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- Frederick I (born Oct. 7, 1471, Denmark—died April 10, 1533, Gottorp, Schleswig) was the king of Denmark (1523–33) and Norway (1524–33) who encouraged Lutheranism in Denmark but maintained a balance between opposing Lutheran and Roman Catholic factions.
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The union between Denmark and Norway, ignoring some shorter periods, lasted until 1814, when Norway briefly gained independence, and Iceland became an integral part of Denmark until 1918, when Iceland was recognised as a fully sovereign state in personal union with Denmark under a common monarch, on 1 December that same year. [citation needed]
The Kingdom of Norway as a unified realm dates to the reign of King Harald I Fairhair in the 9th century. His efforts in unifying the petty kingdoms of Norway resulted in the first known Norwegian central government. The country, however, soon fragmented and was collected into one entity in the first half of the 11th century, and Norway has ...
Frederick I (Danish and Norwegian: Frederik; German: Friedrich; Swedish: Fredrik; 7 October 1471 – 10 April 1533) was King of Denmark and Norway. He was the last Catholic monarch to reign over Denmark and Norway, when subsequent monarchs embraced Lutheranism after the Protestant Reformation .
- 1523 – 10 April 1533
- Dorothea of Brandenburg
Apr 6, 2024 · Frederick I (born Oct. 7, 1471, Denmark—died April 10, 1533, Gottorp, Schleswig) was the king of Denmark (1523–33) and Norway (1524–33) who encouraged Lutheranism in Denmark but maintained a balance between opposing Lutheran and Roman Catholic factions. This equilibrium crumbled after his death.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan 21, 2019 · According to the Landnámabók, the first settler in Iceland was Naddodd the Viking (c. 830 CE) who was sailing from Norway to the Faeroe Islands when he was blown off course. He explored the land, searching for any communities, and found no evidence of human habitation.
- Joshua J. Mark
In 1661 Frederick III introduced an absolute monarchy in Denmark and Norway, and in the following year his absolutism was acknowledged in Iceland. This event was not of any great immediate significance in Iceland; local officials, most of whom were Icelanders, continued to make important political decisions.
Dec 25, 2019 · Why is the full story of the Viking Age and High Middle Ages emerging only now? Written in the 1380s in Iceland, the Flateyarbók chronicling Norwegian history never made it to Norway. Some 600 years later a Norwegian king has finally received the book, in Norwegian.
