Christian VII of Denmark

Christian VII (January 29th 1749 - March 13rd 1808) was king of Denmark and Norway of 1766 until its death.

Wire of Frederic V of Denmark and Louise of Great Britain.

He seems to have had a great intelligence and unquestionable talents, but its education, carried out by a brutal governor, made it sink in the madness, perhaps a form of Schizophrénie, and discharges it. After its accession with the throne, the January 14th 1766, and its marriage with Caroline-Mathilde, sister of George III of England, it was given up at worst excesses, ending up sinking in a total mental stupor, with crises of Paranoïa, Automutilation and Hallucinations.

Christian VII was then dominated little by little by his doctor, Johann Friedrich Struensee, which became the lover of the queen and the true Master of the country, it until in 1772. This year, pushed by his paternal grandmother, Sophie Madeleine de Brandebourg-Kulmbach, the king makes dissolve his marriage and stop, then to carry out, Struensee.

Christian VII and Caroline-Mathilde had had two children, the future Frederic VI (1768-1839) and the princess Louise Auguste, (1771-1843), who seems to have been actually the girl of Struensee.

As from 1772, Christian was nothing any more but nominally king of Denmark. Until 1784, the country was controlled by Juliane Marie of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, the mother-in-law of the king, his handicapped half-brother Frederic, hereditary prince of Denmark and the politician Ove Høegh-Guldberg. As from 1784, the son of Christian, Frederic VI, reign as prince regent. Its regency is marked by agrarian liberal reforms and, but also by the disastrous beginnings of the Napoleonean Guerres.

Christian VII dies in Rendsbourg, in the Schleswig, in 1808, of a cerebral aneurism.

Genealogy

Christian VII of Denmark belongs to the first branch of the Maison of Oldenbourg. This line gave kings to the Norway, the Sweden, the Denmark, it died out in 1863 with the death of Frederic VII of Denmark.

Internal bonds

  • Georges II of Great Britain (Maternal grandfather)

Sources

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