John of Denmark (1518–1532)

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John of Denmark
Prince Hans of Denmark.jpg
Portrait by Jan Mabuse, 1526.
BornFebruary 21, 1518
Copenhagen, Denmark
DiedAugust 11, 1532(1532-08-11) (aged 14)
Regensburg, Bavaria
Burial
St. Canute's Cathedral
prev. St. Peter's Abbey, Ghent
HouseOldenburg
FatherChristian II of Denmark
MotherIsabella of Austria
ReligionRoman Catholicism

John of Denmark (Danish: Hans; 21 February 1518 – 11 August 1532) was the eldest child and first of four sons born to the King and Queen of Denmark and Norway, Christian II and Isabella of Austria.

Biography[]

Born in Copenhagen, John was named after his paternal grandfather, King John. When John was one year old, his mother gave birth to twin boys, Philip Ferdinand and Maximilian, who both died within a year. He also had two younger sisters, Dorothea, the future Electress of the Palatinate, and Christina, the future Duchess of Lorraine.[citation needed]

King Christian II was deposed in 1523 by his uncle, who took the throne as King Frederick I. During the years of their exile, John and his family led a relatively humble life in the city of Lierre (now Lier, Flanders, Belgium) in the Duchy of Brabant of the Habsburg Netherlands, waiting for the military help of John's maternal uncle, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.[citation needed]

At the beginning of 1532, John's father went to Oslo in an attempt to persuade the Riksråd (National Council of Norway) to recognize John as the rightful Heir to the Throne and to afterwards crown him as the next King of Norway. Meanwhile, the Emperor took John to Regensburg, then a Free Imperial City in Bavaria. He was undoubtedly meant to play a role in Habsburg politics (as the eldest grandson of Philip the Handsome, though posthumous), but died on 11 August at Charles's house in Regensburg.[citation needed] He was buried in St. Peter's Abbey in Ghent, also in the Habsburg Netherlands, but his remains were exhumed and transported to St. Canute's Cathedral in Odense, Denmark, in 1883.[1] He is portrayed as gifted and intelligent, capable of running a country.[2]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Bricka (1887), p. 567.
  2. ^ Bricka (1887), p. 566.

References[]

  • Bricka, Carl Frederik, ed. (1887). Dansk biografisk leksikon (in Danish). Vol. VI. (Gerson - H. Hansen) (1st ed.). Copenhagen: Gyldendal. |volume= has extra text (help)

External links[]

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