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His plans for regaining the Danish territories lost in 1645 were shattered when Charles suddenly seized the Danish province of Jutland and invaded the Danish island of Zealand. Shortly afterward Frederick signed the Treaty of Roskilde (Feb. 26, 1658), by which Denmark ceded to Sweden the provinces of Skåne , Blekinge , and Halland, the island ...
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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.
Jan 14, 2024 · Frederik becomes king on Sunday, two weeks after the surprise abdication announcement from his mother, Queen Margrethe, who is 83 and has reigned since 1972. Frederik and his wife, Crown Princess...
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Frederick was born at Haderslev in Slesvig, the son of Christian IV and Anne Catherine of Brandenburg. In his youth and early manhood, there was no prospect of his ascending the Danish throne, as his older brother Christian was elected heir apparentin 1608. During his early childhood, he was raised under the supervision of Beate Huitfeldt. Frederic...
Proclaimed king
The death of his elder brother Christian in June 1647 opened the possibility for Frederick to be elected heir apparent to the Danish throne. However, this issue was still unsettled when Christian IV died on 28 February 1648. After long deliberation among the Danish Estates and in Rigsraadet (royal council), he was finally accepted as his father's successor. On 6 July, Frederick received the homage of his subjects, and he was crowned on 23 November. However, due to misgivings about the rule of...
Defeated by Sweden
With all his good qualities, Frederick was not a man to recognize fully his own limitations and that of his country. But he rightly regarded the accession of Charles X of Sweden on 6 June 1654 as a source of danger to Denmark-Norway. He felt that temperament and policy would combine to make Charles an aggressive warrior-king: the only uncertainty was in which direction he would turn his arms first. Charles's invasion of Poland in July 1655 came as a distinct relief to Frederick, even though t...
Assault on Copenhagen repelled
Charles's suspicion of Denmark-Norway led him to a further assault on his neighbor. Terror was the first feeling produced at Copenhagen by the landing of the main Swedish army at Korsør on Zealandon 17 July 1658. None had anticipated the possibility of such a sudden and brutal attack, and everyone knew that the Danish capital was very inadequately fortified and garrisoned. During this war, Frederick attained great popularity in the general public, as he rebuked the advice of his counsellors t...
Frederick married Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg in Castle Glücksburgon 1 October 1643. The marriage had been arranged in 1640. Frederick was, at the time, archbishop of Bremen and not heir to the throne, and was not expected to succeed to the throne. The couple had the following children: Also, he had with Margarethe Pape one illegitimate son...
The Royal Lineage at the website of the Danish MonarchyFrederik III at the website of the Royal Danish CollectionWhen 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.
During the reign of Frederik II Denmark had one of Europe’s very best naval forces, but in spite of Christian IV’s expansion of it, the Danish Navy was weakened in step with the declining political importance of Denmark after the Thirty Years’ War and later defeats.
Jan 14, 2024 · Wearing a magenta outfit, Margrethe signed her abdication during a meeting with the Danish Cabinet at the Christiansborg Palace, a vast complex in Copenhagen that houses the Royal Reception Rooms...
