Posted by M.Sjostrom on 25/10/2009, 1:29:42, in reply to "the around-1800 nesetd cuckoos all but ruined the genealogy of the royal house of Denmark"
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one of highlights in all this was the 1815 marriage between
Caroline Amalie of Augustenborg (daughter of Louise auguste, cuckoo issue of Struensee)
and
prince Christian Frederik (cuckoo sired by Frederik Blücher)
http://genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00007333&tree=LEO
It is actually somewhat sad that this concentration of cuckooed material remained a childless marriage.....
--Previous Message--
:
: I got fresh reminders that actually, by the
: 1830s all relevant branches of the royal
: family of Denmark had apparently been
: infiltrated by children sired by other men
: than royal dynasts......
:
: The then heir-presumptive of the Danish
: throne, prince Christian Frederik (since
: 1839, king Christian VIII) seemingly was
: sired to his Mecklenburger mother by a
: courtier, Frederik Blücher - not the
: official father, the late prince-regent
: Frederik.
: and the same with siblings of Christian VIII
: - also they were said to be spawns of
: Blücher, instead of the lame former regent.
:
: But, also the only sister of the
: then-reigning king, Frederik VI,
: i.e princess Louise Auguste, was a cuckoo ih
: the dynastical nest: her biological father
: appears to been the executed Premier
: Struensee, who was lover of their Hanoverian
: mother.
:
: king Frederik VI himself was next to sole
: child of any of the sons of the late
: Frederik V, to been actually sired by a
: member of the dynasty, the official father.
: And Frederik VI's legitimate daughters were
: unable to beget children. So, no help from
: them....
:
: Legally, this illegitimacy seemingly had no
: impact: the throne was succeeded by cuckoos
: in that nest, it sufficed that their
: mothers' husbands had not denied the
: cuckooed paternities.
:
: Still, this cardhouse of illegitimacies was
: one of the backgrounds,
: when the Sleswick-Holsten Question was
: developing and culminated, and when Denmark
: itself also struggled with organizing its
: succession in 1840s-1850s.
:
: If and when both the line of Louise Auguste
: and the family (including siblings) of
: Christian VIII, were illegitimate,
: then (after the childless daughters of
: Frederik VI)
: the heirs in blood of the dynasty were the
: issue of daughters of the late king Frederik
: V.
: These included the deposed king of Sweden,
: the prince-elector of Hesse, the childless
: princes of Panker and Hessen, and the
: duchess-consort of Glücksborg.
: Who clearly carried on the blood of the
: dynasty, while issue of their brothers were
: so much cuckooed.
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