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House of Oldenburg

Dynasty

  • Also called Oldenburg, Oldenburg dynasty
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A family
on the record,
reign by reign.

Documented kin

BlasonChristian Ier (1143-1167), comte d'Oldenbourg
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Overview

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Members · 19

The house, member by member

One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.

What this means

People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.

Frederick III of Denmark 1609 CE – 1670 CE

6 children in the house

  1. Christian V of Denmark 1646 CE – 1699 CE 1 child in the house
  2. Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark 1647 CE – 1717 CE
  3. Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark 1649 CE – 1704 CE
  4. Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark 1650 CE – 1706 CE
  5. Prince George, Duke of Cumberland 1653 CE – 1708 CE
  6. Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark 1656 CE – 1693 CE
One family in House of Oldenburg: members whose records name this parent, oldest first. A parent from another house is on the child’s own page. Open the family tree

Every member

People whose own records place them in this house.

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Succession

Offices held in the house

The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.

Monarch of Denmark

  • 7 holders
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 13 April 1523 CE – 10 April 1533 CE Frederick I of Denmark King of Denmark and Norway
  2. 4 July 1534 CE – 1 January 1559 CE Christian III of Denmark king of Denmark and Norway
  3. 1 January 1559 CE – 4 April 1588 CE (Old Style) Frederick II of Denmark King of Denmark and Norway (1534–1588)
  4. 4 April 1588 CE (Old Style) – 28 February 1648 CE (Old Style) Christian IV of Denmark king of Denmark and Norway (1577–1648)
  5. 6 July 1648 CE (Old Style) – 9 February 1670 CE (Old Style) Frederick III of Denmark King of Denmark and Norway from 1648 to 1670
  6. 9 February 1670 CE (Old Style) – 25 August 1699 CE (Old Style) Christian V of Denmark king of Denmark and Norway (1646–1699)
  7. 25 August 1699 CE (Old Style) – 12 October 1730 CE Frederik IV of Denmark king of Denmark and Norway (1699–1730)

Monarch of Norway

  • 7 holders
  • 1 gap
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 1523 CE – 10 April 1533 CE Frederick I of Denmark King of Denmark and Norway

  2. Gap about 4 years before the next in this house

    1537 CE – 1 January 1559 CE Christian III of Denmark king of Denmark and Norway
  3. 1 January 1559 CE – 4 April 1588 CE (Old Style) Frederick II of Denmark King of Denmark and Norway (1534–1588)
  4. 4 April 1588 CE (Old Style) – 28 February 1648 CE (Old Style) Christian IV of Denmark king of Denmark and Norway (1577–1648)
  5. 6 July 1648 CE (Old Style) – 9 February 1670 CE (Old Style) Frederick III of Denmark King of Denmark and Norway from 1648 to 1670
  6. 9 February 1670 CE (Old Style) – 25 August 1699 CE (Old Style) Christian V of Denmark king of Denmark and Norway (1646–1699)
  7. 25 August 1699 CE (Old Style) – 12 October 1730 CE Frederik IV of Denmark king of Denmark and Norway (1699–1730)

Chronology is not a full explanation

Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.

Religious context · a separate claim

Affiliation

Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.

What this means

Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.

Affiliations recorded on members

An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.

Connections

How House of Oldenburg connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Affiliation 4

What this means

Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.

Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Transmission 1

What this means

Teaching passed from one person to another. Not biological ancestry and not automatic institutional succession.

Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

How this site reads its sources

1 statement on this record

  • 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of it cites only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

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Data
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Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

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