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- Frederick VII (Frederik Carl Christian; 6 October 1808 – 15 November 1863) was King of Denmark from 1848 to 1863. He was the last Danish monarch of the older Royal branch of the House of Oldenburg and the last king of Denmark to rule as an absolute monarch.
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Frederick VII (Frederik Carl Christian; 6 October 1808 – 15 November 1863) was King of Denmark from 1848 to 1863. He was the last Danish monarch of the older Royal branch of the House of Oldenburg and the last king of Denmark to rule as an absolute monarch.
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The Duchy of Oldenburg (German: Herzogtum Oldenburg) named after its capital, the town of Oldenburg was a state in the north-west of present-day Germany. The counts of Oldenburg died out in 1667, after which it became a duchy until 1810, when it was annexed by the First French Empire.
The House of Oldenburg held the Danish Crown between 1448 and 1863, when it passed to the house of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a cadet branch of the same house, patrilineally descended from King Christian III of Denmark.
NameBirthMarriagesDeathSweyn II Estridsson (Svend Estridsen) ...c. 1019 England son of jarl Ulf ...(1) Gyda of Sweden c. 1048 (2) Gunnhildr ...28 April 1076 Søderup aged 57–58Harald III the Soft (Harald Hén) ...c. 1040 illegitimate son of Sweyn II17 April 1080 aged 40Cnut IV the Holy (Knud den Hellige) ...c. 1042 illegitimate son of Sweyn IIAdela of Flanders c. 1080 three children10 July 1086 St. Alban's Priory aged ...Olaf I Hunger (Oluf Hunger) 1086–1095c. 1050 illegitimate son of Sweyn IIIngegerd of Norway c. 1070 one daughter18 August 1095 aged 44–45Grand Duke of Oldenburg Born: July 13, 1783 at Schloss Rastede, near Oldenburg Parents: Prince Peter of Holstein-Gottorp (later Grand Duke Peter I) and Duchess Friederike of Württemberg
1730–1746 Christian IX, in personal union as Christian VI King of Denmark-Norway; 1746–1766 Frederick III, in personal union as Frederick V King of Denmark-Norway; 1766–1773 Christian X, in personal union as Christian VII King of Denmark-Norway, ceded the county to the Holstein-Gottorp line
With the fall of the German Empire at the end of World War I, Friedrich August II, the last Grand Duke of Oldenburg was forced to abdicate his throne on November 11, 1918. He retired to Schloss Rastede where he took up farming.
Dec 21, 2020 · The last reigning Grand Duke, Friedrich August, maintained this hereditary conservatism, but was also very popular, in particular due to his achievements in continuing to develop trade centres for Oldenburg, notably in its canals and ports along the Weser River.
