NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Hereditary Prince Frederick of Denmark and Norway

The surviving son of the second marriage of King Frederick V of Denmark with Juliane Marie of Brunswick Statue of Frederick V in the center of Amalienborg Frederick V (March 31, 1723 - January 13, 1766) was king of Denmark and Norway from 1746, son of Christian VI of Denmark and Sophie Magdelena, Markgravin of Brandenburg-Kalmbach-Bayreuth. ...

His half-brother King Christian VII of Denmark having gone insane, and divorced from his wife (then exiled) Queen Caroline Mathilde, Prince Frederick was designated as Regent of Denmark. Christian VII (January 29, 1749_ March 13, 1808), King of Denmark and Norway, Duke of Schleswig and Holstein. ...

As such acted until the coup of 1784, when Crown Prince Frederick, the then 18-year-old son of King Christian, took power and regency.

Prince Frederick had following surviving children:

Hereditary Prince Christian Frederick (1786-1848), 1814-1814 King of Norway and later, 1839-49 King of Denmark (Christian VIII). He had an only child, the future Frederick VII of Denmark (d 1863) with whom the line went extinct.
Hereditary Prince Frederik Ferdinand of Denmark (1792-1863), childless
Juliana Sophie (1788-1850), Princess Juliane of Denmark, m Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
Louise Charlotte (1789-1864), Princess Charlotte of Denmark, married Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel.

Christian VIII (September 18, 1786–January 20, 1848), king of Denmark 1839-48 and of Norway 1814-14, the eldest son of the hereditary prince Frederick of Denmark and Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, was born in 1786 at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen. ... Frederick VII (October 6, 1808 - November 15, 1863) was the last king of Denmark to rule as an absolute monarch. ...

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	The population of Denmark in 1901 was 2,449,540.
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	Frederick II., in his later years (1571-1588), aspired to the dominion of all the seas which washed the Scandinavian coasts, and before he died he was able to enforce the rule that all foreign ships should strike their topsails to Danish men-of-war as a token of his right to rule the northern seas.

Christian VIII of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (817 words)
	Christian VIII (September 18, 1786–January 20, 1848), king of Denmark 1839-48 and of Norway 1814, the eldest son of the Hereditary Prince Frederick of Denmark and Norway and Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, was born in 1786 at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen.
	He was elected Regent of Norway by an assembly of notables on February 16, 1814.
	Seeing that his only son, the future Frederick VII, was apparently unable to beget heirs, he commenced arrangements to secure the succession in Denmark, which lead to the future Christian IX to be chosen as a hereditary prince, officially by a new law enacted on 31 July 1853, after an international treaty made in London.

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