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42-902: John Frederick may refer to: John Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp (1579–1634), Lutheran administrator of the prince-bishoprics of Bremen, Lübeck and Verden John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1503–1554), known as "The Magnanimous" John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony-Coburg-Eisenach  [ de ] , "the middle one" (1529–1595) John Frederick, Duke of Württemberg (1582–1628) John Frederick (London MP) (1601–1685), British Member of Parliament for Dartmouth, 1660–1661, and City of London, 1663–1679, and Lord Mayor of London Sir John Frederick, 4th Baronet (1708–1783), British Member of Parliament for New Shoreham, 1740–1741, and West Looe, 1743–1761 Sir John Frederick, 5th Baronet (1750–1825), British Member of Parliament for Newport, 1774–1780, Christchurch, 1781–1790, and Surrey, 1794–1807 John Frederick,

84-590: A Baltic trade monopoly, to be run by some imperial favourites including Spaniards and Poles. The idea was to win Sweden 's and Denmark 's support, both of which since long were after the destruction of the Hanseatic League . In May 1625 Christian IV of Denmark, Duke of Holstein was elected – in the latter of his functions – by the Lower Saxon Circle 's member territories commander-in-chief of

126-648: A Swedish military administration with John Frederick being officially the Administrator. The reconquest of the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen – helped by forces from Sweden and from the city of Bremen – was interrupted by Leaguist forces under Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim , coming as a relief to Stade , where they joined the Catholic imperial and Leaguist forces still holding out. On May 10, 1632, they were granted safe-conduct and left

168-480: A desperately impoverished city of Stade after its siege by John Frederick's forces. John Frederick was back in his office, only to realise the supremacy of Sweden, insisting on its supreme command until the war's end. The Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen continuously suffered from billeting and alimenting soldiers. The relation between the Estates, who had to maintain administration under Catholic occupation, and

210-402: A husband befitting their social status or who didn't want to marry, with a decent livelihood. So when an unmarried woman of that status joined a nunnery she would bestow earning assets (real estate) or – restricted to her lifetime – regular revenues paid by her male relatives, on the nunnery, making up in the former case part of the nunnery's estates (not to be confused with the political body of

252-700: A number of Lower Saxon princes in Leipzig , all of them troubled by Habsburg's growing influence wielded by virtue of the Edict of Restitution in a number of Northern German Lutheran prince-bishoprics. John Frederick speculated to regain the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen and therefore in June/July 1631 officially allied himself with Sweden. For the war being John Frederick accepted the supreme command of Gustavus II Adolphus , who promised to restitute

294-775: A pseudonym of Frederick Schiller Faust (1892–1944), an American western author known as Max Brand John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1654–1686) John Frederick (English cricketer) (1846–1907), English cricketer John Frederick (Australian cricketer) , Australian cricketer John T. Frederick (1893–1975), literary editor, scholar, critic, and novelist John Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1600–1628), Duke of Saxe-Weimar John Frederick, Count Palatine of Sulzbach-Hilpoltstein (1587–1644) John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1625–1679) John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania (1542–1600) John Frederick, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1721–1767) John W. Frederick Jr. (1923–1972), American Marine POW during

336-619: A ransom of 10,000 rixdollars in order to spare its siege. The city remained unoccupied. Wallenstein had meanwhile conquered all the Jutish Peninsula , which made Christian IV to sign the Treaty of Lübeck , on May 22, 1629, in order to regain possession of all his feoffs on the peninsula, he in return agreed to formally end Denmark's participation in the Thirty Years' War and waived for his son Frederick II, Administrator of

378-712: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages John Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp His parents were Adolf I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp and Christine, Landgravine of Hesse-Cassel . John Frederick and Anna Dobbel from Bremervörde , the Bremian prince-archiepiscopal residence, had two children: Friedrich and Christine . In 1621 Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor , legitimated them and ennobled them as von Holstein . After John Frederick's brother John Adolf succeeded their brother Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp as Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp ,

420-633: The Diet of Augsburg where he witnessed Emperor Charles V at the high point of his power. In 1553 Adolf returned to his homeland. In 1556 Adolf succeeded his younger brother Frederick as Bishop of Schleswig. On 17 December 1564 he married Christine , daughter of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse , and had the following children: Duke Adolf is a character in Stefan Heym 's 1981 book Ahasver (published in English as The Wandering Jew ). Heym's depiction of

462-525: The Edict of Restitution illegitimate. But the Swedish occupants had to be persuaded first, to accept Frederick's succession. So Chapter and Estates ruled the Prince-Archbishopric until the conclusion of the negotiations with Sweden. In 1635 he succeeded as Lutheran Administrator Frederick II in the Sees of Bremen and of Verden. But he had to render homage to the minor Queen regnant Christina of Sweden . In

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504-642: The Edict of Restitution , in favour of his youngest son, the Roman Catholic Leopold Wilhelm, Archduke of Austria , already prince-bishop of Halberstadt (1628-1648), Passau (1625-1662) and Strasbourg (1626-1662). Ferdinand II left John Frederick in office, against Leaguist resistance, for he had always kept loyalty to him. The Catholic League wished the Roman Catholic Franz Wilhelm, Count of Wartenberg , prince-bishopric of Osnabrück (1625–1661), onto

546-660: The Estates ). In many territories, where the majority of the population adopted Lutheranism , the nunneries' function to provide sustenance for unmarried women wasn't to be given up. So it happened that the Prince-Archbishopric's former Roman Catholic nunneries of Himmelpforten , Lilienthal St. Mary's Nunnery in the Valley of Lillies  [ de ] , Neuenwalde , and Osterholz with all their estates had turned into such foundations (German: das Stift , more particular: Damenstift , literally Ladies' foundation ), while

588-757: The Jesuits , in order to finance them and their missioning in the course of the Counter-Reformation in the Prince-Archbishopric. The expelled conventuals were denied to get the real estate restituted, which they bestowed on the nunnery, when they entered it. Ferdinand II suspended the capitulars from penalty, if they would dismiss the Lutheran coadjutor Frederick, later Crown Prince of Denmark from office. The Chapter refused, still backing Frederick , whom it had elected with full legal validity in 1621. So Ferdinand II himself dismissed him by way of using

630-597: The Bremian Chapter feared John Adolf would integrate the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen into his inheritable ducal monarchy. The Chapter demanded that John Adolf would resign, what he did in 1596 in favour of John Frederick . In 1607 John Adolf also handed over the Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck to his brother. At the beginning of the Thirty Years' War John Frederick and his prince-bishoprics of Bremen and Lübeck maintained neutrality, as did most of

672-569: The Duke is highly satyrical and unflattering. The Duke is shown in the midst of a night of lechery and drunkenness, charging Paul von Eitzen , Superintendent of the Lutheran church of the Gottorp share of Holstein and Schleswig , with creating "The Kingdom of God" in his duchy — i.e., imposing the newly minted Lutheran orthodoxy and persecuting "heretics" such as the Mennonites . At the same time

714-658: The Lower Saxon troops. More troops were recruited and to be billeted and alimented in the Lower Saxon territories, including the Prince-Archbishopric. In the same year Christian IV joined the Anglo-Dutch war coalition. In 1625 Johan 't Serclaes, Count of Tilly warned John Frederick to further accept the stationing of Danish troops and Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor , demanded the immediate end of his and Verden's alliance with Denmark , with Verden being already ruled by Christian's son Frederick II, Administrator of

756-435: The Prince-Archbishopric and captured its southern parts. The city of Bremen shut its city gates and entrenched behind its improved fortifications. In 1628 Tilly beleaguered Stade with its remaining garrison of 3,500 Danish and English soldiers. On May 5, 1628 Tilly granted them safe-conduct to England and Denmark and the whole Prince-Archbishopric was in his hands. Now Tilly turned to the city of Bremen , which paid him

798-723: The Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen and took their headquarters in Stade . John Frederick fled to his Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck and left the rule in the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen to the Chapter and the Estates. By 1627 Christian IV had de facto dismissed his cousin John Frederick from the Bremian See. In the same year Christian IV withdrew from the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen, in order to fight Wallenstein's invasion of his Duchy of Holstein . Tilly then invaded

840-477: The Prince-Archbishopric to its former Administrator. In October an Army, newly recruited by John Frederick , started to reconquer the Prince-Archbishopric and – supported by Swedish troops – to capture the neighboured Prince-Bishopric of Verden, de facto dismissing Verden's Catholic Prince-Bishop Franz Wilhelm, Count of Wartenberg , (ruled 1630–1632) and causing the flight of the Catholic clergy wherever they arrived. The Prince-Bishopric of Verden became subject of

882-707: The Prince-Bishopric of Verden , being as well the provided successor of John Frederick . He declared again his loyalty to the Emperor and neutrality in the conflict. But all in vain. Now Christian IV ordered his troops to capture all the important traffic hubs in the Prince-Archbishopric and entered into the Battle of Lutter am Barenberge , on 27 August 1626, where he was defeated by the Leaguist troops under Tilly . Christian IV and his surviving troops fled to

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924-506: The Prince-Bishopric of Verden , the administration of that prince-bishopric as well as the provided succession as Administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Halberstadt . John Frederick , exiled in the Imperial Free City of Lübeck , was in a markedly weak position. So in 1628 he consented that the Lutheran convent in the former Premonstratensian Our Lady's Friary  [ de ] in Stade – under Leaguist occupation –

966-451: The See of Bremen for his son Frederick, later Crown Prince of Denmark (September 1621). Coadjutorship usually included the succession of a See. In November 1619 Christian IV of Denmark, Duke of Holstein stationed Danish troops in the Bremian city of Stade , officially on behalf of his son the provided to be Administrator successor, suppressing an unrest of its burghers. In 1620 Christian,

1008-527: The See. After all, the See included at those years an annual revenue of 60,000 rixdollars at the free disposal of its holder, making up half the Prince-Archbishopric's budget. Franz Wilhelm, Count of Wartenberg , appointed by Ferdinand II as chairman of the imperial restitution commission , carrying out the provisions of the Edict of Restitution in the Lower Saxon Circle , dismissed John Frederick in 1629, who acquiesced. In February 1631 John Frederick conferred with Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden and

1050-639: The Vietnam War See also [ edit ] Johannes Friedrich (disambiguation) John Friedrich (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Frederick&oldid=954999538 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

1092-844: The Younger , titular Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg-Wolfenbüttel , the Lutheran Administrator of the Prince-Bishopric Halberstadt requested that the Lutheran Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen would join the war coalition of the Protestant Union . John Frederick and the Bremian Estates met in a Diet and declared for their territory their loyalty to Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor , and their neutrality in

1134-598: The brother-in-law of Christian IV of Denmark , started a new anti- Habsburg campaign. Thus the troops of the Catholic League were bound and the Prince-Archbishopric seemed relieved. But soon after the imperial troops under Albrecht von Wallenstein headed for the North in an attempt to destroy the fading Hanseatic League , in order to subject the Hanseatic cities of Bremen , Hamburg and Lübeck and to establish

1176-399: The city of Bremen to join, the city refused, but started to enforce its fortifications. In 1623 the territories comprising the Lower Saxon Circle decided to recruit an army in order to maintain an armed neutrality, with troops of the Catholic League already operating in the neighboured Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Circle and dangerously approaching their region. The concomitant effects of

1218-652: The conflict. With Danish troops within his territory and Christian the Younger's request John Frederick tried desperately to keep his Prince-Archbishopric out of the war, being in complete agreement with the Estates and the city of Bremen . When in 1623 the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands , fighting in the Eighty Years' War for its independence against Habsburg 's Spanish and imperial forces, requested its Calvinist co-religionist of

1260-424: The duchies of Schleswig and Holstein . The areas were divided according to approximately equal tax proceeds. Adolf, as the youngest, was entitled to the first choice. Since he selected the part with the castle Gottorp , the line of the house Oldenburg created by him was called Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp . Until the Treaty of Speyer , concluded on 23 May 1544, Adolf's half-brother Christian III of Denmark ruled

1302-415: The duchies, the brothers decided to partition the duchies of Holstein and Schleswig between themselves. The revenues of the duchies were divided into three equal shares by assigning the revenues of particular areas and landed estates to each of the elder brothers. Other general revenues, such as taxes from towns and customs duties, were levied together and then shared among the brothers. The secular rule in

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1344-463: The end of the year 1629 the Roman Catholic visitors issued an ultimatum to the Lutheran conventuals to convert to Catholicism or to leave the convents . No conversion had been recorded, so at different dates between before Christmas 1629 and April 1631 all Lutheran conventuals had been thrown out from the nunneries, with the estates of Himmelpforten and Neuenwalde then being bestowed to

1386-457: The entire Duchies of Holstein and Schleswig in the name of the then still minor Adolf and his brother John the Elder (Hans den Ældre). They determined their youngest brother Frederick was to have a career as Lutheran administrator. In 1551 Frederick became administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Hildesheim . In 1544, following negotiations between the elder three brothers and the nobility of

1428-676: The fiscally divided duchies was shared between the brothers. As dukes of Holstein and Schleswig the three brothers bore the formal title of "Duke of Schleswig, Holstein, Ditmarsh and Stormarn ". Adolf founded a cadet branch of the royal Danish House of Oldenburg called the House of Holstein-Gottorp . John the Elder, the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Haderslev, produced no issue, so no branch emerged from his side. After his death in 1580, Adolf and his nephew Frederick II of Denmark halved John's share among themselves. Adolf travelled, entrusting Johan Rantzau to manage his country. Adolf participated in

1470-438: The local strongholds for a reCatholicisation within the scope of Counter-Reformation . Under the threat of the Edict of Restitution John Frederick consented to Canonical Visitations of the remaining monasteries, those clinging to Roman Catholic rite and those converted to voluntary Lutheran convents alike. Nunneries had traditionally been institutions to provide unmarried daughters of the better off, who couldn't be provided

1512-401: The nunnery of Zeven was in the process of becoming one, with – among a majority of Catholic nuns – a number of nuns of Lutheran denomination, usually called conventuals. Other expressions like abbess, for the chairwoman, and prioress for conventuals of certain hierarchic function, were – and are partly – continued to be used in such Lutheran Stifte . Within the scope of the visitations by

1554-482: The returned John Frederick were difficult. The Estates preferred to directly negotiate with the occupants, this time the Swedes. John Frederick wanted to secularise the monasteries in favour of his budget, but the opposing Estates prevented that. After John Frederick's death in 1634 the Bremian Chapter and Estates regarded Frederick's (later Danish Crown Prince) dismissal as coadjutor by Ferdinand II by virtue of

1596-511: The same year Pope Urban VIII provided the Catholic coadjutor Leopold Wilhelm, Archduke of Austria , imposed in 1629 by his father Ferdinand II , with the Archdiocese of Bremen, but due to its persisting occupation by the Swedes he never gained de facto pastoral influence let alone the power as prince-archbishop. Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp Adolf of Denmark or Adolf of Holstein-Gottorp (25 January 1526 –1 October 1586)

1638-664: The territories in the Lower Saxon Circle . After 1613 King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway , being in personal union Duke of Holstein within the Holy Roman Empire , turned his attention to gain grounds by acquiring the prince-bishoprics of Bremen , Verden , Minden and Halberstadt . He skillfully took advantage of the alarm of the German Protestants after the Battle of White Mountain in 1620, to stipulate with Bremen's Chapter and John Frederick , his cousin of second degree, to grant coadjutorship of

1680-511: The war, debasements and dearness, had already caused an inflation also in the region. The population suffered from billeting and alimenting Baden-Durlachian , Danish, Halberstadtian , Leaguist , and Palatine troops, whose marching through the John Frederick had to tolerate in order to prevent entering into armed conflict. In 1623 the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands , diplomatically supported by James I, King of England ,

1722-510: Was restituted to Catholic rite and manned with foreign monks, if the Chapter would also agree. Again passing the buck on to the Chapter. The Leaguist takeover enabled Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor , to implement the Edict of Restitution , decreed March 6, 1629, within the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen . The Bremian monasteries still maintaining Roman Catholic rite – Altkloster , Harsefeld Archabbey  [ de ] , Neukloster , and Zeven Nunnery  [ de ] – became

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1764-546: Was the first Duke of Holstein-Gottorp from the line of Holstein-Gottorp of the House of Oldenburg . He was the third son of King Frederick I of Denmark and his second wife, Sophie of Pomerania . King Frederick I had his son educated by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse . He spent four years at the Landgrave's castle in Kassel . In 1544, Adolf, his brother Johann, and their half-brother King Christian III of Denmark , divided

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