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  Christian IX of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christian IX of Denmark (April 8, 1818 – January 29, 1906) was King of Denmark from November 15, 1863 to January 29, 1906.
Christian was immediately plunged into a crisis over the possession and status of Schleswig and Holstein, two provinces to Denmark's south when, under pressure, he signed the November Constitution, a treaty that made Schleswig part of Denmark.
Christian died peacefully of old age at 87 in Copenhagen and was buried in Roskilde Cathedral.
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 Frederick VII of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frederick was born in Amalienborg Palace to Christian VIII of Denmark and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Prince Christian of Glücksburg (1818-1906) had been a foster "grandson" of the sonless royal couple Frederick VI and his queen consort Marie, thus familiar with the royal court and the traditions of the recent monarchs.
Christian of Glücksburg (1818-1906) married then Princess Louise of Hesse, eldest daughter of the eldest son of the closest female relative of Frederick VII.
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 History of Schleswig-Holstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1713 the regent broke the stipulated neutrality of the duchy in favour of Sweden and Frederick IV of Denmark seized the excuse to expel the duke by force of arms.
When Christian VIII succeeded his first cousin Frederick VI in 1839 the elder male line of the house of Oldenburg was obviously on the point of extinction, the king's only son and heir having no children.
After Christian IX of Denmark merged Schleswig and Holstein into Denmark in 1863 after his ascension to the Danish throne that year, Bismarck's diplomatic abilities finally convinced Austria to participate in the war, with the assent of the other European large powers and under the auspices of the German Confederation.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Christian of Glucksburg
Christian IX of Denmark (April 8, 1818 –; January 29, 1906) was King of Denmark from November 15, 1863 to January 29, 1906.
Christian VIII (September 18, 1786–January 20, 1848), king of Denmark 1839-48 and of Norway 1814-14, the eldest son of the hereditary prince Frederick of Denmark and Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, was born in 1786 at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen.
Christian died peacefully of old age at 87 in Copenhagen and was buried at Roskilde, Denmark.
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 Christian X of Denmark Encyclopedia Articles @ ArtisticNudity.com (Artistic Nudity)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In April of 1920, Christian instigated the Easter Crisis, perhaps the most decisive event in the evolution of the Danish monarchy in the 20th century.
The immediate cause was a conflict between the king and the cabinet over the reunification with Denmark of Schleswig, a former Danish fiefdom, which had been lost to Prussia during the Second War of Schleswig.
Subsequently, Christian dismissed the rest of the legitimate government and replaced it with a de facto conservative care-taker cabinet.
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 Friesch Dagblad - De gemoedelijke schoonvader van Europa
Christian was bijvoorbeeld getrouwd met prinses Louise van Hessen-Kassel, wier moeder een Deense prinses was uit het uitgestorven koningshuis.
Christian wenste Sleeswijk bij Denemarken te voegen; Duitsland palmde echter het gebied na een korte oorlog in.
Christian IX wandelde er veel met zijn honden en de kleinkinderen speelden wat op het gazon.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Schleswig
Christians were ill-treated, the Diocese of Aarhaus was suppressed, and the two other bishops were driven away.
In 1536 Lutheranism was declared the religion of the state by Christian III, the exercise of the Catholic faith was forbidden, and the property of the diocese was confiscated.
King Christian, however, in 1846 published a letter in which he declared the Danish right of succession to be also valid in the duchies, and his successor Frederick VIII (1848-63) was forced by popular assemblies at Copenhagen, soon after he came to the throne, to promise the incorporation of Schleswig into the Danish kingdom.
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 Christian IX of Denmark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Christian IX of Denmark (April 8, 1818 - January 29, 1906) wasKing of Denmark from November 15, 1863 to January 29, 1906.
Through his mother, Christian was agreat-grandson of Frederik V of Denmark,great-great-grandson of George II of GreatBritain and descendant of several other monarchs, but had no strong claim to any European throne.
Christian died of old age at 88 at Copenhagen and was buried at Roskilde,Denmark.
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 Christian_X_of_Denmark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Christian married Princess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1898; she eventually became his Queen Consort.
Standing at 1.99 meters, Christian X was the tallest of all Danish kings who have been measured.
On his passing in 1947, Christian X was interred with other members of the Danish royal family in Roskilde Cathedral near Copenhagen.
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 Christian X av Danmark - Wikipedia
Christian X (tidligere på norsk Kristian X) var en dansk konge av slekten Glücksburg (Lyksborg) 1912-1947.
Med sin militære fremtoning var han meget lik sin farfar, Christian 9.
Ved første verdenskrigs utbrudd i 1914 går Christian 10.
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 Christian ix of denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg854 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Christian VIII King of Denmark [Parents] was born 18 Sep 1786 in Christainsborg Nr: Copenhagen, Denmark.
Christian married Charlotte on 21 Jun 1806 in Ludwigslust.
Charlotte married Christian VIII King of Denmark on 21 Jun 1806 in Ludwigslust.
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 Christian X of Denmark Encyclopedia Articles @ CreatedByGod.com (Created by God)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Christian X of Denmark (Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm) (September 26, 1870 – April 20, 1947) was King of Denmark from 1912 to 1947 and of Iceland between 1918 and 1944.
He was the brother of prince Carl of Denmark, who became king Haakon VII of Norway in 1905.
Reign During World War II In contrast to the monarchs of Norway and the Netherlands, who went into exile during the Nazi occupation of their countries, Christian X remained in his capital throughout the occupation of Denmark, being to the Danish people a visible symbol of the national cause.
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 SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION - LoveToKnow Article on SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Frederick was killed at the battle of Klissow in 1702, and his brother Christian Augustus acted as regent for his son Charles Frederick until 1718.
In 1713 the regent broke the stipulated neutrality of the duchy in favor of Sweden and Frederick IV.
On the 28th of December a motion was introduced in the diet by Austria and Prussia, calling on the Confederation to occupy Schleswig as a pledge for the observance by Denmark of the compacts of 5852.
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 Resume
The three next sovereigns, Queen Victoria, Czar Alexander II, and King Christian IX were all offshoots of their own royal families but their paths to the throne were successful and it is their descendants who rule Europe today.
He insisted on marrying her, and once she had given him seven surviving children and her health had failed, it was his Russian mistress who ensured that the flock of children increased by a further four.
Christian (IX) was born in 1818 at Gottorp Castle in North Germany, but grew up at the neighbouring Glücksburg Castle, which King Frederik VI of Denmark had given to his parents.
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 Maria Fyodorovna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Princess Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar (November 26, 1847 – October 13, 1928) was born as the second daughter of Louise of Hesse and Christian IX of Denmark.
She was baptized Lutheran and born as a daughter of relatively impoverished princely cadet line: Her father became King of Denmark six days after her marriage.
Due to the brilliant marriages of his children, however, Christian IX was known as the "Father-in-law of Europe."
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dagmar_of_Denmark   (625 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Schleswig-Holstein Question Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
On the death of Adolf in 1459 without issue, King Christian I, though he had been forced to swear to the Constilutio Valdemariana, I succeeded in asserting his claim to Schleswig in right of King his mother, Adolf's sister.
Peter as duke of Gottorp, Adolphus Frederick, bishop of Lübeck, son of Christian Augustus, acted as regent until 1745; in 1751 he became king of Sweden.
When Christian VIII succeeded his father Frederick VI in 1839 the elder male line of the house of Oldenburg was obviously on the point of extinction, the kings only son and heir having no children.
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 Christian IX of Denmark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
his mother Christian was a great-grandson of Frederik V of Denmark great-great-grandson of George II of Great Britain and descendant of several other monarchs had no strong claim to any European
In 1842 he married of Hesse-Kassel a niece of Christian VIII and had a family of six by her.
In 1847 he was willed the Danish throne Christian VIII as Christian VIII did not his only surviving son the future Frederik VII to have any sons.
www.freeglossary.com /Christian_IX_of_Denmark   (622 words)

  
 Christian X of Denmark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Christian married Princess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1898 and she eventually became his Queen Consort They had two children:
In contrast to the monarchs of Norway and the Netherlands, who went into exile during the Nazi occupation of their countries, Christian X remained in his capital throughout the occupation of Denmark, being to the Danish people a visible symbol of the national cause.
Christian 10 Category:Knights of the Garter Category:House of Glücksburg Christian X of Denmark Christian X of Denmark da:Christian 10.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Christian IX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
CHRISTIAN IX [Christian IX] 1818-1906, king of Denmark (1863-1906).
The London Conference of 1852 had settled on him the contested succession to the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein, but in 1863 Christian accepted parliament's annexation of Schleswig to the Danish crown.
During Christian's reign there was continual liberal agitation for a more democratic constitution.
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 Jubilee (Christian)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The year of Jubilee in both the Jewish and Christian is a time of joy the year remission or universal pardon.
In Mosiac law each fiftieth year was to be as a jubilee year and that at season every household should recover its absent the land return to its former owners Hebrew slaves be set free and debts remitted (see Jubilee (Biblical)).
The same conception spiritualized forms the fundamental of the Christian Jubilee though it is to judge how far any sort of can have existed between the two.
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He was descended from King Christian III´s son, Hans the Younger (1545-1622), and moreover was married to Princess Louise of Hessen-Kassel (1817-1898), niece of King Christian VIII (1786-1848).
King Christian IX and Queen Louise had six children, and because several of the children married into the foremost royal houses of Europe King Christian was often called the "Father-in-law of Europe".
During the reign of King Christian IX the whole family regularly foregathered at Fredensborg Castle north of Copenhagen.
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 Augustenburg, Christian Augustus, Herzog von - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Augustenburg, Christian Augustus, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Administrative region (German Land) in north Germany, bounded to the north by Denmark, to the east by the Baltic Sea and Mecklenberg-West Pomerania, to the south by Lower Saxony and Hamburg, and to the west by the North Sea and the Heligoland Bight; area 15,770 sq km/6,089 sq mi; population (2003 est) 2,814,100.
Holstein also came under Danish rule, though, unlike Schleswig, it formed part of the Holy Roman Empire, and the two duchies remained annexed to the Danish crown until the 19th century, when there appeared a prospect of the direct male line of the Danish dynasty dying out.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 RULERS OF DENMARK (DANMARK)
  Christianity was introduced under his son Harald I but conversion was not complete until the reign of Knud I. Under Svend I and Knud I, the Danes took over England in 1013–1014 and 1016–1042, and dominated much of the Baltic and Scandinavia (Norway 1030–1035).
CHRISTIAN IV Son of Frederik II Son of Christian IV Son of Frederik III
CHRISTIAN VI Son of Frederik IV Son of Christian VI Son of Frederik V
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 Short History of Schleswig-Holstein
King Christian's open letter inspired a new wave of German Nationalism, causing all of Germany to denounce the king's letter.7 The end of the 1840s saw Schleswig as a "battleground of rival national movements.
King Frederick was the last of the royal line, and, according to the Treaty of London, Prince Christian of Glucksburg was made King Christian IX.
It was in 1864 that Christian Friedrich Bothmann and his family fled the country because of the December invasion of Schleswig-Holstein by the Austro-Prussian Alliance.
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