Christina of Saxony (1461–1521)
Christine von Sachsen (* December 25, 1461 in Torgau , † December 8, 1521 in Odense ) was a Saxon princess from the Ernestine line of the House of Wettin and by marriage Queen of Denmark , Norway and Sweden , as well as Duchess of Schleswig and Holstein .
Life
Christine was the eldest daughter of Elector Ernst von Sachsen (1441–1486) from his marriage to Elisabeth , daughter of Duke Albrecht III. from Bayern-Munich .
On September 6, 1478, Christine married the Danish Crown Prince and later King John I (1455–1513), third son of Christian I of Denmark , in Copenhagen , whose chancellor Johannes Brockstorp, also Archdeacon of Lund, received the princess in Rostock taken and taken to Copenhagen and in 1483 the royal couple was also crowned. From 1497 Johann was also King of Sweden. Christine was crowned queen in Uppsala in 1499 .
Around 1500 the royal court moved to Odense when the plague raged in Copenhagen . During the Swedish uprising of Svante Sture against King John, he fled Stockholm and left his wife Christine in the castle, which she bravely defended for 8 months, but finally had to surrender on May 9, 1502. Of the 1,000-man crew, only 70 were alive, 60 of them wounded. The queen was assured of safe conduct, but she had to spend a year under guard as a prisoner in Vadstena monastery until she was released in 1503 through the mediation of the Lübeck councilmen Hermann Messmann and Berend Bomhover . While Christine was besieged in Stockholm, the king married his 16-year-old daughter Elisabeth to the Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg. After her return to Denmark she lived separately from her husband with her own court in Næsbyhoved .
After the death of her husband, Christine turned to her brother Friedrich to expedite her son's marriage project with Archduchess Isabella . A sent to Denmark diplomatic mission realized that Christine's son of the queen's fed-insured jointure withheld. Although her brother's efforts regarding the marriage were crowned with success, Christian II continued to refuse to leave her Wittum to his mother .
Christine died in 1521 at the age of 59 and was buried in the Sankt Knuds Kirke in Odense. Today there is the carved altar, rich in figures, by Claus Berg , which she donated for the Odens Franciscan Church, which has since been demolished and on which the royal family is also depicted.
progeny
From her marriage to Johann Christine had the following children:
- Johann (1479-1480)
- Ernst (1480–1500)
- Christian II (1481–1559), King of Denmark
- ⚭ 1515 Archduchess Isabella of Austria (1501–1526)
- ⚭ 1502 Elector Joachim I Nestor of Brandenburg (1484–1535)
- Franz (1497-1511)
See also
literature
- Ingetraut Ludolphy : Friedrich the Wise: Elector of Saxony 1463-1525 , Universitätsverlag Leipzig 2006, p. 274 ff. ( Digitized version )
- Friedrich Münter : Church history of Denmark and Norway , Volume 2, Leipzig 1831, p. 389 ( digitized version )
- Friedrich Rehm: Outline of the history of the Middle Ages , Kassel 1840, p. 975 ( digitized version )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gustav Friedrich Klemm : Die Frauen , Dresden 1859, Volume 3, p. 333
- ↑ Erik Gustaf Geijer, Fredrik Ferdinand Carlson, Ludvig Vilhelm Albert Stavenow: History of Sweden , Volume 1, Hamburg 1832, p. 240
| Predecessors | government office | Successors |
|---|---|---|
| Dorothea of Brandenburg-Kulmbach | Queen of Denmark and Norway 1481–1513 |
Isabella of Austria |
| Ingeborg Åkesdotter | Queen of Sweden 1497–1501 |
Ingeborg Åkesdotter |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Christina of Saxony |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Christine of Saxony |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, as well as Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf |
| BIRTH DATE | December 25, 1461 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Torgau |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 1521 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Odense |