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Personal data Johan Adolph von SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-GOTTORP 


Household of Johan Adolph von SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-GOTTORP

He is married to Augusta of DENMARK.

They got married on August 30, 1596 at Copenhagen Castle, Kobenhavn, Denmark, he was 21 years old.


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    • Notes about Johan Adolph von SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-GOTTORP

    Johann Adolf of Holstein-Gottorp (27 February 1575 - 31 March 1616) was a Duke of Holstein-Gottorp.

    He was a third son of Duke Adolf of Holstein-Gottorp and his wife Christine of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel). He became the first Lutheran Administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck (1586-1607) and the Administrator of the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen (1589-1596). He became the Duke after the deaths of his two elder brothers. After succeeding in 1590 his father as ruling Duke the Bremian Chapter enforced his resignation in favour of his younger brother John Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince-Bishop.

    He was married on 30 August 1596 to Princess Augusta of Denmark, daughter of King Frederick II of Denmark. They had the following children:

    Frederick III of Holstein-Gottorp (22 December 1597 - 10 August 1659).
    Elisabeth Sofie (12 October 1599 - 25 November 1627), married on 5 March 1621 to Duke Augustus of Saxe-Lauenburg.
    Adolf (15 September 1600 - 19 September 1631).
    Dorothea Auguste (12 May 1602 - 13 March 1682), married in 1633 to Joachim Ernest, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön.
    Hedwig (23 December 1603 - 22 March 1657), married on 15 July 1620 to Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach.
    Anna (19 December 1605 - 20 March 1623).
    John (18 March 1606 - 21 February 1655).
    Christian, died young in 1609.
    SOURCE: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adolf,_Duke_of_Holstein-Gottorp

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Birthday February 27, 1575

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1575: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 8 » Leiden University is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.
    • June 28 » Sengoku period of Japan: The combined forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu are victorious in the Battle of Nagashino.
    • July 7 » The Raid of the Redeswire is the last major battle between England and Scotland.
    • October 10 » Roman Catholic forces under Henry I, Duke of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
    • October 22 » Foundation of Aguascalientes City in New Spain.
    • December 16 » An earthquake with an estimated of 8.5Mw  strikes Valdivia, Chile.

Day of marriage August 30, 1596

  • Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1596: Source: Wikipedia
    • June 10 » Willem Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk discover Bear Island.
    • June 17 » The Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz discovers the Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen.
    • September 20 » Diego de Montemayor founds the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
    • October 19 » The Spanish ship San Felipe runs aground on the coast of Japan and its cargo is confiscated by local authorities

Day of death March 31, 1616

  • Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1616: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 26 » Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
    • March 5 » Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.
    • March 20 » Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
    • May 3 » Treaty of Loudun ends French civil war.
    • July 11 » Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
    • October 25 » Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.


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