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Persoonlijke gegevens Ulrike Eleonora van Denemarken 

• Zij is geboren op 11 september 1656.
• Beroep: koningin van Zweden.
• Zij is overleden op 26 juli 1693, zij was toen 36 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Frederick iii van Denemarken en Sophie Amalia van Brunswijk - Lüneburg

Gezin van Ulrike Eleonora van Denemarken

Zij is getrouwd met Karl xi van Zweden.

Zij zijn getrouwd

Kind(eren):

1. Hedwig Sophia Augusta van Zweden  1681-1708 
2. Karl xii van Zweden  1682-1718
3. Gustav van Zweden  1683-1685
4. Ulric van Zweden  1684-1685
5. Friedrich van Zweden  1685-1685
6. Karl Gustav van Zweden  1686-1687
7. Ulrike Eleonora van Zweden  1688-1741

Notities over Ulrike Eleonora van Denemarken

Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark (11 September 1656 – 26 July 1693) was the Queen consort of Sweden as the spouse of King Charles XI of Sweden.

The name Ulrike is a Danish version of the name; in Swedish she is called Ulrika Eleonora den äldre (English: Ulrica Eleanor the Elder), to distinguish her from her daughter, the future queen regnant.

Ulrika was the daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark and his spouse Queen Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg. She was given a strict upbringing under the supervision of her mother. She was taught several different languages, and was reportedly a good student in drawing and painting.[1]

In 1675 she was betrothed to King Charles XI of Sweden. The purpose of the match, from the Swedish viewpoint, was to prevent Denmark from forming an alliance with the enemies of Sweden.[2] Her brother, the King of Denmark, was not enthusiastic about the match, but he left the decision to her mother, who was very eager to complete it because it would give Ulrika the status of queen.[3] The engagement was announced 13 July 1675.

During the Scanian War between Denmark and Sweden in 1675–1679 she was encouraged to break the engagement. Her brother the King broke it for her in 1676, but she herself continued to regard herself engaged. She was considered as a possible bride by the Prince of Orange in 1676, and then by the Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, but she refused a different match. During the war, she gained a reputation for loyalty to her future home country by exhibiting kindness to Swedish prisoners: she pawned her jewelry, even her engagement ring, to buy food, sheets and medicine for the Swedish prisoners of war. She also refused to participate in the celebrations arranged in honor of Danish victories over Sweden.

During the peace negotiations between Sweden and Denmark in 1679, the marriage between her and Charles XI was on the agenda, and ratified on 26 September 1679. The marriage contract was signed 6 February 1680, and when the Swedish representative Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna returned to Sweden, he escorted her to Sweden on his return home. During one of the celebrations in honor of her marriage, her name and the name of her groom was written on the night sky with fire works. One of the spectators pointed out that the person which name died out first, was the one who was going to die first. When her name went out first, she stated that she hoped it would truly be so, for she could not bear to outlive her spouse.[4]

Ulrika Eleonora was popular in Denmark because of her charity. When she left for Sweden, her brother Christian V made his farewell at Frederiksborg, during which he gave her back the jewels she had pawned in favor of the Swedish prisoners of war, including her engagement ring. When she made her farewell to him, she said that she did not think she would ever see him again, but: "as I am now regarded a pawn of peace between Denmark and Sweden, I ask God for the grace to fulfill such a glorious commitment; so that my behavior may contribute to eradicate all hostility between these two people and instead forever unite them in friendship".[5]

In Helsingör, where she said her farewell to her mother and sisters, she thanked the Danes for their farewell greetings with the words: "Thank you! By my heart I thank you! May I ever be remembered in Denmark with the same tenderness, and may God give me the grace to live such, that I by the last separation [death] can be followed by the same love from my subjects!"

Issue
Hedwig Sophia Augusta (26 June 1681 – 22 December 1708), married 12 May 1698 Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp.
King Charles XII (17 June 1682 – 30 November 1718).
Gustav (14 June 1683 – 26 April 1685).
Ulric (2 August 1684 – 8 June 1685).
Frederick (7 October 1685 – 22 October 1685).
Charles Gustav (27 December 1686 – 13 February 1687).
Queen Ulrika Eleonora (23 January 1688 – 24 November 1741), married 24 March 1715 Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel.

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