maintained in Denmark until 1848.
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Frederick disbanded the elective monarchy in favour of absolute monarchy, which lasted until 1848 in Denmark. He married Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg , with whom he fathered Christian V of Denmark .
However, the attempt was thwarted by the murder of Albrecht I in 1308. This plunged the Habsburgs into a deep crisis: aspirations to the Bohemian crown receded into the distance, and in the Holy Roman Empire the electors chose Henry VII from the House of Luxembourg, a candidate from a hitherto second-rank dynasty.
Memorial inside Christiansborg Palace. Depicted is Frederick III and the event commemorated is the failed Swedish attack on Copenhagen in 1659. Originally the Danish monarchy was elective, but in practice the eldest son of the reigning monarch was elected.
May 24, 2024 · Frederick III (Danish: Frederik; 18 March 1609 – 9 February 1670) was king of Denmark and Norway from 1648 until his death in 1670. He instituted absolute monarchy in Denmark-Norway in 1660, confirmed by law in 1665 as the first in Western historiography.
Towards the end of the fifteenth century the Hungarians occupied large tracts of the Habsburg territories. However, the ageing emperor Frederick III outlived one of his enemies to claim victory yet again. The death of his brother Albrecht VI gave Emperor Frederick III more room to manoeuvre.
When the charterhouse was dissolved in the course of the religious reforms of Joseph II his mortal remains were reburied in St Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. He left behind his widow Elizabeth (Isabel) of Aragón (b. between 1300 and 1302–1330). The marriage had been arranged as part of an.
