Frederic VI of Denmark

Frederic VI of Denmark (January 28th 1768 - December 3rd 1839) was King Denmark and of Norway of the March 13rd 1808 until its death.

Family

Wire of Christian VII and Caroline Mathilde of England.

Marriage and descent

In 1790, it marries Marie Sophie de Hesse-Cassel (1767 - 1852) (girl of the landgrave Charles de Hesse-Cassel), who gives him eight children, of which six die in low age:

• Christian (1791 - 1791);
• Marie Louise (1793 - 1793);
• Caroline (1793 - 1881), married in 1881 of Frederic Ferdinand of Denmark (1792 - 1863), grandson of Frederic V of Denmark);
• Louise (1795 - 1795);
• Christian (1797 - 1797);
• Louise Julian (1802 - 1802)) ;
• Frederique Marie (1805 - 1815)) ;
• Wilhelmine Marie (1808 - 1891), in 1812, it époua Frederic VII of Denmark (divorced in 1837) In 1838 it married the duke Charles de Schleswig-Holstein-Glücksbourg (1813 - 1878) -.

Frederic VI also had several illegitimate children

• Frederic de Dannermand (1813-1888) wife 1°) Franziska Von Scholten, 2°) Louisa Schulin

• Waldemar or Valdemar (1819-1835);
• Louisa (1810-1888), wife of Wilhelm Zon Zacharia;
• Karoline (1812-1844), wife of Schack Von Brockdorff.

Biography

Regency

He was regent of Denmark of 1784 at 1808. He ensured this regency to compensate for his father who suffered from mental derangement. During the regency, with the assistance of sound Prime Minister Peter Andreas Bernstorff, Frederic VI of Denmark engaged of the liberal reforms of which the abolition of serfdom in 1788 and the forced residence.

Reign of Frederic VI of Denmark

During his reign, Frederic VI of Denmark had to face many crises, in particular with the Great Britain. By twice Denmark had to undergo the attacks of the English, in 1801 and 1807. the April 2nd 1801 took place the battles naval of Copenhagen which saw the victory of Horatio Nelson over the Danes.

In 1809, with the death of Gustave IV Adolphe of Sweden the Swedish throne was vacant. Frederic VI of Denmark was presented in the form of a candidate to the succession. Indeed, Frederic VI of Denmark was the first monarch of the Denmark and from Norway to be gone down from Gustave Ier of Sweden, this one had obtained independence Sweden in (1523) after the time of the union between the Scandinavian countries. Frederic VI of Denmark went down from Gustave Ier by his mother Juliane Maria of Brunswick-Lunebourg. But in 1818, the marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte was elected king de Suède.

At the time of the Napoleonean wars Frederic VI of Danemar Napoleonean France was allied . After the defeat of Napoleon i in 1814 that cost him part of its kingdom in 1814: by the Treated of Kiel, it made constrained yield the Norwegian territory , except the Greenland, with the Sweden. Frederic VI of Denmark gave up his liberal ideas of the time of regency and controlled in an authoritative way and reactionary his kingdom. The censure and the repression of any opposition, a bad condition of the Danish economy obscured this period of its reign, in spite of the maintenance on behalf of Frederic VI of Denmark of his position of " patriarche". In 1830, the economic depression moved away and in 1834, Frederic VI of Denmark accepted with reserve a small democratic innovation by the installation of the assemblies of succession (purely advisory regional assemblies).

Frederic VI of Denmark was known for his passion for astronomy. In 1832, it offered in price gold medals to any person who would discover a comet using a telescope. This price disappeared at the following day from the first war from Schleswig (1848 - 1851).

In 1835, was discovered in a peat bog of Jutland the body of a woman (Haraldskaer). Frederic VI of Denmark ordered a royal burial. The body was deposited in a sarcophagus thoroughly carved, the body contained in the sarcophagus was deposited in the Saint Nicolas's Day church with Vejle. Frederic VI of Denmark issued that it was about Gunhild (the mother of the Norwegians). This erroneous identity was revealed, but the history was adapted to the political situation of the time.

Genealogy

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

Internal bonds

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