Christian, Prince-Elect of Denmark

Christian of Denmark ( born April 10, 1603 Copenhagen, † June 2, 1647 in Gorbitz near Dresden ) was the son of King Christian IV of Denmark and his wife Anna Catherine of Brandenburg Crown Prince of Denmark and Norway, but died before his father.

Life

Christian was in 1608 appointed by the Imperial Council heir to the throne in Denmark. He received an excellent education and led the regency when his father in 1626, Germany led an army. He got into this time because of its relation to the socially unacceptable nobles Anne Lykke and his dissolute way of life in opposition to his father and soon became de facto excluded from the government. In 1634 he married Magdalena Sibylle, daughter of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony. The wedding was celebrated pompously with the participation of delegates of all European royal houses, to demonstrate that Denmark - Norway, despite its unsuccessful participation in the Thirty Years' War, still represented a major European power.

His marriage remained childless. As a result of his pernicious lifestyle ill and the prince died while yet a cure to his father's lifetime and therefore never took the throne. He was a great collector of antiques and art objects.