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A50828 The present state of Denmark. By Guy Miege, author of the New cosmography, or survey of the whole world. Miege, Guy, 1644-1718? 1683 (1683) Wing M2024; ESTC R214182 71,445 167

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improved the University of Copenhagen and was a great Admirer of the Learned but especially of Tycho Brahe Sophia his Queen was Daughter of Ulric Duke of Mecklemburg He got by her three Sons and four Daughters His eldest Son Christiern succeeded him but Ulric and John died young and without Issue His eldest Daughter Elizabeth was second Wise to Henry-Julius Duke of Brunswick Ann was given in Marriage to James King of Great Brittain Hedwige to Christiern the Second Elector of Saxony and Augusta to John Adolph Duke of Holstein Christiern IV Son of Frederick the Second Brother of Ann Queen of Great Brittain and Knight of the Garter succeeded his Father at the Age of twelve Years Four Counsellors were appointed to be Regents during his Minority and he was not crowned till the year 1596. In the Month of July Anno 1606 he came over into England to visit the King and Queen He had been long expected when at last News were brought to Court that he was come with eight Ships into the River of Thames and that he anchored before Gravesend This hapned on the seventeenth of July and the next day King James with Prince Henry and divers of the Lords went by Barge to meet this Royal Guest and bring him up to London Where he stayed about four Weeks being entertained all that while with all the Magnificence that could be imagined Both Kings did ride in great state through the City there being Pageants erected in many Places He was shewed the chief Places about the Town as the Royal Exchange the Tower the Monuments at Westminster and that he might have a full Prospect of the City and Suburbs he went to the top of Pauls No manner of Pastime was omitted to divert so welcome a Guest and the Earl of Salisbury feasted him at Theobalds four days together At last on the twelfth of August being conducted by the King the Queen and Prince with many other great Lords he departed to his Ships and arrived in eight days at home In July 1614. he came the second time into England but Incognito and with a small Company The Queen was surprised to see him arrived at Somerset House before she knew any thing of his Coming King James was then in Progress in Bedfordshire who heard no sooner of it but he came back He admired his Frankness as well as his Affection and thanked him heartily for both In return whereof he regalled him with all the possible Marks of Kindness and Gratitude And King Christiern returned Aug. 1 extreamly satisfy'd with his Entertainment A rare thing to see Princes converse together with so much Freedom and not kept asunder with Jealousies of State Anno 1610. King Christiern made War against Sweden In the year 1625. the Protestants of Germany made him Head of the League against the Emperour Ferdinand the Second for the Restauration of Count Palatine of the Rhine to his Estates But he was suddenly beat out of all Jutland by the prevailing Imperialists till he compounded the Business upon very good Terms and was restored to all his own Afterwards he turned his Arms against the Swedes in the year 1644 who got several Places from him but the Peace put a stop to their Conquests He reigned sixty years and died at 70 years of age Ann Catharine his Queen was Daughter of Joachim Frederick Elector of Brandenburg He got by her amongst other Children Christiern and Frederick Christiern was chosen King of Denmark in his Fathers life-time He was a very hopeful Prince but unhealthy so that he died before his Royal Father going to drink some Waters in Saxony His Death made room for Frederick III second Son of Christiern the Fourth He was Archbishop of Bremen in Saxony before he came to the Crown upon the Death of his Royal Father and not long after the decease of Christiern his elder Brother who as I said before was King elect This is that magnanimous Prince who by his invincible Constancy has not long since redeemed this Crown from the hands of the Swedes This is that Frederick whose late Calamities served only to set off the greatness of his Courage And as if the same Rules of Providence were appointed for the Royal Families of England and Denmark whilst King Frederick was struggling for his Crown with the Swedes the late Usurpers here kept the Crown from King Charles And as it was their fortune to suffer both together so they had the Comfort to be both the same Year restored to their Dominions 'T is true King Frederick was fain to part with some of the best Jewels of his Crown But that Loss whatever it is is not Irrecoverable and has already been sufficiently made up on the part of his Subjects by their deep sense of Gratitude in making his Crown Hereditary which formerly was but Elective On the 18th of October 1643 some years before he came to the Crown he married with the Lady Sophia Aemilia of Luneburg by whom he got 1. Christiern V now King of Denmark a Prince of a warlike and generous Temper He was born Apr. 18. 1646 and has got Issue by Queen Charlotte his Royal Consort a Princess of the most Ancient and Illustrious House of Hassia Cassel in Germany 2. Prince George born in the year 1653. Whose Royal Birth and Princely Qualifications as well as other Regards have made him in our King's Judgment a proper Match for the Lady Ann. The Solemnity of which Marriage is at hand 3. Anna Sophia married to John George Elector of Saxony 4. Frederica Aemilia married in the Year 1667. to Christiern Albert Duke of Holstein Gottorp 5. Guilliemetta-Ernestina married in the Year 1671. to Count Palatine of the Rhine 6. Vlrica-Eleonora-Sabina married to the present King of Sweden Charles XI The Titles of the King of Denmark run thus Christiern the Fifth by the Grace of God King of Denmark and Norway of the Vandals and Goths Duke of Sleswick Holstein Stormaren and Dithmarsen Count of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst c. His Arms are Quarterly 1. Or three Lions passant Vert crowned of the first for the Kingdom of Denmark 2. Gules a Lion rampant Or crowned and armed of the first in his paws a Dansk Hatchet Argent for the Kingdom of Norway What Arms belong to him as Duke of Holstein and Sleswick and Earl of Oldenburg I am as yet to seek Lastly to omit nothing that may be essential to this our present Subject I must give some Account of the Dukes of Holstein as being of the Blood-Royal of Denmark and accordingly holding several Estates of that Crown in Holstein The House of Holstein is generally divided into three principal Branches The King of Denmark is the Head of the first Branch and the standing Protector of the Princes of the House of Holstein The other two Branches are that of Holstein Gottorp and that of Holstein Sunderburg The Branch of Holstein Gottorp so called from Gottorp a Castle near Sleswick in Holstein began with Adolph
second Son of Frederick I. and Brother of Christiern III. Kings of Denmark He came into the World Anno 1526 was made Knight of the Garter by Queen Elizabeth Anno 1560 and dying in the year 1586 left his Estate to John Adolph his Son who married with Augusta Daughter of Frederick II. King of Denmark and died in the year 1620. He left his Estate and Title to his Son Frederick born in Dec. Anno 1597. This is that Duke of Holstein who in the year 1633 sent those two chargeable Embassies to Moscovy and Persia whereof Olearius has made an ample Relation The end of which Embassies was to settle a Commerce of Silk in his Dominions in order to which he caused Frederickstad on the Eyder to be built He died in the year 1659 leaving his Estate to his Son Christiern Albert the present Duke of Holstein Gottorp born in Febr. 1641. Marry'd as I said before to Frederica-Aemilia one of the King of Denmark's Sisters To the Duke of Holstein Gottorp there 's but one collateral Branch viz. of Ottin or Ottingen Which begun with John of Ottin younger Brother to Frederick Duke of Holstein Gottorp born March 19th Anno 1606. He was Administrator of the Bishoprick of Lubeck and an eminent Scholar He died Febr. 18. 1655 and left a Son called John Augustus born August 3. in the Year 1647. The Branch of Holstein Sunderburg so called from Sunderburg a Castle in the Isle of Alsen near the East-Coast of Sleswick began with John second Son of Christiern III. King of Denmark born March 25th Anno 1545. He died Nov. 9th 1621 and left four Sons who made so many Branches Alexander his eldest Son Duke of Holstein Sunderburg was born Anno 1573 and died March 13. in the year 1627. His next Heir and Successor was his Son John Christiern born April 26. 1607. Who dying Anno 1653 or 54 left his Title and Estate to his Son Christiern Adolph the present Duke of Holstein Sunderburg The three younger Branches are 1. Of Holstein Norburg 2. of Holstein Gluksburg 3. of Holstein Ploen or Arnsberg Thus I have unravelled the Pedigree of the Dukes of Holstein who are now increased to a great number and some of them of no great Fortunes The Duke of Holstein Gottorp is the most considerable and yet he was much greater before he lost the King of Denmark his Brother-in-Law's favour by ingaging too far with Sweden to the prejudice of his Blood Whereby he lost to the King his Rights of Sovereignty over the Dukedom of Sleswick and has little or nothing left there besides his Castle of Gottorp Which Rights were formerly extorted from the late King Frederick by the Roschild Treaty In Holstein his Subjects are set under Contribution whilst his Highness resides at Hamburg his Place of Refuge where he has in vain protested against the King's Proceedings This Prince has a Brother Augustus Frederick born Anno 1646. Of the Nobility Clergy and Commonalty of Denmark in relation to Government As also of the chief Order of Knighthood called of the Elephant IN all Governments the Inhabitants are distinguished and divided into several Orders and Degrees commonly called States In England we have but King Lords and Commons But in Denmark they reckon five Orders or States viz. the Blood-Royal the Nobility or Gentry the Clergy Burgesses or Merchants and Countrey-men In our fore-going Discourse we have spoke at large of the Blood-Royal I come now to the next Order which is the Nobility A Bridle to Kings in all Elective Kingdoms but on the contrary a Support of Crowns Hereditary Before the Crown of Denmark was made Hereditary there was no Titular Lords But he only was counted a Noble-man that could shew his Nobility by a long Descent They bore their Arms simple and thought it a disgrace to change or add to them Here is still the Noble Family of the Wrens whose Ancestors were present at the Treaty made on the River Eyder between Charles the Great and Hening King of Denmark which is almost 900 years since As also that of the Whitfelds of which the English Whitfields are an Off-spring who bear the same Arms with the Whitfelds in Denmark and whose Ancestors came over with King Canute To proceed the Nobility or Gentry of Denmark for 't is the same thing there injoy their Estates with high and low Jurisdiction and have as the German Counts the liberty of Hunting hair with hair and feather with feather Their Patrimonial Estates are not held in fief but in free tenure All Castles Lands and Goods as well moveable as immoveable left to them by their Parents are equally divided amongst the Brothers In case of Sisters the Brother has two shares and the Sister but one The Mansion Houses and Castles are kept by the Heir-males but many Lordships are equally divided Noble-men that are so well qualifi'd as to merit the King 's special favour may come to great Preferment and Riches 'T is out of the Nobility that is chosen the Council of State the Senators whereof must not exceed the number of 38. The Crown allows each of them a Competency with some fair Castle in the Countrey for his Retirements whilst he is of that Body The Chief Men of this Council are the Ricks Drost and the Lords Marshal Admiral Chancellour and Treasurer The Ricks Drost is as it were the King's Lieutenant that manages resolves and dispatches the King's Affairs The Lord Marshal takes care both in Peace and War of all Military Concerns and the Admiral sees to Maritime Affairs The Chancellor judges of Civil Causes and the Treasurer receives the King's Revenues The third Order or Degree is the Clergy The Body of which does consist of Ministers otherwise called the Inferiour Clergy And out of these are chosen the Superintendents or Bishops for the Church-Government These are the Overseers Inspectors and Heads of the Clergy Over which there is a general Superintendent and that is the Bishop or Arch-bishop if you will of Copenhagen These Governours of the Church have indeed a Priority both of Place and Power before other Ministers together with some liberal Maintenance in proportion to it They have a Power of Presidence in all Church Assemblies but so that they are to take along with them the Advice of other Ministers From whom they do not otherwise differ either in Order Habit or Title of Dignity All of them in general and in particular are accountable to the Supream Ecclesiastical Consistory as in former times to the Provincial or National Synod Which Consistory is made up of Counsellors of State and the Heads of the Clergy In short both the Revenues and the Power of these Prelates are much Inferiour to what it was formerly before the Reformation so that a Bishop here is little better than Primus inter Pares The fourth Order or Degree consists of Townsmen Burgesses and Merchants who have their Privileges peculiar to themselves Out of these and from the Husbandmens