Ancestral Trails 2016 » Augusta of DENMARK (1580-1639)

Personal data Augusta of DENMARK 


Household of Augusta of DENMARK

She is married to Johan Adolph von SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-GOTTORP.

They got married on August 30, 1596 at Copenhagen Castle, Kobenhavn, Denmark, she was 16 years old.


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    • Notes about Augusta of DENMARK

    Princess Augusta of Denmark (8 April 1580 - 5 February 1639) was the third daughter of King Frederick II of Denmark and Sophia of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, and Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp as the wife of Duke John Adolf. She was politically influential during the reign of her son, Duke Frederick III.

    She was married on 30 August 1596 in Copenhagen to her parents' cousin Duke John Adolf of Holstein-Gottorp (1575-1616) and had eight children. The marriage was tense as the spouses disagreed on religious matters. When in 1610 John Adolf fired the Lutheran vicar Jacob Fabricius the Elder, general provost for Holstein and Schleswig ducal share, and replaced him with a Calvinist, Philipp Caesar, as the official vicar of the ducal court in 1614, Augusta refused to attend service and went by foot to the Lutheran church in Schleswig.

    As widow, she fired the Calvinist court vicar and reinstated Jacob Fabricius in 1616. She was politically influential during the reign of her son. She governed Husum castle as her dowry and there promoted arts and culture, music and gardening and schools. She supported and recommended the persecuted writer Anna Ovena Hoyer, when she fled from Holstein-Gottorp to the Swedish queen, Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg in 1632. In 1631 she came in conflict with her ruling brother Christian IV of Denmark over the inheritance of their wealthy mother.

    Her marriage to John Adolf produced eight children, four boys and four girls. Her last child, a son, did not survive infancy.

    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 Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp (12 May 1602 - 13 March 1682), married in 1633 to Joachim Ernest, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön, son of John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg.
    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 (born and died 1 December 1609).
    SOURCE: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta_of_Denmark

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Birthday April 8, 1580

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1580: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 6 » One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place.
    • July 12 » The Ostrog Bible, one of the early printed Bibles in a Slavic language, is published.
    • August 25 » War of the Portuguese Succession: Spanish victory at the Battle of Alcântara brings about the Iberian Union.
    • September 26 » Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.
    • October 10 » Over 600 Papal troops land in Ireland to support the Second Desmond Rebellion.
    • November 10 » After a three-day siege, the English Army beheads over 600 people, including papal soldiers and civilians, at Dún an Óir, Ireland.

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 February 5, 1639

  • Stadhouder Prins Frederik Hendrik (Huis van Oranje) was from 1625 till 1647 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1639: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 14 » The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut.
    • March 13 » Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard.
    • April 14 » Imperial forces are defeated by the Swedes at the Battle of Chemnitz. The Swedish victory prolongs the Thirty Years' War and allows them to advance into Bohemia.
    • August 22 » Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.


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