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| | History of the Royal House of Denmark |
 | | Christian of Oldenburg elected Christian I, King of Denmark 1448 and Norway 1450, reigned as King of Sweden 1457-64, Duke of Schleswig and Count of Holstein, Stormarn and Dithmarschen, etc 1460 (Duke from 1474). |
 | | Christian, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, later Christian IX, King of Denmark, son of Duke Wilhelm of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (b 4 Jan 1785; d 17 Feb 1831), was designated as immediate successor to his kinsman, King Frederik VII by Treaty dated 8 May 1852 and the revised Danish Law of Succession of 31 July 1853. |
 | | With the accession of Queen Margrethe II 1972 the use of the titles of King of the Wends and Goths, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein, Stormarn, Dithmarschen, Lauenburg and Oldenburg were abandoned (even though all descendants in the male line enjoy the Schlesvig, Holstein titles by right). |
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