Ancestral Trails 2016 » Christian III of DENMARK (1503-1559)

Persoonlijke gegevens Christian III of DENMARK 

• Hij is geboren op 12 augustus 1503 in Göttorp, Kalmar, Sweden.
• Hij is overleden op 1 januari 1559 in Koldinghus, Kolding, Vejle, Denmark, hij was toen 55 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven januari 1559 in Roskilde Cathedral, Jutland, Denmark.
• Een kind van Friedrich I of DENMARK en Anna von BRANDENBURG

Gezin van Christian III of DENMARK

Hij is getrouwd met Dorothea von SAXE-LAUENBURG.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 29 oktober 1525 te Schloss Lauenburg, Lauenburg, Herzogtum Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, hij was toen 22 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Dorothea of DENMARK  1546-1617 
2. Anne of DENMARK  1532-1585 
3. Magnus of DENMARK  1540-1583
4. Friedrich II of DENMARK  1534-1588 
5. Johann von SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-SONDERBURG  1545-1622 

Notities over Christian III of DENMARK

Christian III (12 August 1503 - 1 January 1559) reigned as king of Denmark from 1534 until his death and Norway from 1537 until his death. During his reign, Christian established Lutheranism as the state religion within his realms as part of the Protestant Reformation.

Christian was the eldest son of future king Frederick I and Anna of Brandenburg. He was born at Gottorf Castle which Frederick I had made a primary residence. In 1514, when he was just ten years old, Christian's mother died. Four years later, his father remarried to Sophie of Pomerania (1498-1568). In 1523, Frederick I was elected king of Denmark in the place of his nephew, Christian II. The young prince Christian's first public service after his father became king was gaining the submission of Copenhagen, which stood firm for the fugitive Christian II. As stadtholder of the Duchies of Holstein and Schleswig in 1526, and as viceroy of Norway in 1529, Christian III displayed considerable administrative ability.

After his father's death, in 1533, Christian was proclaimed king at an assembly in Rye, a town in eastern Jutland, in 1534. The Danish State Council (rigsraad), dominated by Roman Catholic bishops and nobles, refused to accept Duke Christian as king and turned to Count Christopher of Oldenburg in order to restore Christian II to the Danish throne. Christian II had supported both the Roman Catholics and Protestant Reformers at various times. In opposition to King Christian III, Count Christopher was proclaimed regent at the Ringsted Assembly (landsting), and at the Skåne Assembly ( landsting) on St Liber's Hill at Lund Cathedral. This resulted in a two-year civil war, known as the Count's Feud (Grevens Fejde, 1534-36), between Protestant and Catholic forces.

The foreign policy of Christian's later days was regulated by peace following the Treaty of Speyer (1544). He carefully avoided all foreign complications; refused to participate in the Schmalkaldic war of 1546; mediated between the emperor and Saxony after the fall of Maurice of Saxony at the Battle of Sievershausen in 1553. In 1549 he began the building of Landskrona Citadel. In February, 1555 he interceded successfully on the behalf of the English Bible translator Miles Coverdale, who had been imprisoned for two and a half years by Queen Mary I of England. Coverdale was released and allowed to leave England.

King Christian III died on New Year's Day 1559 at Koldinghus and was interred in Roskilde Cathedral.

Christian married Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg on 29 October 1525 at Lauenburg Castle. They were the parents of five children;

Anna of Denmark (1532-1585). Consort to Augustus, Elector of Saxony.
Frederick II (1534-1588).
Magnus, King of Livonia (1540-1583).
Johann II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plon (John the Younger; 1545-1622).
Dorothea of Denmark (1546-1617). Consort to William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and mother to George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_III_of_Denmark#Later_reign

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