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Hace 4 días · Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp. Mother. Christine of Hesse. Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (13 April 1573 in Kiel – 8 December 1625 at Gripsholm Castle) was Queen of Sweden as the second wife of King Charles IX. She served as regent in 1605, during the absence of her spouse, and in 1611, during the minority of her son, King Gustav II Adolph .
- Holstein-Gottorp
- Charles IX of Sweden, (m. 1592; died 1611)
18 de abr. de 2024 · Christina was the daughter and sole heir of Gustavus Adolphus and Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg. Her father, who reigned as the king of Sweden from 1611 to 1632, laid the foundations of the modern Swedish state and made it a major European power.
- Ruth Stephan
- Christina became queen-elect of Sweden at age six upon the death of her father, King Gustavus Adolphus, in 1632. She was instructed in politics by...
- Lutheranism was Sweden’s official state religion, and Christina’s secret conversion to Roman Catholicism may be one of the reasons that she abdicat...
- One of the wittiest, most-learned women of her age, Christina is remembered for her lavish sponsorship of the arts and influence on European cultur...
She was the only surviving legitimate child of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and his wife Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg. As the heiress presumptive, at the age of six she succeeded her father on the throne of Sweden upon his death at the Battle of Lützen in the Thirty Years' War.
Hace 2 días · Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (2 children) 9 December 1594 – 6 November 1632 (aged 37)
Hace 6 días · Wanting a son isn’t strange for a monarch, but it was extremely serious for Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg. It was reported that she went mad after she had a girl, even though the king was ecstatic.
Hace 3 días · Frisian Line. Prussian Line. The House of Schwarzenberg is a German ( Franconian) and Czech ( Bohemian) aristocratic family, formerly one of the most prominent European noble houses. The Schwarzenbergs are members of the German and Czech nobility, and they once held the rank of Princes of the Holy Roman Empire.
13 de abr. de 2024 · This chapter considers the role of female dwarfs in noblewomen's entourages by focusing on Maria, a dwarf attendant in the retinue of Eleonora di Toledo (1522–1562) at the Medici court in Florence. The discussion explores both the potential symbolic functions of female dwarf figures in artworks and the archival evidence regarding female dwarfs’ individual activities within the court.
