Sophie Amalie Moth

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Sophie Amalie Moth, Countess of Samsø
Your father, Dr. Paul (von) Moth, royal personal physician

Sophie Amalie Moth (born March 28, 1654 in Copenhagen ; † January 17, 1719 ibid) was the mistress of the Danish - Norwegian King Christian V  (* 1646; † 1699) and was raised by the king to countess of Samsø in 1677 .

origin

Sophie Amalie was the youngest daughter of Paul (von) Moth (1600–1670), royal personal physician, and his wife Ida Dorothea Bureneus (1624–1689). She grew up with her siblings at the Copenhagen court and received an upbringing from governesses appropriate for the time.

Royal romance

In 1669 the 22-year-old Crown Prince Christian noticed Sophie Amalie, who was only fifteen years old, whereupon he accepted her as his permanent mistress. Sophie was clever enough to treat the wife of the shortly later king, Charlotte Amalie (1650–1714), with respect. It remains to be seen whether the queen felt offended by the existence of a mistress or whether she was realistic enough to accept the fact. In 1676, Prime Minister Peder Schumacher Griffenfeld (1635–1699) fell out of favor and King Christian gave the island of Samsø , which he had received from Countess Magdalena Gersdorff a year earlier, to his lover. He gave her the title of Countess of Samsø and allowed her to stay . The relationship with the king resulted in five children, all of whom he publicly recognized in 1679 and who were given the family name Gyldenløve .

⚭ 1. 1696 Charlotte Amalie Gyldenløve, Countess Danneskjöld-Laurvig (1682–1699), daughter of Count Ulrich Friedrich and niece of King Christian V.
⚭ 2. 1701 Dorothea Krag af Jylland (1675–1754): Because of the ancestry and name of the first wife, the agnatic descendants from this second marriage also carried the name Danneskiold-Samsøe (while it was named after the death of the daughters first marriage there were no more name-bearer descendants from the first marriage - however, there were and still are descendants of the first marriage in the European aristocracy via a daughter, including in the houses of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Norway, Denmark, Prussia, Hanover, Greece and Spain).

More family relationships

On May 8, 1699, her niece Amalie Margarethe Moth (1683–1755), daughter of her brother Matthias (1649–1719), a doctor, lexicographer and government official valued by the king, married Baron Christian Gyldenkrone (1676–1746) in Copenhagen influential Danish politician.

literature

  • Arnold McNaughton: The Book of Kings: A Royal Genealogy . London 1973
  • Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd: Burke's Royal Families of the World . London 1977
  • Hermann Kleinsteuber: A Nordic Richelieu . 1867
  • Heinrich August Müller: The dungeon at Munkholm, or crime and repentance of the Grand Chancellor von Griffenfeld, during the reign of King Christian V in Denmark . 1827

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sophie Amalie Moth . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 11 : Maar – Müllner . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1897, p. 490 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
  2. ↑ Amalie Margrethe Moth's descendants with Baron Christian Gyldenkrone and coat of arms , accessed on May 22, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Moth, Sophie Amalie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Countess Sophie Amalie from Samsø
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mistress of King Christian V of Denmark and Norway
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1654
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1719
Place of death Copenhagen