Town or Person at his Pleasure He can at his Will and Pleasure Convene Adjourn Prorogue Remove the States and the Senate Grant safe Conduct Letters of Mart and Reprizal with all the other Perogatives of an Independent Prince nay of one whose Will is a Law The King of Denmark has all such things as are proper To a Monarch as Crowns Scepters Purple Robe and Holy Vnction and acknowledgeth no Superiour but God nor holdeth his Kingdom in Vassalage nor receiveth his Investiture or Instalment from another Thus at the congress of Nimeguen there being a dispute between the French and Danish Ambassadors about the Language they were to Treat in the French Insisting to Love both Parties use French the Danes Replyed that if the French used the French they would use Danish Being well assured that their Master yielded in nothing to the French King either as to the extent of his Perogative or of his Dominions And since the Introduction and Establishment in Denmark of the Augsbourg Confession there lyes no Appeal from the King to the Pope as there does in the Catholick Princes Dominions but He is Supream Head and Governour in all matters as well Ecclesiastical as Civil so that none of his Subjects whatsoever are exempt from his Jurisdiction and Justice Hardly any Prince in Europe is looked upon with more Veneration and Respect than this Monarch is by his Subjects they paying him all those Respectuous Duties Devoirs and Reverence that a Sovereign can Receive But before I proceed any further I shall give an account of the Royal Family as it Standeth at this day as also of the Nobility and other Orders of the Kingdom And having already said that the King Married Charlotra Amalia the Daughter of William the Sixth Landgrave of Hesse Cassel in the year 1669 He hath had by that Princess the following Issue Frederick the Heir apparent Born on the 21st of October 1671. Christianus Wilhelmus Born on the 21st of November 1672. Dyed on the 25 of January 1673. Christian Born on the 25th of March 1678. Sophia Hedwig Bom on the 28. of August 1677. Since that Princess a younger Daughter Carolus Born in the Year 1682. or the Queen Mother Sophia Amalia Prince George the present Kings Brother was Born in the year 1653. a Prince of extraordinary Vertues and Qualifications and all the Actions of whose Life both in Peace and War have shown Wisdom Valour and Conduct and more particularly he gave extraordinary Testimonies of his Gallantry and Courage in the Battel of Lunden when that the King his Brother being taken Prisoner by the Sweeds notwithstanding that the Enemies far Surpassed 'em in number that his Men were disheartned and over-powered Nevertheless he rush'd in amongst them cut his way through all Opposition and Slew those Persons with his own Hand who had dared to lay hold on his Royal Brother And thus delivered the King from his Enemies Anna Sophia the King of Denmark's Eldest Sister was born on the first of September in the year 1647. and was Married in September 1663. to John George the Third of the Name Prince Electoral of Saxony the Son of the Elector John George and of Magdelena Sibyla Marchioness of Brandenbourg And their Marriage was consummated at Copenhagen on the 16 of October 1666. Frederica Amalia Born 1648. was Married at Gluckstadt on the 3d. of November 1667. to Christian Adolph the Duke of Holstein Sunderbourg the Son of the Duke John Christian and of Dorothea Johanna Countess of Swarthenbourg Wilhelmina Ernestina Born on the 20 of June 1650. and Married to the present Elector Palatine in the year 1671. Vlrica Eleonora Sabina the Third Daughter Born in the year and Married to the present King of Sweeden in 1680. of the Ceremonies and Solemnization of whose Marriage more hereafter Frederick Guldenlieu Vice Roy of Norway the late Kings Natural Son Having thus spoken of the Kings Children and Brothers I shall now proceed to set down the Princes of the Blood and other Branches of the Royal Family which form Sire Branches All these Princes are Issued from Christian the 3d. King of Denmark except the Branches of Oytin and of Golterp which come from Adolph Duke of Heswick that same Kings Brother Sunderbourg Christian Adilphe of Denmark Heir of Norway Duke of Heswick of Hostein Sunderbourg of Stormaria and Dithmarsh was Born the 3d. of June 1641. of Duke John Christian who Died the 20th of August 1659. Married at Geluckstadt the 3d. of November in the year 1667. Frederices Emilia Princess of Denmark the 2d Daughter of King Frederick the 3d. and of Sophia Amalia Dutchess of Lunenburg his Wife He has two Sisters Dorothea Augusta Born on the 12th of September 1636. and Christina Elizabetha Born on the 9th of June 1638. Married in the year 1656. with John Ernest Duke of Sax-Weymar Alexander Henry the Uncle of Duke Christian Adolphus Born 1608. Ernest Gunther Alexanders Brother Born 1609. Married Augusta of Holstein Glucksbourg the Daughter of Duke Philip and of Sophia Hedwig of Sax-Sawenbourg without Children George Frederick Born in the year 1611. Augustus Philip likewise Brother of Alexander Born in the year 1612. Married in 1645. Calrai Countess of Oldenbourg the Daughter of Count Anthony who Died 1647. and in Second Nuptials Sidonia her Sister who Died 1650 and in the Third Maria Sibylla Countess of Nassaw the Daughter of Count William Lewis Of which Marriages He has not hitherto had any Children Philip Lewis Duke of Holstein Sunderbourg the Brother of those Princes Colonel of a Regiment of Foot against the Turk in the year 1662. was Born on the 27 of October 1620. and had for his first Wife on the 15th of November 1643. Catharina Countess of Waldeck the Widow of Simon Lewis Count de Lippe the Daughter of Count Christian who departed this Life 1649. and was a Second time Married in the year 1650. to Anna Margarita Langravinne of Hess-Hombourg and of Margarita Elizabetha Countess of Leiningen from whom Issued two Sons and three Daughters Sophia Catharina their Sister born in the year 1617. Married in the year 1635. to Anthony Gunther Died without Children Norbourg Frederick Duke of Holstein Norbourg the Uncle of the Duke of Sunderbourg was Born on the 26th of November 1581. of Duke John and of his first Wife Elizabeth Dutchess of Brunswick the first Wife he Married in the year 1627. was Juliana Dutchess of Saxe-Lawenbourg the Daughter of Duke Francis and of Mary Dutchess of Brunswick his Second Wife who Died 1630. and he again Married in 1632. Eleonora Princess of Anhalt the Daughter of Prince Rodolph Zerbst and of Dorothy Hedwige Dutchess of Brunswick his first Wife He died 1658. First Bed John Bugislas Duke of Holspein Norbourg Born 1629. on the 30th of Septemb. Second Bed Elizabeth Juliana Born 1634. Married 1656. Anthony Vlrick Duke of Brunswick the Son of Augustus Duke of Brunswick Wolphembuttel and of Dorothy Princess of Anhalt his Second Wife Dorothea Hedwig
afterwards by Bernardine the Monk with the Eucharist 27. Eric Glipping the Son of King Christopher being possessed of his Fathers Scepter Lived one of the most Leudest and Debauchest Lives Imaginable committing all manner of Sacriledges Murders Oppressions and Whoredoms till he was Assassinated with Fifty six some say Seventy Wounds as he was Sleeping one Night in a Barn at Findetorp a small Vilage in the Bishoprick of Wiberg by seven Ruffians hired to Kill him by Andrew Soiget Marshal of Denmark whose Wife he had Ravished and some others of the Nobility in the year 1286. and was Succeeded by 28. Eric Menved Glippings Son who was as good and Pious a Prince as his Father was Impious and Wicked being preserved by Providence from the Death and Murder which was Plotted by the Conspiraters against his Fathers Life He Dyed peaceably as he had Lived in the year 1319. was Buryed at Ringstad and Succeeded by his Brother 29. Christopher the Second much unlike his Predecessor being a Cruel Perfidious Unfortunate and Sloathful Prince a Hater of all and Hated by all Having lingred out a Reign of Thirteen years in 1333 he Dyed at Niccoping in the Isle of Falster being forsaken of all neglected and unpittyed After this Princes Death there was an Inter-regnum of fifteen years but the Danes growing Sensible of the confusions they lay under for want of a Head resolved to Settle 30. Waldemar the Third King King Christophers Son upon the Throne of his Father He pull'd down the Usurpers and Recollected the scatter'd Members of the Realm without much Molestation He is said to have been a Prince endued with all those Great Qualities that can adorn a Throne When Pope Gregory the 11th threatned to Excommunicate him for his saucy Behaviour in the Stile of the See of Rome he returned this Answer Waldemar King of Denmark c. To the Bishop of Rome Sendeth Greeting We hold our Life from God our Kingdom from our Subjects our Riches from our Parents and our Faith from thy Predecessor which if thou wilt not Grant us any longer We do by these Presents Resigne Farewell He Dyed in the year 1378. and was Buryed by his Father at Sora and Succeeded by his Daughter 31. Margaret who was Crowned Queen of Denmark upon the Death of her Father and Sway'd the Scepter with more Prudence and Conduct than any of her Predecessors she taking in one Campaign Albert King of Sweeden Rodulph Arch-Bishop of Scharen the Duke of Mecklenburg and the Earl of Holstein and Reppin Prisoners she Dyed a great Friend to Religion and Patroness to the Clergy and was Buryed at Roschild in the year 1412. Her Father was used to say That Nature intended her for a Man but Spoiled her in the making She left the Crown to 32. Eric the Son of Vratislaw the Seventh Duke of Pomeren her Great Nephew who having Reigned many years like a cruel Tyrant was at length constrained to abandon his Throne and Fly from the Fury of his Incens'd Nobility into Gothland taking with him a vast Treasure and one Cicilia his Miss who by the Influence she had over him brought him to that wretched condition 33. Christopher Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine another of King Waldemars great Grand Children succeeding Eric in the Kingdoms of Denmark Norway and Sweeden His sway was short but Glorious and successful more especially prosperous in his Warrs against the Rebells in Juitland and the Hans-Towns He died without Issue at Helsingburg in the year 1447. 34. Christian 1. Theodoric Count of Oldenburgs Son was chosen King of Denmark upon the Death of King Christopher he had all the Royal Quallities that can Illustrate a Throne He reduced the Sweeds to their Allegiance who had Revolted from the Crown of Denmark in the begining of His Reign added Holstein to His Dominions made Himself Duke of Dithmars and Stormar and having swayed the Scepter Three and Thirty years He Died in Peace in the year 1481. and was Buried a in Chappel of his own Building at Roschild leaving his Scepture to 35. John his Son who was a Generous Valiant and Pious Prince and very prosperous in almost all His undertakings He Died of the Plague at Olburg in the year 1513. 36. Christian the 2d his Son succeeded Him who was the greatest Tyrant not only that ever swayed the Scepter of Denmark but perhaps that ever any other Nation did produce He is said to have been Born with one Hand grasp'd which when the Midwife open'd she found full of Blood Thus when by the Barbarity and Cruelty of his Reign He had been compelled to abandon the possession of Three Kingdoms and had underwent the Miseries of Banishment and Imprisonment for six and Thirty years He Died wretchedly in the Castle of Kallenburg in Zealand in the year 1559. and was succeeded by his Uncle 37. Federic the 1. King John's Brother Immediately after his Coronation He began to Introduce the Augsburg Confession into all the Churches of Denmark He swayed the Septer almost Ten years in Peace and quietness and Died at Sleswig in the year 1533. 38. Christian the Third Fredericks Son Succeeded his Father He compleated the Reformation which his Father had begun in the Church is celebrated for all the Christian and Royal Vertues that a Prince can stand possessed off His Reign having been exceeding Happy both to himself and his Subjects he left the Scepter to his Son 39. Frederick the II. who was a Religious Observer of the Steps of his Father and after a prosperous Reign of Nine and Twenty Years Died in his Pallace at Anderscow in the year 1587. and had for his Successor 40. Christian the IV. who before his Fathers Burial was chosen and soon after Crowned King of Denmark During his Reign Ferdinand the II. Emperour of Germany over-run the greatest part of the Cimbrian Chersonese and had almost Subdued the whole Kingdom of Denmark but King Christian using his last efforts constrained the Imperalists to retire and made an Honourable Peace he Died in the year 1648. and was Succeeded by 41. Frederick the Third his Son About the middle of this Princes Reign his Crown had like to have been taken of his Head by the Victorious Charles Gustave King of Sweeden who had reduced him to that Extremity as that he had nothing more left then his Town of Copenhaguen but the Emperonr King of Poland and other Nothern Princes confederating together the King of Sweeden was compelled to the Treaty at Roschild which nevertheless stripped Denmark of many of it's best holds and Provinces Yet the Crown received this advantage as to be made Heriditary in the present Family and the People instead of many Tyrants which they had in the Nobles no more one Master He Dyed of a Feaver the twenty fifth day of February 1669. and that Night the Nobility Swore Allegiance to the New King 42. Chrstian Fifth now Reigning Anactive and Valiant Prince was Born on the 18th of
Born 1636. Doyene of Gandersheim Christian Augustus Born 1639. Ludorica Amalia Born 1642. Rodolphus Frederick Born 1645. Gluckbourg Philip Duke of Holstein Gluckbourg the Grand Uncle of Duke Christian Augustus was Born 1584. and died 1663. being the Brother of Duke Frederick above mentioned Born of the first Bed Married in the year 1624. Sophia Hedwig Dutches of Saxe-Lawenbourg the Daughter of Duke Frareis and of Mary Dutchess of Brunswick his Second Wife of which Marriage are Born Christian Born in 1627. and dyed 1671. Mary-Elizabeth Born in the year 1628. Married 1651. to George Albert Marquess of Brandenbourg and dyed 1664. Adolphe Born 1631. Augusta Born 1633. Married in 1651. to Ernest Gunther Duke of Holstein Sunderbourg her Cousin the Son of Duke Alexander and of the Dutchess Dorothey Countess of Schwartrenbourg Christina Born 1634. Married 1650. Christian Duke of Saxony Dorothy Born 1636. Married for the first time in the year 1653. Christian Lewis Duke of Lunenbourg and the Second on the 25th of June 1668. Frederick William Marquess of Brandenbourg Elector Hedwig Born 1643. Eleonor Dutches of Holstein Sister of Philip Born 1590. Second Bed Hedwig the Sister of Dorothy Born 1643. Anna Sabina the Dutchess of Holstein Born in the year 1593. of the Second Bed of Duke John of his Second Wise Agnes-Hedwig Princess of Anhalt Married 1698. Julius Frederick Duke of Wirtembourg the Son of Duke Frederick Count of Montbeliard who left her a Widow died 1659. Arnsbeck Joachim Ernest Duke of Holstein-Arnsbeck Born in the year 1595. of John Duke of Sleswick and of Holstein Sunderbourg and of his Second Wife Agnes Hedwig Princess of Anhalt Born in the year 1595. Married in 1633. Dorothea Augusta Dutchess of Holstein leswick his Cousin the Daughter of Duke John Adolphus and of the Princess Augusta of Denmark He Dyed 1671. but had by that Princess John Adolphus in 1634. General Major of the Imperial Cavalry against the Turks in 1664. Augustus Born in 1639. Ernestina in 1636. Joachim Ernest 1637. Bernard 1639. Agnes Hedwig 1640. Sophia Eleonor 1644. Eleonor Sophia the Sister of Joachim Ernest Born 1603. of the Second Bed Married in the year 1625. Christian the young Prince of Anhalt the Son of Christian Prince of Anhalt Barnbourg whose Widow she is Gottorp Frederick Duke of Sleswick of Holstein Gottorp of Stormaria of Dithmars Cousin German of Duke Joachim Ernest Born 1697. of Duke John Adolphus and of Augusta Princess of Denmark Married in the year 1630. Mary-Elizabeth Dutchess of Saxony the Daughter of the Elector John George and of Magdalena Sibila of Brandenbourg Prussia of which Alliance are Born the following Children In the year 1633. this Prince sent a signal Embassy into Muscovy into Persia for the Establishment of the Commerce by Land He Alternates with the King of Denmark in the Admistration of Justice in the Session at the Dyets of the Empire and in all the Rights of the Regale He Died the 10 of Aug. 1659. Sophia Augusta Born 1630. Married 1649. with John Prince of Anhalt Zerbst the Son of Prince Rodolphus Magdalena Sibila Born 1631. Married in the year 1654. to Gustavus Adolphus Duke of Mecklembourg the Son of Duke John Albert. Mary Elizabeth Born 1634. Married in the year 1650 to Lewis Landgrave of Hesse Darmstadt the Son of the Landgrave George the Second Hedwig Eleonor Born 1636. on the 23 of October Married in the year 1654. on the 24 of October Carolus Gustavus King of Sweeden the Son of John Casimir Count Palatine of the Rhine and of Katharina Princess of Sweeden Sister of King Gustavus Adolphus Anna Dorothea Born 1640. Augustus Frederick Born 1646. Augusta Maria 1649. Ottingen or Oyten John Augustus Duke of Holstein Ottingen Nephew of Duke Frederick Gottorp Born 1647. on the third of August the Son of John Duke of Holstein Ottingen or Oyten and of Juliana Felecita Dutchess of Wirtembourg Dorothea Augusta Sister of Duke Frederick Gottorp Born 1602. Married in 1633. Joachim Ernest Duke of Holstein Arnsbourg Her Cousin the Son of Duke John and of his Second Wife Agnes Hedwig Princess of Anhalt Hedwig Sister of Dorothea Born in 1603. Married in 1620. with Augustus Count Palatine of Sultzbach the Son of Philip Lewis Count Palatine Duke of Newbourg and Ann of Cleves and of Juliers Died in 1656. And I shall pass on to the Nobles who never Claim nor pretend to the Titles of Dukes Earls or Barons but are such as have had a single Coat of Arms belonging to their Family for many Ages Denmark is said to have at this day some Families of that Nobility of that antiquity as VVren and others as to have been present at the Signing of a Treaty of Peace between Charles Magne and the Danish King Hemmines on the Eider Out of this Body of the Nobility are drawn the Senators of the Kingdom or the Members of the Council of State who are Elected to the Number of 28. All a Noblemans Goods moveable and immoveable are at his Death divided amongst his Children the Son having two Moities and a Daughter only one The King cannot by the Laws of Denmark purchase any part of a Noble-Mans Estate neither can the Nobles buy any of the Crown Lands some Officers of the Crown Knights of the Order of the Elephant Vice-Roys and Governours of Provinces and Places were formerly chosen out of the Body of the Nobility and nominated by the Election of the Senators bating the Knights of the Order But at present since the Reformation of that Kingdom half of those Officers are drawn out of the Body of the Burgery the King being willing to consider and Reward that part of the State which served with so much Courage and fidelity at the Siege of Copenhagen when that Capital of the Kingdom was almost the only place which sustained almost all Efforts of the Sweedish Army which had taken in all the rest of the Kingdom But here I will Insert a Catalogue of the Principal Families of the Nobility now in Denmark in the following Alphabetical Order A Achsel Appelgard Alefeld Andersem B Bielke Banner Brache Bilig Below Bilde Brokenhusem Biorn Beck Blick Bassi Bax. Baselich Bille Bilde Bockowlt Budde Baggen Bammelbourg Brune Blom Brocktorp Breiden D Dreslelberch Daac Dune Duram Dam. F Freze Fassi Falster Faleke G Gulderstern Grubbe Goce Green Gelschut Galle Gram. Gris. Goss Gadendorp Grahow H Hardenberg Holke Hoken Hiderstorper Hiderstorper Hube Hesten Hager Holer Haeken Hoier Hacken Harberger I Jul. Jensen Juenan Juensen Johensen K Korwitz Krabbe Kaas Krusen Kragge Krumpen Kramdick Kerckberg Karssenbrock Kaelet Kutzen L Lange Lindeman Lunge Lutkem Laxman Lancken Leven Luck Lindow Lutken M Munck Matiessen Marizer Must Matre. Meinstorf Maeten Magnussen N Negil Narbu Norman O Ofrin Otten P Pasberg Podessen Podebussen Papenheimb Pogwisch Plessen Peâ—sen Paisen Petersen Q Qualem Quittow R Rantzaw Rosentkrantz Rastorp Ruthede Reuter Ruten Rosenpart Rosengard Roanow Reventlow Ratlow Ritzerow S Schram Schefeldt Schelen Seestede Stuege Swron Stantbeke
enter France till the year 876. and was not Established peaceably in Normandy till 889. or 890. 3. Eric Barn or the Child being the only Male left alive of the Royal Family after the Bloody Wars between Eric and Guthorn King of Norway But he had not been long upon the Throne before he Renewed the Persecution upon the Christians with more Cruelty then his Prodecessors had done destroying more Churches Bishops and Religious Houses then all the other Danish Kings put together He Prosecuted his Wars in Germany with great Gallantry and Conduct Slaying with his own Hands Bruno Duke of Saxony and Twelve Counts He Departed this Life in the year 902. 4. Canutus Lodneknut or the Hairy Succeeded his Father Eric In his time every Third Man in Denmark went to seek his Fortune and those who went away thus upon these Expeditions over-run all Prusia Courland Semgal and other Countries where they Established themselves and where their Posterity remain unto this day He Dyed a Pagan in the year 912. And was Succeeded by 5. Frotho his Son though some say Sueno his Brother Reigned Nine years He was twenty years King of England and Denmark being Converted to Christianity in England and Dyed a zealous Christian his next Successors was 6. Gormo Gormund or Guthram Surnaned Hartesnute and Engelander because Born in England He with his Attendants was Baptized at Aalâ—e in Somersetshire our Learned and Pious King Alfred being his Godfather and gave him the Name of Athelstanes and the Kingdom of the East-Angles 7. Harald Surnamed Blaat and Succeeded his Father Gormo In his days did the Danes make that Famous Trench between Gottorp and Sleswick called Dannewerk 8. Sueno or Suenotho Surnamed Tuiskeg that is Fork'd Beard Succeeded Harald At his first coming to the Crown he was a Pagan and Exercised great Cruelty upon the Christians but was afterwards Converted to Christianity and Erected three Bishopricks at Sleswick Ripen and Arhusen He is by some said to have Dyed in the year 1012. and was Buryed at York Others in 1014. and Intombed in Denmark 9. Canutus the Great Son to Sueno He was at once King of England Denmark Sweeden Norway Slavonia and Sambland some say too King or Duke of Normandy He was Buryed at Winchester in the year 1036. after he had been Seaven and twenty years King of Denmark twenty four of England and Seaven of Norway and was Suoceeded in the Crown of Denmark by his Son 10. Hardi-Cnute who within four years obtained the Kingdom of England upon the Death of his Brother Harald He Dyed in England in the year 1041. and was Buryed by his Father in the Cathedral of Winchester 11. Magnus King of Norway possessed himself of the Crown of Denmark by main force upon the Death of Hardi-Cnute pretending a Contract that Entituled him to it but had it not long in possession He Dyed in the year 1048. and left the Crown to 12. Sueno Esthret Son of one Vlf an English Earl He Departed this Life in the year 1074. and left behind him five Sons who all of them Enjoyed Successively their Fathers Crown 13. Harald Sueno's Eldest Son Swayed the Scepter no longer then two years being an easie efferninate timerous Prince So that the English laid hold of the Juncture shook off the Danish Yoak without any great trouble 14. St. Canutus the Second Son of King Swain in the year 1088. was Inhumanly Murdered by his own Subject at St. Albans Church in Odensee a City in the Isle of Funen which he had made his Sanctuary Now his Brother Olaf longing for the Crown Fomented a Rebellion against Canutus and effected his designs by the means of the Kings commanding his Subjects to pay Tyths according to the Custom of other Nations And this Fomented the People into such a Rage by Olafs practises that nothing could appease but their Soveraigns Martyrdome 15. Olaf the Third Son of Swain upon the Assassination of St. Canutus was Unanimously Declared King by his Partizans But he and the whole Kingdom were not long before they received their just Punishment for that Execrable Crime of Murdering their Prince for Heaven was pleas'd to send so great a Famine over all Denmark that the Kings own Family wanted Bread Olaf well knowing his Crimes had brought that Judgment upon the Realm offered up his Prayers to God that he would be pleased to divert the Stream of his Vengeance from off the People upon his Head that had offended Whereupon the very same Night he Dyed Hungry and Wretched in the year 1096 and the Famine forthwith abated 16. Eric Swains Fourth Son Surnamed the Good for his Religious Zeal and Piety Dyed in his Pilgrimage towards Jerusalem and was Buried in the Isle of Cyprus in the year 1106. during his Reign Lunden in Schonen was made an Arch-Bishops See all the Danish Bishops being before that time under the Jurisdiction of the Arch-Bishop of Brement 17. Nicholas Suenos's youngest Son Succeeded his Brother but was Slain in the year 1135. by the Jutes in Revenge of the Death of Chute Duke of Flanders whom he had caused to be Assassinated in the Church 18. Eric Emund a good Religious Prince Succeeded his Uncle Nicarlus in the year 1130. was in his own Pallace Inhumanly Assassinated by one Plagsorte a Nobleman of Juitland 19. Eric Lamb Succeeded his Unckle Eric Emund But after a while laid down his Crown and retired into a Monastry at Odensce in Funen where he departed this Life in the year 1147. 20. Swain Gratenhede Eric Emunds Son got the Crown upon the Death of his Kinsman Eric Lamb. Three Kings of Denmark were at the same time in this Princes days One part of the People being for Cnute King Nicholas's Grand-Child another for Waldemar Son to Cnute Duke of Flanders After some Rancounters and Combates wherein both Swain and Cnute were Killed the whole Realm was Swayed by 21. Waldemar Surnamed the Great who was Soveraign of all the Countries on the North of the Elb and Departed this Life in the year 1182. Leaving the Crown to his Son 22. Cnutes who shewed great Conduct and Gallantry in his Wars with the German Emperour who demanded Homage of the Kings of Denmark He Dyed at Ringsted in the year 1202. 23. Waldemar the Second Succeeded his Brother He new Modelled the Danish Government Subdued Norway overcame and put to Flight the Emperour Otto who meant to render himself Master of Holstein and having Sway'd the Scepter Victoriously for Thirty Nine Years he Dyed Anno Dom. 1241. and was Succeeded by 24. Eric Plog-penning his Son who was taken at Sleswick and Slain by his Brother 25. Abel who having Reigned two years after a Wicked manner was then Assassinated by Rebels in the year 1252. and was Succeeded by his Brother 26. Christophers who having Lived in a continual War with his own Rebellious Subjects is said to have been Poysoned in the year 1259. by Arnefast Bishop of Arhusen as the Emperour Henry the Seventh was