Christian VI of Denmark

Christian VI (November 30th 1699 - August 6th 1746) was king of Denmark and Norway of 1730 to its death.

Family

Wire of Frederic IV and Louise de Mecklembourg-Gustrow.

Christian VI marries in 1721 Sophie Madeleine de Brandebourg-Kulmbach (1700 - 1790), girl of Christian Henri de Brandebourg-Kulmbach and of the countess Sophie Christine de Wolfstein. From this union were born:

Frederic V, king of Denmark (1723-1766);
Louise (1724-1724);
Louise (1726-1756), married in 1749 Ernest-Frederic III of Saxony-Hildburghausen (1727 - 1780).

Biography

Iil founds in 1735 the obligatory ecclesiastical practice. It begins in 1733 the construction of the first Château of Christiansborg.

It left with the posterity the image of a sovereign very religious and devoted to the Piétisme. It tried to inculcate the pietism on its subjects. This religious pressure, its person lacking charm, did of him one of the monarchs of the absolute monarchy more impoplaire in Denmark. Later, the historians tried to modify this image, they underlined qualities of worker and scupuleux bureaucrat of Christian VI of Denmark. However the bad impression left by the sovereign will perdura with the son of the years.

Its act principal was introduction in 1733 stavnsbånd , law which forced the peasants to remain in the area where they lived and made the farming community prone to the local nobility and the army. The idea behind this law was undoubtedly to secure a constant number country soldiers, but thereafter, she was regarded as an additional stage in the Servage of the Danish peasants. This law caused much wrong to Christian VI of Denmark, it was abolished in 1788.

The pietism influenced the major part of the political life and ecclesiastic de Christian VI of Denmark. After its death the pietism lost its official support. That does not mean that it was without success, it influenced most of the poetry of the time, inter alia the great canticle of the writer Hans Adolphe Brorson. Another durable result of the pietism was the introduction to Denmark of the sacrament of the confirmation in 1736.

Christian VI of Denmark was probalement the largest Danish manufacturer of the XVIIIème century. His wife, Louise de Mecklembourg-Güstrow supported it in her effort. Pami great constructions which one owes in Christian VI of Denmark it was the castle of Christianborg (1734 with 1742), destroyed by a fire in 1794 and rebuilt, the castle of Hirschholm in the north of the Zeeland island, (1737 - 1739), demolished in 1812, the Hermitage (1734 - 1736).

Christian VI of Denmark was a puritan with the simple practices, he had a certain tendency to flee the company. Since its youth, it was of fragile health, several diseases hastened its death.

Death and Burial

Christian VI of Denmark died the August 6th 1746. He was buried in the cathedral of Roskilde.

The neo-classic sarcophagus was ordered by the widow of Christian VI of Denmark, it was conceived and carried out by the sculptor Johannes WIedewelt. This monument was completed in 1768, but was installed in the cathedral of Roskilde in 1777. This monument is composed of a sarcophagus and two statues of women.

Genealogy

Christian VI 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

Christian V of Denmark (paternal grandfather)

Gustave-Adolphe de Mecklembourg-Güstrow (maternal grandfather)

External bonds and sources

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