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| | History of the Royal House of Denmark |
 | | Waldemar's elder daughter, Ingeborg, m Duke Henry of Mecklenburg and had issue Mary (1363-1402?) who m Wartislav VII, Duke of Pomerania; their son Eric VII (d 1459) became King of Norway 1389, of Denmark and Sweden 1396, and was crowned King of the Union 1397 (dethroned 1439). |
 | | 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. |
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