Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine
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Dorothea of Denmark and Norway was a Danish, Norwegian and Swedish princess and an electress of the Palatinate as the wife of Elector Frederick II of the Palatinate. She was a claimant to the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish thrones and titular monarch in 1559–1561.
Portrait by Michiel Coxcie, 1545
Portrait of a young girl, possibly of Dorothea Jan Gossaert c.1530
Christian II of Denmark
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Christian II was a Scandinavian monarch under the Kalmar Union who reigned as King of Denmark and Norway, from 1513 until 1523, and Sweden from 1520 until 1521. From 1513 to 1523, he was concurrently Duke of Schleswig and Holstein in joint rule with his uncle Frederick.
Portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1523
Isabella of Austria, Christian's wife.
Christian and Isabella depicted on an altarpiece in Elsinore.
The Stockholm bloodbath depicted in a 1676 engraving by Dionysius Padtbrugge.