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Valdi was the son of Christian IV and Kristin Munck. He went to Russia to wed Irina Mikhailovna, but refused when he found out converting to Orthdoxy was part of the deal. He wound up in a Russian prison for a while (3 years IIRC). When Valdi went back to Denmark and his dad died, he and Frederik III locked horns because Valdi tried to claim the elective Danish throne. After this Valdi lived abroad, first in Sweden, then in Poland (where he died).

But what if he HAD agreed to convert? Besides Valdemarovich being a mouthful of a patronym, how would this affect things? Irina's "rejection" was the reason that no Russian tsarevna after her (until Pyotr Velikiy's nieces) married abroad. Obviously Valdi being Orthodox makes it unlikely that he would be able to put in a serious claim for the Danish throne when his dad died. And was the conversion limited to him or did it include his descendants as well?

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