The genealogies of the high-born Prince & Princess, George and Anne of Denmark, &c. shewing the lineal descent of these two noble and illustrious families : with their matches, issue, times of death, places of sepulchre, impresses, devices, &c. from the year of grace M. to this present year, MDCLXXXIV ...

12. Christian the III. King of Denmark, &c.

CHRISTIAN the third, Sirnamed the Pious King of Denmark, &c. succeeded his Father Frederick in all his Dominions, He was born on the twelth day of August, in the year of Grace, one thousand five hundred and three, fifty six minuites past three in the Afternoon: And bred up in his youth under the Elector of Bran∣denburgh his Uncle, where he pro∣fited in all sorts of Exercises and Studies becoming the Ingenuity of a Magnanimous Prince: He was So∣lemnly Crowned by the Hands of John Bugenhage a Divine of Pomerain on the twelfth of the Kalends of July, that is, on the twentieth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand five hundred thirty and seven. From which time he wholly applyed him∣self to benefit the Commonwealth, by

Instituting wholesome and good Laws, restoring publick Edifices, and raised the University of Coppenhagen (almost destroyed) to its former Splendor and Magnificence, doing many other Acts of Piety and Justice: Wherefore this is recorded to his Glory; that his House was the Temple of the Holy-Ghost, the Eye of Prudence, the Pattern of Honesty, the Fountain of the Graces, the Choir of the Muses, the School of Learned men, and the Temple of Divines; the Table of the Poor, the Refuge of Innocence, and the Protection of the Miserable. He departed this Life, (not without (as is reported) a Heavenly Revelation by an Angel) on the first day of January, in the year one thousand five hundred fifty and nine, at Koldingen (in Cim∣bria-chersonesus) after he had lived fifty and five years four months and twenty days. His body was first In∣terr'd at Ottenwaldt in the house of St. Canute, but afterwards by his Son translated to Roschilt, where he lyes

Nobly Intom'd under a stately Monu∣ment of Alablaster and Marble. He took to Wife Dorothea the Daughter of Magnus Duke of Lower-Sarony, Angria and Westphalia; who dying on the seventh day of October, in the year one thousand five hundred seven∣ty and one, and of her Age sixty, was first buried at Scanderburg in Den∣mark, but afterwards remov'd to Roschilt, where she lyes with her Husband. Children by Christian the Third and this Dorothea, were first FREDERICK, who was King of Den∣mark. MAGNUS the second Son, Heir of Norway, Duke of Holstein and Sleswick, born at Coppenhagen on St. Bartholomew-day, in the year one thousand five hundred and fourty, fourty minutes past ten in the morning; he married the great Duke of Musco∣vy's Neece, and was made Bishop of Orpen in Livonia, where he died, in the year one thousand five hundred and eighty. JOHN the youngest, Duke of Holstein, Stormar, and

Ditzmarch, &c. was born at Koldin∣gen on the one and twentieth day of March, in the year one thousand five hundred fourty and five, at half an hour after seven at night. He married first Elizabeth the Daughter of Ernest Duke of Lunenburgh, in the year one thousand five hundred sixty and seven, who died on the twelfth of February, nineteen years after, without Issue; so that in the year one thousand five hundred eighty and eight, he took to his second Wife Agnes-Hedwise the Daughter of Joachim Ernest Prince of Anhault, and Relict of Augustus E∣lector of Sarony, by whom he had seven Sons and six Daughters. Chri∣stian his Eldest Stiled Heir of Norway, Duke of Sleswick and Holstein, Er∣nest second Son, Duke of Sleswick and Holstein, Alexander Duke of Holstein, Augustus Duke of Sles∣wick and Holstein, John-Adolph Duke of Sleswick and Holstein, Frederick and Philip Dukes of Holstein; Doro∣thea eldest Daughter, Mary, Ann,

Sophia, Elizabeth and Margaret. ANN Eldest Daughter of Christian the Third was Wedded to Augustus E∣lector of Sarony, who died at Dres∣den in the Palace of her Husband on the Kalends of October in the year one thousand five hundred eighty and five. DOROTHEA the youngest, was the Wife of William the younger Duke of Brunswick and Lunen∣burgh.

Impress or Device.

Christian the Third King of Den∣mark, &c. Bare for his Impress or Deviee: On the Revers of his Coins▪ the Letter S. twining and enterlacing it self about the Body of the Letter F. both Roman Capitals, Ensign'd a∣bove with a Coronet: The word REG∣NA FIRMAT PIETAS.