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Personal data Christiaan 3 van Denemarken 

  • He was born on August 12, 1503 in Gottorp.
  • He died on January 1, 1559 in Koldinghus, he was 55 years old.
  • The birth parents are Frederik van Denemarken and Anna van Brandenburg
  • This information was last updated on June 10, 1997.

Household of Christiaan 3 van Denemarken

He is married to Dorothea van Saksen Lauenburg.

They got married on October 29, 1525 at Lauenburg, he was 22 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Anna van Denemarken  1532-1585 
  4. Johan van Denemarken  1545-1622 

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Birthday August 12, 1503

  • Graaf Filips II de Schone (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1494 till 1506 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1503: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 13 » Challenge of Barletta: Tournament between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
    • April 28 » The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as one of the first European battles in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
    • May 10 » Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.
    • August 8 » King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.
    • November 1 » Pope Julius II is elected.
    • December 29 » The Battle of Garigliano (1503) was fought between a Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and a French army commanded by Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo.

Day of marriage October 29, 1525

  • Graaf Karel II (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1515 till 1555 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1525: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 21 » The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
    • February 24 » A Spanish-Austrian army defeats a French army at the Battle of Pavia.
    • February 28 » Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed on the order of conquistador Hernán Cortés.
    • May 15 » Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas Müntzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants' War in the Holy Roman Empire.
    • June 13 » Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.

Day of death January 1, 1559

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1559: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 15 » Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London.
    • April 3 » The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
    • May 2 » John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the nascent Scottish Reformation.
    • June 30 » King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel, comte de Montgomery.
    • August 22 » Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
    • December 25 » Pope Pius IV is elected.


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