Christine Holstein-Gottorp (1573 - 1625)

Born 13 Apr 1573 in Kiel, Germany

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Died 8 Dec 1625 at age 52 in Gripsholm Castle, Mariefred, Södermanland, Sweden

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Kristina Holstein-Gottorp was a member of the aristocracy in Europe.

Biography

Christina of Holstein-Gottorpwas a Queen-Consort of Sweden, consort of king Charles IX of Sweden and mother of king Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.

She was a daughter of Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and Christine of Hesse (daughter of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse). On 8 July 1592 she became the second wife of Charles, Duke of Södermanland, who in 1599 became Sweden's regent and in 1604 its king. She was crowned together with her husband in Uppsala cathedral in 1607.

Queen Christina was a dominating and strong willed woman, who had a strong sense of economy. Her marriage was considered happy, though her husband was not faithful to her, as they were very similar in personality. She often accompanied him on his journeys, among them to Estonia and Finland in 1600-1601.

Although she did not dominate her husband, who was just as dominating as she, and did not have any political influence on him, she was highly regarded, respected and feared. She did however, act as regent during her husbands absence in 1605, and she was also known to have prevented her younger son from becoming Russian Czar in 1610-1612 by keeping him at home, and as a widow, she also acted as regent for her younger son, Carl Philip, in the Duchy of Södermanland in 1611-1622. During her son's first years as a king in the 1610s, she was by some considered the real, or one of the real, rulers behind the throne during his minority, though she was not formally regent.

As a dowager queen, she is known for preventing her son from marrying his mistress, Ebba Brahe; during this, she wrote a famous poem on the window of Ebba Brahe, which goes; "This you want, that you shall - that is the way in cases as this."

She is buried in Strängnäs domkyrka (Cathedral of Strängnäs)^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Christina von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf Original name: Christina Kristina of Holstein-Gottorp on Find A Grave: Memorial #15846584 Retrieved 30 sep 2016.

• Wikipedia:Christina_of_Holstein-Gottorp
• Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon #11772

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• This WikiTree profile is referenced from Wikidata: Item Q233496, en:Wikipedia

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Enno Borgsteede for creating WikiTree profile Van Holstein Gottorp-8 through the import of Enno III.ged on Oct 30, 2013.
• Af Holstein Gottorp-1 created through the import of Forsstrom och Eriksson Wikitree.GED on Jul 16, 2011 by Torbjörn Forsström.