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- Christine of Saxony - Wikipedia
Christine of Saxony (25 December 1505 – 15 April 1549) was a...
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- Christine of Saxony - Wikipedia
- Early Life
- Duchess of Milan
- First Widowhood
- Duchess of Lorraine
- Regent of Lorraine
- Exile
- Claimant
- Depictions in Popular Culture
- Sources
Christina was born in Nyborg in central Denmark in 1521 to King Christian II of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway and his wife Isabella of Austria, the third child of Duke Philip of Burgundy and Queen Joanna of Castile. In January 1523, nobles rebelled against her father and offered the throne to his uncle, Duke Frederick of Holstein. Christina and her s...
On 23 September 1533 in Brussels, Christina was married by proxy to Francesco II Sforza, Duke of Milan, through his representative Count Massimiliano Stampa. On 3 May 1534, Christina made her official entry in Milan among great festivities, and on 4 May, the second wedding ceremony was celebrated in the hall of the Rocchetta. Christina's relationsh...
After Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, died in 1537, Christina was considered as a possible bride for the English king. The German painter Hans Holbein was commissioned to paint portraits of noblewomen eligible to become the English queen. On 10 March 1538, Holbein arrived in Brussels with the diplomat Philip Hoby to meet Christina. Hoby...
On 10 July 1541, Christina married Francis, Duke of Bar, in Brussels. Francis had been betrothed to Anne of Cleves, who became the fourth wife of Henry VIII. In August, Christina and Francis reached Pont-à-Mousson, in Lorraine, where they visited the dowager duchess Philippa, and continued to the capital in Nancy escorted by the Guise family. In No...
Francis died on 12 June 1545, leaving Christina as Regent of Lorraine and the guardian of her minor son. His will was contested by a party headed by Count Jean I de Salm (d. 1560), who regarded Christina as a puppet of the emperor, and so wished to place her brother-in-law as her co-regent. Christina, having recently given birth to her third child,...
Christina received marriage proposals from King Henry of Navarre, Adolf of Holstein, the prince of Piedmont, and Albert of Brandenburg. The latter promised to recover the kingdom of her father for her. However, she refused to marry, and focused on negotiations with France to recover the custody of her son. She was present at the abdication of Emper...
In Lorraine, Christina served as adviser to her son, especially in repairing the finances of Lorraine after the war and winning the loyalty of the local nobility, and assisted her daughter-in-law as hostess. In March 1560, she was again appointed regent of Lorraine during the absence of her son and daughter-in-law at the French court. She was prese...
Television
She was portrayed by Sonya Cassidy in an episode of The Tudors.
Literature
1. Helle Stangerup, In the Courts of Power, 1987. 2. Marianne Malone, The Sixty-Eight Rooms, 2010.
In Other Work
She is seen as one of the paintings during the musical number "Haus of Holbein" in the hit musical Six.
(in Danish) Christina of Denmark in Dansk Kvindebiografisk LeksikonJulia Cartwright: Christina of Denmark. Duchess of Milan and Lorraine. 1522–1590, New York, 1913Jansen, Sharon L. (2002). The monstrous regiment of women: female rulers in early modern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-21341-7.Christina of Saxony (25 December 1461 – 8 December 1521), was Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden as the wife of King John. Quick Facts Queen consort of Denmark, Tenure ... Close. Wall sculpture depicting Queen Christina together with her husband King John II and their son Francis. Oops something went wrong:
Christina of Saxony (25 December 1461 – 8 December 1521), was Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden as the wife of King John. Christina was engaged to John, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, in 1477. The year after, she traveled from Saxony to Warnemunde, where she was met by a Danish retinue who brought her Copenhagen Castle, where she was married to John on 6 September 1478. The wedding is ...
Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Christina of Saxony (1461–1521)Queen of Norway and Denmark. Name variations: Christine.
