Frederik I, Anna of Brandenburg and Sophie of Pomerania

[norwegianne]

Name: Frederik I

Birth: 7 October, 1471 at Haderslevhus

Child of: Christian I and Dorothea of Brandenburg

Reign: 1523-33

Marriage: Anna of Brandenburg & Sophie of Pommerania

Children: With Anna: Christian (1503-1559) & Dorothea (1504-1547), with Sophie:Hans (1521-1580), Elisabeth (1524-1586), Adolf (1526-1586), Dorothea (1528-1575), Frederik (1529-56)

Death: 10 April 1533, Gottorp Castle

Throne passed to: Christian III

Notes:

Brother of King Hans. The first king to be called Frederik.

He stayed at Gottorp for most of his reign, only visiting Denmark when needed. Never visited Norway.

 

[norwegianne]

Anna of Brandenburg

Born in 1487 in Berlin. The daughter of Johann of Brandenburg and Margrete of Saxony. Married to Frederik in a double wedding, where her brother Joachim married Frederik's niece Elisabeth. Died in 1514 in Kiel of Tuberculosis. Died before becoming queen of Denmark.

Sophie of Pomerania
Daughter of Bugislav 10. of Pomerania and Anna of Poland. Born 1498. Died: 1568.

 

[CyrilVladisla]

A German psalm, Gott ist mein Heil, Hulf und Trost is believed to have been written by Sophie of Pomerania.
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[Blog Real]

Gold coin or medal of Frederik I. Shows him together with Sophia on the obverse, and coat of arms on the reverse.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Fredrik_I_medalje.jpg

Portrait of Anna of Brandenburg from the Bordesholm cenotaph.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Bordesholm_Kenotaph_Anna.jpg

Portrait of Frederick attributed to Jacob Binck, 1539.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Frederik1dk.jpg

Portrait of Sophie of Pomerania.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Dronning-Sophie.jpg

 

[CyrilVladisla]

King Frederik I was Roman Catholic. He encouraged the first publication of the Bible in the Danish language.

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Illustration of Anna of Brandenburg
http://denstoredanske.lex.dk/Anna_af_Brandenburg

 

[An Ard Ri]

Following the death of Anna in 1514,Frederick had the famous Bordesholm altar commissioned in her memory and thankfully it survived the Reformation.
https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordesholmalteret

 

[An Ard Ri]

Frederik I was the last Catholic Monarch of Denmark ,he died in 1533 .
His second wife Sophie of Pomerania also appears to have remained Catholic and left Denmark after his death and settled on her estates in Schleswig where she died in 1568.