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CHRISTIAN V

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 278 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHRISTIAN V  . (1646-1699), See also:king of See also:Denmark and See also:Norway, the son of See also:Frederick III. of Denmark and See also:Sophia Amelia of See also:Brunswick-See also:Luneburg, was See also:born on the '15th of See also:April '646 at Flensberg, and ascended the See also:throne on the 9th of See also:February '670 . He was a weak See also:despot with an exaggerated See also:opinion of his dignity and his prerogatives . Almost his first See also:act on ascending the throne was publicly to insult his See also:consort, the amiable See also:Charlotte Amelia of See also:Hesse-See also:Cassel, by introducing into See also:court, as his officially recognized See also:mistress, Amelia See also:Moth, a girl of sixteen, the daughter of his former See also:tutor, whom he made countess of Samso . His See also:personal courage and extreme affability made him highly popular among the See also:lower orders, but he showed himself quite incapable of taking See also:advantage permanently of the revival of. the See also:national See also:energy, and the extraordinary overflow of native See also:middle-class See also:talent, which were the immediate consequences of the revolution of 166o . Under the guidance of his See also:great See also:chancellor See also:Griffenfeldt, Denmark seemed for a brief See also:period to have a See also:chance of regaining her former position as a great See also:power . But in sacrificing Griffenfeldt to the clamour of his adversaries, See also:Christian did serious injury to the See also:monarchy . He frittered away the resources of the See also:kingdom in the unremunerative See also:Swedish See also:war of 1675–79, and did nothing for See also:internal progress in the twenty years of See also:peace which followed . He died in a See also:hunting See also:accident on the 25th of See also:August 1699 . See See also:Peter Edvard Holm, Danmarks See also:indre Historie under Enevaelden (See also:Copenhagen, 1881–1886); Adolf Ditleva . Jorgensen, Peter Griffenfeldt (Copenhagen, 1893); See also:Robert Nisbet See also:Bain, Scandinavia cap. x., xi . (See also:Cambridge, 1905) .

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