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Duke Magnus of Holstein

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Duke Magnus of Holstein (26 August 1540 – 18 March 1583) was a Prince of Denmark, the son of King Christian III of Denmark and Queen Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, brother of Frederick II of Denmark. Magnus was born in Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen to the House of Oldenburg.

During the Livonian war on June 10 1570 Duke Magnus of Holstein arrived in Moscow where he was crowned as King of Livonia by Ivan IV. Magnus took the oath of allegiance to Ivan as his overlord and received from the corresponding charter for the vassal kingdom of Livonia in what Ivan termed his patrimony. The treaty between Magnus and Ivan IV was signed by an oprichnik and by a member of the zemskii administration, the diak V. Shchelkalov.The territories of the new kingdom still had to be conquered. The new king Magnus of Livonia left Moscow with 20000 Russian soldiers on the conquest of Swedish controlled Reval. Ivan’s hope of the support of Frederick II of Denmark, the older brother of Magnus, failed. By the end of March 1571 Magnus gave up the struggle for Reval and abandoned the siege.[1]

In 1577 having lost Ivan’s favor and getting no support from his brother, Magnus called on the Livonian nobility to rally to him in a struggle against foreign occupation. He was attacked by Ivan’s forces and taken prisoner. On his release he renounced his royal title. [2] Magnus spent the last six years of his life at the castle of Pliten in Courland where he died as a pensioner of the Polish crown.[3]

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  1. ^ Ivan the Terrible By Isabel De Madariaga ISBN 0300119739
  2. ^ War and Peace in the Baltic, 1560-1790 By Stewart Philip Oakley ISBN 0415024722
  3. ^ Frederik II and the Protestant Cause: Denmark's Role in the Wars of Religion By Paul Douglas Lockhart Page 38 Page 39

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Magnus's ancestors in three generations Duke Magnus of Holstein Father:
Christian III of DenmarkPaternal Grandfather:
Frederick I of DenmarkPaternal Great-grandfather:
Christian I of DenmarkPaternal Great-grandmother:
Dorothea of BrandenburgPaternal Grandmother:
Anna of BrandenburgPaternal Great-grandfather:
John Cicero, Elector of BrandenburgPaternal Great-grandmother:
Margaret of ThuringiaMother:
Dorothea of Saxe-LauenburgMaternal Grandfather:
Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-LauenburgMaternal Great-grandfather:
John V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg Maternal Great-grandmother:
Dorothea of BrandenburgMaternal Grandmother:
Catherine Maternal Great-grandfather:
Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-LüneburgMaternal Great-grandmother:
Catherine of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
Preceded by
Christian III of DenmarkDuke ofSchleswig, Holstein, Stormarn, Dithmarschen, Lauenburg& Oldenburg
1559Succeeded by
Frederick II of DenmarkPreceded by
Johann V von Münchhausen Bishop of Ösel-Wiek
1560– 1572Succeeded by
DenmarkPreceded by
Johann IV von Münchhausen Bishop of Courland
1560– 1583Succeeded by
Denmark-Polish-Lithuanian CommonwealthPreceded by
Commonwealth of Both Nationsnominated King of Livonia by Ivan IV
1570– 1578Succeeded by
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
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