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Louise (Lovisa Josefina Eugenia of Sweden-Norway) b. October 31, 1851 d. March 20, 1926
Queen of Denmark. A Bernadotte princess, her parents were king Carl XV of Sweden-Norway and Queen Louise, born a princess of the Netherlands (Orange-Nassau Dynasty). Daughter Louise, nicknamed Sessan, was their sole heir, and she was extremely wealthy. In 1869 she married Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark, later king Frederik VIII. She gave birth to 8 children: Christian X of Denmark, Haakon VII of Norway, Louise of Schaumburg-Lippe, Ingeborg of Sweden, the princes Harald and Gustav and the...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Margaret the Great (Margrete Valdemarsdatter) b. 1353 d. October 28, 1412
Queen Regnant of Scandinavia. She was Margaret I of Denmark 1387-1412, and ruled Norway and Sweden 1388-1412. Belonging to the old Estrith Dynasty of Denmark, and its last member, she was the youngest daughter of King Waldemar IV Otherday of Denmark and his Queen Haelwig, née a Princess of Schleswig-Holstein. At the age of 10 she was married to king Hacon VI of Norway, a son of Magnus VII who also was Magnus IV of Sweden. She was a tireless traveler and successful negotiator all over her...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Of Denmark-Norway, Christian b. April 10, 1603 d. June 2, 1647
Prince elect of Denmark-Norway. His parents were king Christian IV of Denmark-Norway and queen Anna Cathrine von Brandenburg 1610 he was elected heir to the thrones of Denmark and Norway. The prince was more interested in wine and women than state-affairs. 1634 he married princess Magdalens Sibylla von Sachsen, daughter of Elector Johann Georg I von Sachsen. Their wedding was extremely expensive and is known as "the great Bilager". All courts of Europe were represented at the wedding. The...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Of Denmark-Norway, Christian VII b. January 29, 1749 d. March 13, 1808
King of Denmark and Norway 1766-1808. His parents were king Frederik V and queen Louise of Great Britain. Officially the king reigned for 42 years, but already in 1769 he became mentally unstabile from schizophrenia (as did his British cousin, king George III), and government was placed in the hands of his lifephysician, Count J.F. Struensee. 1766 he married his British cousin Caroline Mathilde (sister of George III). Due to the kings insanity, she fell in love with Count Struensee, and had a...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Of Denmark-Norway, Frederik V b. March 31, 1723 d. January 14, 1766
King of Denmark and Norway 1746-1766. born on the old Castle of Copenhagen as the only son of then crownprince Christian, later king Christian VI and his consort Sophie Magdalene von Brandenburg-Kulmbach. The king was kind-hearted and honest. He did not share his parents pietistic religious beliefs. He was outspoken and understanding in his royal absolutism, however the economy of the kingdom was weakened because of his extremely expensive royal household. The king was unbalanced and showed...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Of Denmark-Norway, Frederik VI b. January 28, 1768 d. December 3, 1839
King of Denmark 1808-1838 and Norway 1808-1814. Born in Christiansborg Palace as the only son of King Christian VII and queen Caroline Mathilde of Great Britain. In 1772 his stepgrandmother, queen Juliane Marie von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, arranged a coup d'etat against his father, and placed her son, hereditary prince Frederik, in power. 1784, after his religious confirmation, the young crownprince Frederik headed a counter-coup at the palace, and gained control over the government. He was...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Of Great Britain, Louise b. December 18, 1724 d. December 19, 1751
Queen of Denmark and Norway. She was born in Leicester House in London as the daughter of king George II of Great Britain and Hannover and queen Caroline von Brandenburg-Ansbach. Married by proxy in Hannover Nov. 10 1743 and in person in Copenhagen Dec.11 1743 to crownprince Frederik, later king Frederik V of Denmark and Norway. She gave birth to 5 children: queen Sophie Magdalene of Sweden, Wilhelmine, electress of Hessen-Kassel, King Christian VII and landgräfin Louise of Hessen-Kassel (the...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderborg-Augustenborg, Caroline Amalie b. June 28, 1796 d. March 9, 1881
Queen of Denmark. Her parents were Duke Friedrich Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderborg-Augustenborg and Duchess Louise Augusta, born princess of Denmark and Norway. (Louise Augusta was the daughter of queen Caroline Mathilde (of Great Britain) and Count Johann Friedrich Struensee - nonetheless the king Christian VII accepted her as his child).May 22, 1815 og the Castle Augustenborg she was married to prince Christian of Denmark and Norway, later king Christian VIII, as his 2nd wife...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Oldenburg, Louise Charlotte b. October 30, 1789 d. March 28, 1864
European Royalty. Princess of Denmark, she was the daughter of Frederik Oldenburg, Crown Prince of Denmark and Sophie Friederike Herzogin von Mecklenburg-Schwerin. She married Wilhelm X Landgraf von Hessen-Kassel zu Rumpenheim, son of Friedrich III Prinz General von Hessen-Kassel and Karoline Polyxena Prinzessin von Nassau-Usingen. She was also known as Charlotte of Denmark. (Bio by: MC)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Plot: Kapelle Frederiks V
Pedersen, Niels-Henning Ørsted b. May 27, 1946 d. April 19, 2005
Jazz Musician. Colloquially known as NHØP he is considered one of the most outstanding bass-players of our time and an innovator of the modern bass-playing of jazz. He began playing the bass at an early age, and during the 1960s, right from his early teens, he was a house-musician at the legendary Jazzhouse Montmartre in Copenhagen where he accompanied a large number of international musicians such as Bud Powell, Coleman Hawkins, Johnny Griffin, Ben Webster, Stan Getz and Stephan Grapelli just...[Read More] (Bio by: Erik Skytte)
Osted Churchyard, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Von Brandenburg, Anna Cathrine b. June 26, 1575 d. March 29, 1612
Queen of Denmark and Norway. Her parents were elector Joachim Friedrich von Brandenburg and electress Katharina von Brandenburg-Küstrin. 1597 married to king Christian IV of Denmark-Norway. She gave birth to 6 children, among whom were Christian, the prince elect, who died the year before his father in 1647, and therefore never ascended the throne, king Frederik III of Denmark-Norway and Ulrik, prince and bishop of Schwerin. The queen had to accept her husbands sexual appetite for other women. (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Von Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Sophie Magdalene b. November 28, 1700 d. May 27, 1770
Queen of Denmark and Norway. Her parents were markgraf Christian Heinrich von Brandenburg-Kulmbach and markgräfin Sophie Christiana, born countess von Wolfstein zu Obersulzbürg. 1721 married to crownprince Christian of Denmark-Norway, later king Christian VI, on Castle Pretzsch in Saxony. She gave birth to 2 children: king Frederik V and duchess Louise von Sachsen-Hildburghausen. The Queen was deeply religious and was influenced by the religious movement of pietism with its personal faith and...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Von Braunschweig-LüNeburg, Sophie Amalie b. March 24, 1628 d. February 20, 1685
Danish-Norwegian Monarch. Her parents were Duke Georg of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Duchess Anna Eleonore von Hessen-Darmstadt. In 1643 she was married to King Frederik III of Denmark-Norway,to whom she gave birth to 8 children among whom were: King Christian V of Denmark-Norway, Prince George of Great Britain (married to Queen Anne Stuart), Queen Ulrike Eleonore of Sweden, Anna Sophie, Electress of Saxony, Wilhelmine, Electress of Palatine (Pfalz) and Frederike Amalie, Duchess of Schleswig-...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Juliane Marie b. September 4, 1729 d. October 10, 1796
Queen of Danmark and Norway. Second wife of King Frederik V. Her parents were Duke Ferdinand Albrecht and Duchess Antoinette Amalie von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. Her sister Elisabeth was married to King Frederik the Great of Prussia, and her brother Anton Ulrich was the father of the unhappy and unfortunate Zar Ivan VI of Russia, who was deposed by Zarina Elisabeth. Four of his siblings went into exile in Denmark and their aunt, Juliane Marie had them installed in a house in Horsens, Jutland...[Read More]
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Von Hessen-Kassel, Charlotte Amalie b. April 27, 1650 d. March 27, 1714
Queen of Denmark and Norway. Her parents were Landgraf Wilhelm VI of Hessen-Kassel and Landgräfin Hedwig Sophia of Brandenburg. Charlotte Amalie was brought up in the Calvinist Protestant faith, and she remained a calvinist although it was expected, that she should convert into the Lutheran faith as Queen of Denmark and Norway. She established the Reformed Church in the strictly lutheran city of Copenhagen. 1665 she was married to crownprince Christian, later king Christian V. She gave birth to...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Von Hessen-Kassel, Louise b. September 7, 1817 d. September 29, 1898
Danish Monarch. She was the daughter of Landgraf Wilhelm von Hessen-Kassel and Princess Charlotte of Denmark - a grand-daughter of King Frederik V. She married in 1842 to Prince Christian von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, who in 1853 was appointed heir to the throne after the childless King Frederik VII. Louise was a royal matchmaker, feared by the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who thought she was conspiring against Prussia when she was gathering her extended European family...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Von Hessen-Kassel, Marie Sophie Frederikke b. October 28, 1767 d. March 21, 1852
Queen of Denmark and Norway. Daughter of Landgraf Karl von Hessen-Kassel and Landgräfin Louise, born princess of Denmark and Norway(youngest daughter of king Frederik V and queen Louise of Great Britain) 1769 the Hessen-Kassel-family moved to schloss Gottorp in Schleswig, where the landgraf was promoted governor og the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. 1790 married to crownprince Frederik, later king Frederik VI of Denmark and Norway. She gave birth to 8 children: 6 died in infancy. Princess...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Von Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Louise b. August 28, 1667 d. March 15, 1721
Danish-Norwegian Monarch. Her parents were Duke Gustav Adolf of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp. In 1695 she married Crown Prince Frederik, who later became later King Frederik IV of Denmark and Norway. She gave birth to 5 children, among whom were King Christian VI. The marriage between the king and queen was loveless, and twice in her lifetime did she have to accept, that her husband married other women to his "left hand." The queen felt very...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Von Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Alexandrine b. December 24, 1879 d. December 28, 1952
Queen of Denmark. Her parents were Grand-duke Friedrich Franz III of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Grand-duchess Anastasia of Russia. 1898 married to Prince Christian of Denmark, later King Christian X. She gave birth to two sons, king Frederik IX and Hereditary Prince Knud. (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Von Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Sophie b. September 4, 1557 d. October 4, 1631
Queen of Denmark and Norway. Her parents were Duke Ulrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Duchess Elisabeth (born princess of Denmark and Norway - her parents were king Frederik I and Queen Sophie). Married to king Frederik II of Denmark and Norway at the Castle of Copenhagen on July 20, 1572. She gave birth to 7 children: Elisabeth, Duchess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel -Anna, queen of Scotland and England. She was married to king James VI and I of Scotland and England. - Christian IV, king of...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark

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