Female Succession in Denmark

I am currently getting back to doing some work on my TL, and right now I am working on a chapter regarding Denmark and Scandinavia. I'm hoping to procure from help from some of the Scandinavian experts on the forum, as my knowledge of the region and it's history is sketchy at best.

I know that in the 1520s, Christian II was overthrown and replaced by his uncle, the Duke of Holstein. He never regained the throne, although he attempted to do so: upon his death he left no sons (his eldest having died in his youth), only two daughters. Apparently there were some plots to place one of the daughters, Christiana on the throne in the 1560s, although this amounted to nothing.

Some of the butterflies of my timeline involve a Christian II who is a little more competent, and not so reckless in his reformist policies. He still loses Sweden and the Kalmar Union is dissolved, but isn't disposed. I am also planning for his uncle, the Duke of Holstein to be childless -- he only had two children from his first marriage, and she died rather young, in her twenties, and it was ten years after the birth of her last child. It's not totally impossible to see them not have any children at all, and for her to live longer.

This would produce a sort of crisis in the succession, at least in Denmark. I know Holstein as part of the Holy Roman Empire followed Salic Succession. But would the Danish people accept a female monarch in the 16th century? I know there is Margaret I who founded the Kalmar Union, but it seems she was not ever actually Queen in her own right, simply Regent for her young son, later co-ruling the Eric of Pomerania who succeeded her.

Also, if the branch ruling in Schleswig-Holstein goes extinct, who might succeed in those duchies?

Some wikipedia links to the personalities connected of the questions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_I_of_Denmark
 

Valdemar II

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Denmark at the time didn't even have male succesion, it was a elective kingdom, where the nobles elected the king. It was only with the new constitution in 1660 that it changed.

If Christian II* rules to his death, we're going to see some succesions trouble, but because his grandsons are heirs to Norway, we're going to see one of them elected king. If not we're going to see a civil war, because anybody else would need to take Norway with force.

Schleswig-Holstein was rulee by several branches if one dies out it will go the other, of course the Christians II domains will go to his grandson, even if it shift house, while they will stay the main heir if the Frederiks branch dies out. Mostly because there're no strong alternative heirs.

*BTW he did have one son, but he died while child.
 
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Alright, thanks Valdemar. :)

I knew about Denmark having a rather elective succession at the time I just wasn't sure how entrenched it is. This makes things easier though -- Christian II lived for a fairly long time so by time his dies any potential grandsons would be in their majority. As they would be heirs to Norway as you said, the eldest grandson by the eldest daughter would no doubt succeed in Denmark. I can't see the two kingdoms splitting at this point.

But this does give me some ideas, I already have some potential husbands charted out for the daughters of Christian in this ATL...
 
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