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Name: Christian II
Birth: July 1, 1481
Child of: King Hans and Christina of Saxony
Reign: 1513-1523 (Denmark/Norway), 1520-1521 (Sweden)
Marriage: 1515 to Isabella of Habsburg
Children: Hans, Maximilian, Filip, Dorothea & Christine (ancestor of Queen Louise who married Frederik 8.)
Death: January 25, 1559.
Throne passed to: Frederik I (his uncle)
Notes:
As he was serving as the viceroy to Norway, he met a woman who would become his mistress, Dyveke, in Bergen.
Remembered as Christian the Tyrant in Sweden, because of his involvement in the Stockholm bloodbath.
The only Danish king to have survived his successors.
Due to an uprising in the nobility he was dethroned and imprisoned.
Birth: July 1, 1481
Child of: King Hans and Christina of Saxony
Reign: 1513-1523 (Denmark/Norway), 1520-1521 (Sweden)
Marriage: 1515 to Isabella of Habsburg
Children: Hans, Maximilian, Filip, Dorothea & Christine (ancestor of Queen Louise who married Frederik 8.)
Death: January 25, 1559.
Throne passed to: Frederik I (his uncle)
Notes:
As he was serving as the viceroy to Norway, he met a woman who would become his mistress, Dyveke, in Bergen.
Remembered as Christian the Tyrant in Sweden, because of his involvement in the Stockholm bloodbath.
The only Danish king to have survived his successors.
Due to an uprising in the nobility he was dethroned and imprisoned.
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