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Wettin. Father. Ernst, Elector of Saxony. Mother. Elisabeth of Bavaria. Wall sculpture depicting Queen Christina together with her husband King John II and their son Francis. Christina of Saxony (25 December 1461 – 8 December 1521), was Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden as the wife of King John .
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Christine of Saxony (25 December 1505 – 15 April 1549) was a German nobleman, landgravine consort of Hesse by her marriage to Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. [1] She was the regent of Hesse during the absence of her spouse in 1547–1549. She was a daughter of George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony and Barbara Jagiellon.
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Christina of Saxony (born Torgau, 25 December 1461 – died Odense, 8 December 1521), was Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden as the wife of King John.
Christina of Saxony (1461–1521) Queen of Norway and Denmark. Name variations: Christine. Born on December 25, 1461; died on December 8, 1521; daughter of Ernest (b. 1441), elector of Saxony; sister of Margaret of Saxony (1469–1528); married John I or Johannes also known as Hans, king of Norway and Denmark (r. 1481–1513), on September 6 ...
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Christina was born in Stockholm. Her birth occurred during a rare astrological conjunction that fueled great speculation on what influence the child, fervently hoped to be a boy, would later have on the world stage. The queen had already given birth to two sons, one of whom was stillborn and the other lived only one year. The queen was now expected...
Christina was crowned as King (not Queen) after her father's death. Between 1632 and 1644, national policy was by her guardian, regent, and adviser Axel Oxenstierna, chancellor to her father and until she reached her majority principal, member of the governing regency council. After her assumption of direct power, Christina's reign was overshadowed...
Then, adopting her baptismal name of Maria Christina Alexandra, she moved to Rome. Her reception there had been pre-arranged. Her conversion was considered to be important even if it had contributed to her abdication. It would have been difficult if not impossible for her to rule Sweden as a Catholic, with Lutheranism firmly established as the stat...
The complex character of Christina has inspired numerous plays, books, and operatic works. August Strindberg's 1901 Kristinadepicts her as a protean, impulsive creature. "Each one gets the Christina he deserves" she remarks. The most famous fictional treatment is the classic feature film Queen Christina from 1933 starring Greta Garbo. This film, wh...
Åkerman, Susanna. Queen Christina of Sweden and her circle: the transformation of a seventeenth-century philosophical libertine. Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 21. Leiden, NL: E.J. Bri...Buckley, Veronica. Christina, Queen of Sweden: the restless life of a European eccentric. New York, NY: Fourth Estate, 2004. ISBN 9780060736170Goldsmith, Margaret L. Christina of Sweden, a psychological biography.Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1933.Hjortsjö, Carl-Herman. The Opening of Queen Christina's Sarcophagus in Rome.Stockholm: Norstedts. 1966.All links retrieved April 18, 2022. 1. Kristina Wasa (1626—1689) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2. Abdication of Queen Christina of Sweden by Richard Cavendish, History Today54(6) (June 2004). 3. Christina, Queen of Sweden Unofficial Royalty
When Christina von Sachsen was born on 25 December 1461, in Kreis Torgau, Saxony, Germany, her father, Ernst von Sachsen, was 20 and her mother, Prinzessin Elisabeth von Bayern Wittelsbach, was 18.
© Unofficial Royalty 2021. Credit – Wikipedia. The wife of Hans, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, Christina of Saxony was born in Torgau, Electorate of Saxony, now in the German state of Saxony on December 25, 1461. She was the eldest of the seven children and the eldest of the two daughters of Ernst, Elector of Saxony and Elisabeth of Bavaria.
