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  1. He commanded Danish forces in Schleswig-Holstein during Denmarks disastrous war with Sweden (1643–45) and succeeded to the throne shortly after the death (1648) of his father, Christian IV, agreeing to a charter that reduced the royal prerogatives.

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  2. After his elder brother Rudolf III had been enfeoffed with the crown of Bohemia following the extinction of the Bohemian royal Přemyslid dynasty in 1306, the way was clear for the younger son to take over the rulership of Austria and Styria.

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  4. Frederick III (born Sept. 21, 1415, Innsbruck, Austria—died Aug. 19, 1493, Linz) was the Holy Roman emperor from 1452 and German king from 1440 who laid the foundations for the greatness of the House of Habsburg in European affairs. Frederick, the son of Duke Ernest of Austria, inherited the Habsburg possessions of Inner Austria (Styria ...

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  5. As Frederick I duke of Austria and Styria; as Frederick III Roman-German King from 1314–1330 (as anti-king to Louis IV of Wittelsbach) Frederick ‘the Fair’, son of King Albrecht I, endeavoured to succeed his father as Roman-German King. However, in 1322 he suffered an annihilating defeat at Mühldorf am Inn at the hands of the Wittelsbach ...

  6. Thus the Danish capital had saved the Danish monarchy. But it was Frederick III. who profited most by his spirited defence of the common interests of the country and the dynasty.

  7. Frederick III was unable to raise significant financial resources in Germany to pursue his own policy or to strengthen the emperor's power. On the other hand, he also did not attempt to reform imperial institutions and preserved the emperor's system of relations with princes and imperial cities (against the assertion of royal power in ...

  8. In spite of this the navy supported the Danish claim to levy the Sound Dues for a period of around 400 years, as one of the reasons given was that the Danish navy kept the entire Baltic Sea free of pirates. Although this was to some extent true early in the period, the argument became more and more theoretical.

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