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Hedwig of Denmark

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Princess Hedwig of Denmark (5 August 1581 – 26 November 1641) was the youngest daughter of King Frederick II of Denmark and Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, and Electress of Saxony from 1602 to 1611 as the wife of Christian II. [1]

45 relations: Albrecht VII, Duke of Mecklenburg, Anna Jagiellon, Duchess of Pomerania, Anna of Brandenburg, Anne of Denmark, Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania, Catherine of Pomerania, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Christian I of Denmark, Christian II, Elector of Saxony, Christian III of Denmark, Christian IV of Denmark, Christian, Prince-Elect of Denmark, Cousin, Denmark, Dorothea of Brandenburg, Dorothea of Brandenburg, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg, Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, Dresden, Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia, Electorate of Saxony, Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Elizabeth of Denmark, Electress of Brandenburg, Frederick I of Denmark, Frederick II of Denmark, Frederiksborg Castle, Freiberg, Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Hillerød, House of Oldenburg, James VI and I, Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg, John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg, John George I, Elector of Saxony, John V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, List of Saxon consorts, Lutheranism, Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Magnus II, Duke of Mecklenburg, Margaret of Thuringia, Prettin, Sophie of Brandenburg, Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Sophie of Pomerania, Sophie of Pomerania, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Thirty Years' War, Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg.

Albrecht VII, Duke of Mecklenburg

Albrecht VII, the Handsome, Duke of Mecklenburg in Güstrow (25 July 1486 – 5 January 1547), was a minor ruler in North Germany of the 16th century.

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Anna Jagiellon, Duchess of Pomerania

Anna Jagiellon (12 March 1476 – 12 August 1503), was a Polish princess member of the Jagiellonian dynasty and by marriage Duchess of Pomerania.

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Anna of Brandenburg

Anna of Brandenburg (27 August 1487 – 3 May 1514) was a German noblewoman.

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Anne of Denmark

Anne of Denmark (12 December 1574 – 2 March 1619) was Queen consort of Scotland, England, and Ireland by marriage to King James VI and I. The second daughter of King Frederick II of Denmark, Anne married James in 1589 at age 15 and bore him three children who survived infancy, including the future Charles I. She demonstrated an independent streak and a willingness to use factional Scottish politics in her conflicts with James over the custody of Prince Henry and his treatment of her friend Beatrix Ruthven.

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Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania

Bogislaw X of Pomerania, the Great, (3 June 1454 – 5 October 1523) was Duke of Pomerania from 1474 until his death in 1523.

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Catherine of Pomerania, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Catherine of Pomerania-Wolgast (c. 1465–1526) was the wife of Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince of Wolfenbüttel.

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Christian I of Denmark

Christian I (February 1426 – 21 May 1481) was a Scandinavian monarch under the Kalmar Union.

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Christian II, Elector of Saxony

Christian II of Saxony (23 September 1583 – 23 June 1611) was Elector of Saxony from 1591 to 1611.

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Christian III of Denmark

Christian III (12 August 1503 – 1 January 1559) reigned as King of Denmark from 1534 until his death, and King of Norway from 1537 until his death.

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Christian IV of Denmark

Christian IV (Christian den Fjerde; 12 April 1577 – 28 February 1648), sometimes colloquially referred to as Christian Firtal in Denmark and Christian Kvart or Quart in Norway, was king of Denmark-Norway and Duke of Holstein and Schleswig from 1588 to 1648.

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Christian, Prince-Elect of Denmark

Christian (10 April 16032 June 1647) was Prince-Elect of Denmark since 1610 and Heir Apparent to the Throne of the Kingdom of Norway since 1603.

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Cousin

Commonly, "cousin" refers to a "first cousin" or equivalently "full cousin", people whose most recent common ancestor is a grandparent.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Dorothea of Brandenburg

Dorothea of Brandenburg (1430/1431 – 10 November 1495) was Queen consort of Denmark (1445–1448 and 1449–1481), Norway (1445–1448 and 1450–1481), and Sweden (1447–1448 and 1457–1464) two times each by marriage to Christopher of Bavaria and Christian I of Denmark.

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Dorothea of Brandenburg, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg

Dorothea of Brandenburg (1446 – March 1519) was a princess of Brandenburg by birth and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg.

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Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg

Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (9 July 1511 – 7 October 1571) was the wife of King Christian III of Denmark and the queen consort of Denmark and Norway.

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Dresden

Dresden (Upper and Lower Sorbian: Drježdźany, Drážďany, Drezno) is the capital city and, after Leipzig, the second-largest city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany.

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Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia

Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia (31 December 1586 – 12 February 1659) was an Electress of Saxony as the spouse of John George I, Elector of Saxony.

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Electorate of Saxony

The Electorate of Saxony (Kurfürstentum Sachsen, also Kursachsen) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire established when Emperor Charles IV raised the Ascanian duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg to the status of an Electorate by the Golden Bull of 1356.

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Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg

Elisabeth of Denmark (14 October 1524 – 15 October 1586) was Danish princess and a Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and later of Mecklenburg-Güstrow through marriage.

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Elizabeth of Denmark, Electress of Brandenburg

Elizabeth of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (24 June 1485 – 10 June 1555) was a Scandinavian princess who became Electress of Brandenburg as the spouse of Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg.

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Frederick I of Denmark

Frederick I (7 October 1471 – 10 April 1533) was the King of Denmark and Norway.

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Frederick II of Denmark

Frederick II (1 July 1534 – 4 April 1588) was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig from 1559 until his death.

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Frederiksborg Castle

Frederiksborg Castle (Frederiksborg Slot) is a palatial complex in Hillerød, Denmark.

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Freiberg

Freiberg is a university and mining town in the Free State of Saxony, Germany.

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Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Henry IV (14 June 1463 – 23 June 1514), called the Elder (Heinrich der Ältere), a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruling Prince of Wolfenbüttel from 1491 until his death.

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Hillerød

Hillerød is a Danish town with a population of 32,689 (2018) located in the centre of North Zealand some 30 km to the north of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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House of Oldenburg

The House of Oldenburg is a European dynasty of North German origin.

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James VI and I

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.

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Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg

Joachim I Nestor (21 February 1484 – 11 July 1535) was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1499–1535), the fifth member of the House of Hohenzollern.

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John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg

John II (Johann II.; 2 August 1455 – 9 January 1499) was Elector of Brandenburg from 1486 until his death, the fourth of the House of Hohenzollern.

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John George I, Elector of Saxony

John George I (German: Johann Georg I.) (5 March 1585 – 8 October 1656) was Elector of Saxony from 1611 to 1656.

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John V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

John V of Saxe-Lauenburg (also numbered John IV; 18 July 1439 – 15 August 1507) was the eldest son of Duke Bernard II of Saxe-Lauenburg and Adelheid of Pomerania-Stolp (1410 – after 1445), daughter of Duke Bogislaus VIII of Pomerania-Stolp.

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List of Saxon consorts

This is a list of the Duchesses, Electresses and Queens of Saxony; the consorts of the Duke of Saxony and its successor states; including the Electorate of Saxony, the Kingdom of Saxony, the House of Ascania, Albertine, and the Ernestine Saxony.

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Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestant Christianity which identifies with the theology of Martin Luther (1483–1546), a German friar, ecclesiastical reformer and theologian.

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Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

Magnus I of Saxe-Lauenburg (Ratzeburg, 1 January 1470 – 1 August 1543, Ratzeburg) was a Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg from the House of Ascania.

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Magnus II, Duke of Mecklenburg

Magnus II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Güstrow (1441 – 20 November 1503) was duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin from 1477 until his death.

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Margaret of Thuringia

Margaret of Thuringia or Margaret of Saxony (1449 – 13 July 1501) was a German noblewoman, Electress of Brandenburg by marriage.

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Prettin

Prettin is a town and a former municipality in Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt.

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Sophie of Brandenburg

Sophie of Brandenburg (6 June 1568 – 7 December 1622) was a German regent, Electress of Saxony by marriage to Christian I, Elector of Saxony, and regent.

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Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow

Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (4 September 1557 – 14 October 1631) was Queen of Denmark and Norway by marriage to Frederick II of Denmark.

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Sophie of Pomerania

Sophie of Pomerania (1498–1568) was queen of Denmark and Norway as the spouse of Frederick I. She is known for her independent rule over her fiefs Lolland and Falster, the castles in Kiel and Plön, and several villages in Holstein as queen.

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Sophie of Pomerania, Duchess of Mecklenburg

Sophie of Pomerania-Stettin (– 26 April 1504, Wismar), was Duchess of Mecklenburg by marriage from 1478 to 1504.

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Thirty Years' War

The Thirty Years' War was a war fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648.

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Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg

Ulrich III, Duke of Mecklenburg or Ulrich III of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (5 March 1527 – 14 March 1603) was Duke of Mecklenburg (-Güstrow) from 1555-56 to 1603.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwig_of_Denmark

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