Find A Grave - Sjaeland

Absalon b. 1127 d. March 21, 1201
Roman Catholic Archbishop, Statesman. He was raised with Danish monarch King Canute Lavard's son, who later became King Valdemar I. Having studied theology in Paris, France, he was appointed bishop of Roskilde, Denmark in 1158 and archbishop of Lund (in present-day Sweden) in 1177. He conducted the expeditions against the Germanic tribe the Wends, capturing their castle stronghold of Arkona on the island of Rügen in 1169 and conquered the Germanic region ofg Pomerania in 1185. He erected sea-...[Read More] (Bio by: Erik Skytte)
Sorø klosterkirke (Church of Soroe Cloister), Ringsted, Sjaeland, Denmark
Anna Sofie of Denmark-Norway b. April 16, 1693 d. January 7, 1743
Queen of Denmark and Norway. Born Countess Reventlow as the daughter of Grand-chancellor, Count Conrad Reventlow and his 2nd wife Countess Sophie Amalie Hahn. In june 1712 the Danish king Frederik IV met this young noblewoman at a masquerade at the royal Castle Koldinghus, and fell completely in love with her. The fact, that the king was already married did not stop him. He wanted her to be his wife. Shortly after they had met, the king arrived - in a carriage in the middle of the night - at...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Birger of Sweden (Birger Magnusson den Yngre) b. 1280 d. May 31, 1321
Swedish King. He ruled from the death of his father Magnus III in 1290 until his own dethronement in 1318 and was of the Bielbo Dynasty, a grandson of the great Birger Jarl. His Swedish kingdom then included Finland and from 1293 the Vyborg area of Russia. As he became King at the age of ten, a regency under his powerful marshal, Thurchetel (Torkel Knutsson), had to run the country until he came into his own around 1298. He then married Margaret, also called Martha, a daughter of Denmark's king...[Read More] (Bio by: J T Demitz)
Skt. Bendts Kirke, Ringsted, Sjaeland, Denmark
Bluetooth, Harald b. 911 d. November 1, 986
Danish Monarch. Born the son of Gorm the Old of Jylland and Thyra Danebod. Harald ascended to the throne with his father's death in 935 following Gorm's disastrous invasion of Friesland. Harald began his reign by strengthened the Danawirk series of fortifications in an attempt to create a barrier between the Holy Roman Empire and Denmark, and consolidated the kingdom won by his father. After the assassination of King Harald Graafeld of Norway, Harald attempted to add Norway to his lands, but...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Plot: 911-987
Christian I (Kristiern of Oldenburg) b. 1426 d. May 21, 1481
King of Denmark and Norway 1448-1481. King of Sweden 1457-1464. His parents were Count Dietrich Theodore of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst and Countess Haelwig from Holstein (Schaumburg Dynasty). In 1448 he was elected King of Denmark and Norway upon the death of king Christopher III. One of the reasons he was elected was his willingness to marry the widowed Dowager Queen, 18-year-old Dorothy, originally a Princess of Brandenburg. He became the founder of the royal House of Oldenburg that reigned in...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Christian III of Denmark-Norway b. August 12, 1503 d. January 1, 1559
King of Denmark and Norway 1534-1559. Born 1503 on Schloss Gottorp in Schleswig as the oldest son of king Frederik I and his 1st wife Anna von Brandenburg, when they were Duke and Duchess of Schleswig- Holstein-Gottorp. In his youth he became influenced by the reformist ideas of Dr. Martin Luther, and later in life he became the "Reformation-king", that swept the Catholic Church out of Denmark and Norway. When his father died, civil war broke out in Denmark 1534-1536. Parts of the Danish Noble...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Christian IV b. April 12, 1577 d. February 28, 1648
Danish Monarch. Born the son of Frederick II of Denmark and Norway, and Sophia of Mecklenburg at Frederiksborg Castle in Hillerød, Denmark. In 1588, at the age of 11 he ascended the throne upon the death of his father as Christian IV. He was overseen by a regency until 1596 when he came of age. He married Anna Catherine of Brandenburg in 1597 and they had one son. Christian was recognized as a heavy drinker, gambler, and carouser in the courts of Europe, but also was credited with building of a...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Christian IX b. April 8, 1818 d. January 29, 1906
Danish Monarch. Born a younger son of Duke Wilhelm of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderborg-Glücksborg and Princess Louise Caroline of Hessen-Kassel at Gottorp, Schleswig, a maternal line great-grandson of Frederik V of Denmark. As Frederik VII of Denmark had no heir, the great powers of Europe formulated the Treaty of London in 1852 which put the succession of the Danish throne in the hands of House of Glücksborg, a junior branch of the Royal House of Oldenburg. The new heir presumptive, Christian...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Christian V b. April 15, 1646 d. August 25, 1699
Danish-Norwegian Monarch. He reigned as King of Denmark and Norway from 1670 to 1699. His parents were King Frederik III and Queen Sophie Amalie von Braunschweig-Lüneburg. As Crown Prince, he went on a European tour that brought him to England and France. He spent time at the court of Louis XIV of France, whom he later tried to emulate as King. The 1st King to inherit the throne as an absolute monarch, Charles V was extremely kind and obliging, and thus he was a very popular ruler. He did not...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Christian VI of Denmark-Norway b. November 30, 1699 d. August 6, 1746
King of Denmark and Norway. His parents were king Frederik IV and queen Louise von Mecklenburg-Güstrow. As crownprince, Christian VI was expected to marry Anna of Russia, the daughter of zar Peter the Great. She was turned down by the Danish court, that did not find her distinguished enough. The king had an unfavorable apperence, and was an awkward, reserved and diffident appearance, and he introduced a very formal, pietistic and solitary lifestyle at his court. Public entertainments were...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Christian VIII b. September 18, 1786 d. January 20, 1848
Danish Monarch. Born Christian Frederik at Christiansborg Castle, Copenhagen, the eldest son of Prince Frederick of Denmark and Norway and Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He married his cousin, Charlotte Frederikke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1806; and they had one son. The marriage was dissolved in 1810. In May 1813, he was sent as stattholder, or governor, to Norway. He accepted election as king of Norway in 1814 by the Norwegian independence faction, which refused to recognize the...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Christian X b. September 26, 1870 d. April 20, 1947
Danish Monarch, King of Iceland. Born Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm at Charlottenlund Palace, son of Frederick VIII and Queen Lovisa. In 1889, he was the first heir to the throne to pass the upper secondary school examination. He then trained with the military and ever after saw himself as a soldier. In 1898 he married Duchess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin with whom he had two children; Princes Frederik and Knud. Frederik VIII died in 1912 and Christian succeeded. In...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Christoffer II of Denmark b. September 29, 1276 d. August 2, 1332
Danish Monarch. He reigned as King of Denmark from 1319 to 1326 and from 1330 to 1332. He was the younger son of king Erik V Klipping and queen Agnes von Brandenburg. He succeeded his elder brother king Erik VI Menved. Christoffer II was a weak king. When he was in need of money he pawned the country bit by bit to the Schauenburg Counts of Holstein. 1326 he was toppled from power by Count Gerhard von Holstein, who installed a child, the young Duke Valdemar of Schleswig on the throne as his...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Sorø klosterkirke (Church of Soroe Cloister), Ringsted, Sjaeland, Denmark
Christopher III (Christoph of Bavaria) b. February 26, 1418 d. January 5, 1448
Scandinavian Monarch. King of the Kalmar Union which also was called Dacia. Of the Wittelsbach Dynasty, he was born at Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, the son of Duke John of the Palatinate-Neumarkt and Catherine Vratislava,a Pomeranian princess (Greif Dynasty), who was an adopted daughter of Margaret the Great, founder of the union. He was chosen by the Danish nobility of the union, which consisted of the three united Scandinavian kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, as the...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Dorothy (Dorotea of Brandenburg) b. 1430 d. November 10, 1495
Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. She belonged to the Hohenzollern Dynasty and her parents were Margrave John the Alchemist of Brandenburg and Margravine Barbara, a Princess of Saxe-Wittenburg. With special dispensation from the Pope, and in famously lavish ceremonies, she married firstly in 1445 her second cousin King Christopher (III) of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, who died without children three years later. Secondly the following year she wed King Christian I of the same Kalmar Union of...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Euphemia Von Pommern b. 1285 d. July 26, 1330
Danish Monarch. She was the daughter of Duke Bugislaw von Pommern. In 1307 she married the later king Christoffer II of Denmark. The couple had 6 children, among whom was King Valdemar IV Atterdag of Denmark. (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Sorø klosterkirke (Church of Soroe Cloister), Ringsted, Sjaeland, Denmark
Feodorovna, Maria [original burial site] b. November 26, 1847 d. October 13, 1928
Russian Monarch. Born as Princess Dagmar of Denmark, her parents were King Christian IX and Queen Louise von Hessen-Kassel. In 1866 she married Grand-Prince Alexander Alexandrovitsch of Russia, who ascended the throne in 1881 as Tsar Alexander III of Russia. She is the mother of the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II. During the revolution in 1918 her family was butchered by Bolsheviks. The Empress managed to escape from Crimea on a British warship. After a short stay in Britain at her sister...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Frederik II of Denmark-Norway b. July 1, 1534 d. April 4, 1588
Danish Monarch. He reigned as King of Denmark and Norway from 1559 to 1588. Born at Haderslevhus Castle as the eldest son of king Christian III and queen Dorothea von Sachsen-Lauenburg. Frederik II was, as most of the Oldenburg-kings, more interested in bodily than spiritual "virtues". Among other things he never learned to write the danish language correctly. He was an extrovert person, much unlike his religious father. He was an extravagant monarch with a luxorious lifestyle. He built...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Frederik III of Denmark b. March 18, 1609 d. February 9, 1670
Danish-Norwegian Monarch. He reigned as King of Denmark and Norway from 1648 to 1670. Born on Haderslevhus Castle as the 3rd son of King Christian IV and Queen Anna Catherine of Brandenburg, he was elected King upon the death of his father. In 1643 he married Sophie Amalie of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, with whom he had 8 children. In 1657 war was declared between Denmark and Sweden, but due to a severe winter Swedish troops were able to march across the frozen waters only to find the Danish defense...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark
Frederik IV of Denmark-Norway b. October 11, 1671 d. October 12, 1730
Danish-Norwegian Monarch. He reigned from 1699 to 1730. His parents were King Christian V and Queen Charlotte Amalie von Hessen-Kassel. During his reign, Denmark and Norway were at war with Sweden during the Great Nordic War from 1709 to 1720. As a result of the war Denmark won the Duchy of Gottorp in Schleswig-Holstein, but the main target: the re-conquest of Scania, Halland and Blekinge was lost. King Frederik was very interested in the education of the peasant-children, and he established a...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Sjaeland, Denmark

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