Ulrich of Denmark (1578-1624)

Ulrich of Denmark

Ulrich Johann of Denmark , with the dynastic title Ulrich, heir to Norway, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein, Stormarn and the Dithmarschen (born December 30, 1578 in Kolding ; † March 27, 1624 in Rühn ) was a Danish prince and administrator of the dioceses of Schleswig and (as Ulrich II. ) Schwerin .

Life

Ulrich was the fourth child and the second son of Frederick II of Denmark and Norway and his wife Sophie of Mecklenburg . It was named after his grandfather, Duke Ulrich von Mecklenburg .

At the instigation of his mother, the cathedral chapter of the Schwerin diocese decided on September 24, 1590 to elect him, who was not yet twelve years old, under certain conditions to be his grandfather's successor as administrator. In 1592 he was enrolled at the University of Rostock . After long negotiations, an election surrender took place on February 19, 1597 in the Bützow monastery residence , signed by Prince Ulrich, his grandfather Duke Ulrich and his brother King Christian IV .

In 1602 he also received the Schleswig bishopric.

After Duke Ulrich's death in 1603, he entered the government of the Schwerin Monastery as Ulrich II and also became Chancellor of the University of Rostock. By the grace of God he called himself heir to Norway, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Stormarn and the Ditmarschen, administrator of the Schwerin monastery, Count of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst . In Bützow he set up his own monastery government and appointed the ducal councilor Dr. Erasmus Reutze as chancellor and tried to reform the cathedral chapter and to maintain the independence of the Mecklenburg monastery. During his reign, the pulpit in the Bützow collegiate church was built , probably by the carver Hans Peper , on which Ulrich is depicted, as well as the beginning of the Thirty Years' War .

In 1604/5 he traveled to London to see his sister Anna , who, as the wife of James I, had been Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland since 1603, and was here on May 16, 1605 Knight of the Order of the Garter .

Ulrich, who according to contemporary reports was inclined to drink , died after a short illness in the Rühn monastery . Here in 1608 he had a bishop's gallery decorated with his coat of arms built. His body was first buried with a lavish ceremony on May 24, 1624 in the Bützow collegiate church; In 1642, King Christian IV had the coffin transferred to Denmark and finally buried in Roskilde Cathedral .

His successor as administrator in Schwerin was his nephew of the same name, a son of Christian IV, as Ulrich III. The Schleswig bishopric fell to the Danish crown.

Ulrich lived in a marriage-like community with Katharina Hahn , to whom he gave the Zibühl estate (today part of Dreetz in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania).

literature

• Franz Schildt: The diocese of Schwerin in the Protestant era. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. 49 (1884), pp. 145-279 ( full text )
• Josef Traeger : The bishops of the medieval diocese of Schwerin. With an appendix: Administrators and candidates in the post-Reformation period. Niels Stensen as bishop in Schwerin 1685/86. St. Benno Verlag, Leipzig 1984, p. 226f.

ancestors

King Friedrich I (1471–1533)

King Christian III (1503–1559)

Anna of Brandenburg (1487–1514)

King Friedrich II. (1534–1588)

Magnus I of Saxony-Lauenburg (1470–1543)

Dorothea of ​​Saxony-Lauenburg (1511–1571)

Katharina of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1488–1563)

Ulrich of Denmark

Albert VII Duke of Mecklenburg , (1486–1547)

Ulrich of Mecklenburg (1527–1603)

Anna of Brandenburg (1507–1567)

Sophie of Mecklenburg (1557–1631)

King Friedrich I (1471–1533)

Elisabeth of Denmark (1524–1586)

Anna of Brandenburg (1487–1514)

As a result of family marriages, King Friedrich I of Denmark and his wife Anna of Brandenburg are two great-grandparents of Ulrich.

Web links

• Publications from and about Ulrich of Denmark in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Enrollment of Vlricus princeps Holsatiae etc. Rostocker matriculation portal , accessed on July 31, 2018 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} Franz Schildt: The diocese of Schwerin in the Protestant era. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Library, 1884, pp. 172-173 , accessed on July 31, 2018 . 
3. ↑ See the discussion in Schildt (Lit.), p. 174f against Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : Katharine Hahn, wife of Duke Ulrich, Prince of Denmark, administrator of the Diocese of Schwerin. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. 23 (1858), pp. 33-40 full text ( memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
Adolf I.	Administrator of Schleswig 1602–1624	-
Ulrich I.	Administrator of Schwerin 1603–1624	Ulrich III.