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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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Queen consort of Denmark (1461–1521) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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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Christina of Saxony married Hans, king of Norway and Denmark, who reigned from 1481 to 1513. Hans was also king of Sweden from 1497 to 1501, but the Union was breaking up; Sweden's regent, Sten Sture was vying for power. Hans and Christina of Saxony arrived to stay in Stockholm palace in January 1501.
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 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
House of OldenburgMain Line. Christina of Denmark ( Danish: Christine af Danmark; November 1521 – 10 December 1590) was a Danish princess, the younger surviving daughter of King Christian II of Denmark and Norway and Isabella of Austria. By her two marriages, she became Duchess of Milan, then Duchess of Lorraine.
Landgravine consort of Hesse / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Christine of Saxony (25 December 1505 – 15 April 1549) was a German noble, landgravine consort of Hesse by marriage to Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. She was the regent of Hesse during the absence of her spouse in 1547–1549. She was the daughter of George the Bearded, Duke ...
