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
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