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Frederick IV ( Danish: ''Frederik''; 11 October 1671 – 12 October 1730) was
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and
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from 1699 until his death. Frederick was the son of
Christian V Christian V (15 April 1646 – 25 August 1699) was King of Denmark and Norway from 1670 until his death in 1699. Well-regarded by the common people, he was the first king anointed at Frederiksborg Castle chapel as absolute monarch since the de ...
of Denmark-Norway and his wife
Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (27 April 1650 – 27 March 1714) was Queen of Denmark and Norway by marriage to King Christian V. Although she did not have much political influence, she was a successful businesswoman in her many estates and p ...
.


Early life

Frederick was born on 11 October 1671 at
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as the eldest son of King
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and his spouse
Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (27 April 1650 – 27 March 1714) was Queen of Denmark and Norway by marriage to King Christian V. Although she did not have much political influence, she was a successful businesswoman in her many estates and p ...
. His grandfather King Frederick III had died a year and a half before he was born, and as the eldest son of the ruling King he was thus
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from birth. The newborn prince was baptised the same evening with the name Frederick by the royal confessor Hans Leth. The royal baptismal font, which has been used for the baptism of the royal children in Denmark ever since, was used for the first time at his christening. At the age of 18, he was given a seat on the
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as the
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to the throne. As Crown Prince, Frederick broadened his education by travelling in Europe, led by his chamberlain Ditlev Wibe. He was particularly impressed by the architecture in
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and, on his return to Denmark, asked his father for permission to build a summer palace on
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, as the hill in
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was then known, the future site of
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.Frederiksberg Slots historie
. In Danish. Retrieved 9 January 2010.
The one-storey building, probably designed by
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, was completed in 1703. Frederick was allowed to choose his future wife from a number of Protestant royal daughters in northern Germany. In 1695, he visited the court of
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in
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. But his visit there was cut short by a message telling of his brother Prince Christian's serious illness (he had, in fact, already died in
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). Frederick later returned to
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, where he was forced to choose the eldest of the unmarried princesses. On 5 December 1695 at Copenhagen Castle, he married
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, herself a great-great-granddaughter of
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. At the death of Christian V on 25 August 1699, the couple became King and Queen of Denmark-Norway. They were crowned on 15 April 1700 in the chapel of
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.


Reign


Domestic rule

Frederick's most important
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reform was the abolition in 1702 of the so-called ''
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'', a kind of
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which had applied to the peasants of
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since the
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. His efforts were largely in vain because of the introduction in 1733 of adscription (''
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''), a law that forced peasants to remain in their home regions, by which the peasantry were subjected to both the local nobility and the army. After the
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, trade and culture flowered. The first Danish theatre,
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, was created and the great dramatist
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(1684–1754) began his career. He established the College of Missions which funded the missionary
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(1686–1758) in taking forward the colonisation of
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. Politically this period was marked by the King's connection to the
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s, the
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er relatives of his second queen, and by his growing suspicion of the old nobility. During Frederick's rule
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was struck by two disasters: the plague of 1711, and the great fire of October 1728, which destroyed most of the
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capital. The King had been persuaded by astronomer
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(1644–1710) to introduce the
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in Denmark-Norway in 1700, but the
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's observations and calculations were among the treasures lost to the fire. Frederik IV, having twice visited Italy, had two pleasure palaces built in the Italian
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style:
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was extended during his reign, when it was converted into a three-storey H-shaped building, completed in 1709 by Johan Conrad Ernst, giving the palace a true Italian baroque appearance and
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, both considered monuments to the conclusion of the Great Northern War.


Venetian journey

Frederick IV holds a memorable place in the social history of the city of
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due to a remarkable visit he made during the winter of 1708–09. The King stayed in the city with an entourage of at least 80 people, formally incognito under the title "Count of Oldenburg." This disguise was not meant to conceal his identity, but rather to avoid the cumbersome and costly etiquette required for a royal visit. During his nine-week stay, Frederick IV became a familiar figure in Venice. He was a frequent guest at operas and comedies, indulging in the city's vibrant cultural scene. The King was also a generous buyer of
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, which was highly prized at the time. His visit to the state arsenal of Venice was marked by a prestigious gift from the republic: two large bronze cannons and a bronze mortar. One of the highlights of his stay was a grand
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on the Grand Canal held in his honour, which was immortalized in a painting by
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. In the painting, Frederick IV is depicted in a gondola with eight rowers, accompanied by a cavalier, enjoying the spectacle. This event is celebrated as a key moment in the King's visit. The winter of 1708–09 was unusually cold, so much so that the
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surrounding Venice froze over. Venetians were able to walk from the city to the mainland, and it became a popular joke that the King of Denmark had brought the cold weather with him. Frederick IV's time in Italy was not confined to Venice. He also made a visit to the dowager grand-princess Violante Beatrice at the grand-ducal court of the
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family in Florence, further cementing his ties with the European nobility. Upon his return journey, Frederick IV conducted political negotiations with
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, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, as well as with
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, regarding the impending war against Sweden. His visit to Venice thus not only contributed to his cultural experience but also had significant political implications. Much of the King's life was spent in strife with kinsmen. Two of his first cousins,
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and
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(the three men were the grandsons of
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), had waged war upon his father jointly. Initially defeated by the Swedes and forced to recognise the independence of Holstein-Gottorp, Frederick finally drove the next duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Duke Charles Frederick (who was Frederick IV's first cousin once removed) out of Schleswig in 1713, and avoided the revenge contemplated by Charles Frederick's mother-in-law,
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.


Personal life

Frederick was deemed a man of responsibility and industry — often regarded as the most intelligent of Denmark-Norway's absolute monarchs. He seems to have mastered the art of remaining independent of his ministers. Lacking all interest in academic knowledge, he was nevertheless a patron of culture, especially art and architecture. His main weaknesses were probably pleasure-seeking and womanising, which sometimes distracted him. He was the penultimate Danish king to make a
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(the last was Frederick VII with Louise Rasmussen aka "Countess Danner"). Without divorcing Queen Louise, in 1703 he married
Elisabeth Helene von Vieregg Elisabeth Helene von Vieregg (4 May 1679 – 27 June 1704), Countess of Antvorskov, was Danish noble and lady-in-waiting of German origin. She was the royal mistress of King Frederick IV of Denmark and, later, his first morganatic wife by biga ...
(d.1704). After the death of Elisabeth, he entered into a romance with her lady-in-waiting Charlotte Helene von Schindel, though he later lost interest in her. In 1711, Frederick fell in love with 19-year-old Countess
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, daughter of the then Grand-Chancellor Conrad von Reventlow. He carried her off from her home, Clausholm Castle near
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at
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, where the royal family resided during the plague that devastated Copenhagen. A secret marriage was held at
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on 26 June 1712. At that time he accorded her the title "Duchess of Schleswig" (derived from one of his own subsidiary titles). Three weeks after Queen Louise's death in Copenhagen on 4 April 1721, he legalised his relationship with Anna Sophie by a new marriage, this time declaring her
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(the first wife of a hereditary Danish king to bear that title who was not of royal blood by birth). It was undoubtedly a relief to regularise a relationship they both saw as sinful. Of the nine children born to him of these three wives, only two of them survived to adulthood: the future
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and Princess Charlotte-Amalia, both from the first marriage. All the other children died in infancy. The Reventlows took advantage of their kinship to the King. Anna's sister, the salonist Countess Christine Sophie Holstein of Holsteinborg, was nicknamed ''Madame Chancellor'' because of her influence. Within a year of making Anna Queen, Frederick also recognized as dynastic the issue of the morganatic marriages of two of her kinsmen, Duke Philip Ernest of Schleswig-Holstein-Glucksburg (1673–1729) and Duke Christian Charles of Schleswig-Holstein-Plön-Norburg (1674–1706), to non-royal nobles. The other Schleswig-Holstein dukes of the
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perceived their interests to be injured, and Frederick found himself embroiled in complicated lawsuits and petitions to the
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. Also offended by the Countess's elevation were Frederick's younger unmarried siblings, Princess Sophia Hedwig (1677–1735) and Prince Charles (1680–1729), who withdrew from Copenhagen to their own rival court at the handsomely re-modelled Vemmetofte Cloister (later a haven for dowerless damsels of the nobility).


Later life

During the King's last years he had
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(oedema), and was also affected by the consequences of an accident in an explosion in a cannon foundry in Copenhagen. He also had private sorrows that inclined him toward
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, a form of faith that would rise to prevalence during the reign of his son. During his last years, Frederick IV asked for the loyalty of his son in order to protect Queen Anna Sophie. Despite the growing weakness, he set in 1730 on a muster travel; he reached
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but had to return, and died in Odense, on the day after his 59th birthday. He was buried in
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, the site of the mausoleum of Danish royalty.


Issue

With his first queen, Duchess
Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (28 August 1667 – 15 March 1721) was List of Danish consorts, Queen of Denmark and List of Norwegian consorts, Norway as the first wife of King Frederick IV of Denmark. In 1708–09, she was regent during her husban ...
: *Prince Christian (28 June 1697 - 1 October 1698) died in infancy *King
Christian VI of Denmark Christian VI (30 November 1699 – 6 August 1746) was King of Denmark and Norway from 1730 to 1746. The eldest surviving son of Frederick IV of Denmark, Frederick IV and Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, he is considered one of Denmark-Norway's m ...
(10 December 1699 - 6 August 1746) *Prince Frederik Charles (23 October 1701 - 7 January 1702) died in infancy *Prince George (6 January 1703 – 12 March 1704) died in infancy *Princess Charlotte Amalie (6 October 1706 – 28 October 1782) With his second wife
Elisabeth Helene von Vieregg Elisabeth Helene von Vieregg (4 May 1679 – 27 June 1704), Countess of Antvorskov, was Danish noble and lady-in-waiting of German origin. She was the royal mistress of King Frederick IV of Denmark and, later, his first morganatic wife by biga ...
: *Frederik Gyldenløve (1704–1705) With his third wife and second queen, Countess Anne Sophie von Reventlow: *Princess Christiana Amalia (23 October 1723 - 7 January 1724) died in infancy *Prince Frederik Christian (1 June 1726 - 15 May 1727) died in infancy *Prince Charles (16 February 1728 - 10 December 1729) died in infancy


Ancestry


References


External links


The Royal Lineage
at the website of the
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Frederik IV
at the website of the Royal Danish Collection at
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