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Sophie Amalie is credited with a great cultural impact in Denmark, breaking with the old Lutheran religious atmosphere and introducing a new court life influenced by a more general secular European art and pleasure culture, which as a role model also came to effect culture in the rest of Danish society.
In the first part of Frederik III’s reign and later during the reign of her son Christian V from 1670, Sophie Amalie had some influence on political decisions. In the early 1650’s, she was active in the power struggle with Corfitz Ulfeldt and Leonora Christina, who had become a humiliating threat to the position of the Royal Couple.
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May 28, 2021 · Sophie Amalie as Queen of Denmark and Norway; Credit – Wikipedia. As Queen of Denmark, Sophie Amalie became the center of court life. She replaced the old medieval court entertainments with opera and ballet. She enjoyed fashion, parties, theatre, and masquerades, and made the French taste fashionable in Denmark.
It succeeded in 1660 when Frederik III was proclaimed the first Danish king with absolute monarchy. Sophie Amalie and Frederik III had 8 children. Sophie Amalie was very interested in art and culture and brought home loads of French culture to the Danish court.
Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Calenberg was Queen of Denmark and Norway as the consort of the King Frederick III of Denmark. She is known for her political influence, as well as for her cultural impact: she acted as the adviser of her husband, and introduced ballet and opera to Denmark.
Jun 24, 2020 · Sophie Amalie Moth; Credit – Wikipedia. Sophie Amalie Moth was a longtime mistress of King Christian V of Denmark and Norway. She was born in Copenhagen, Denmark on March 28, 1654, one of the eight children and the youngest of the four daughters of Paul Moth and Ida Burenneus. Sophie Amalie’s father Paul Moth (link in German) was a physician.
1650-1675. The wars of Charles Gustavus (1657-1658 and 1658-1660) were the important events in foreign politics of the period. The loss of Scania, Halland and Blekinge at the Peace of Roskilde in 1658 was a nadir of power politics in Danish history. Sophie Amalie in Coronation Robes. Frederik III and Sophie Amalie in coronation robes, 1648.
