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Johann Adolf Of Holstein-gottorp




He was a third son of Duke Adolf Of Holstein-Gottorp and his wife Christine Of Hesse-Kassel . He bacame the Duke after the deaths of his both elders brothers.


FAMILY AND CHILDREN

He married on 30 August 1596 to Princess Augusta Of Denmark , daughter of King Frederick II Of Denmark . They had the following children:
# Frederick III Of Holstein-Gottorp ( 22 December 159710 August 1659 ).
# Elisabeth Sofie ( 12 October 159925 November 1627 ), married on 5 March 1621 to Duke August Of Saxe-Lauenburg .
# Adolf ( 15 September 160019 September 1631 ).
# Dorothea Auguste ( 12 May 160213 March 1682 ), married in 1633 to Duke Joachim Ernst I Of Holstein-Plön .
# Hedwig ( 23 December 160322 March 1657 ), married on 15 July 1620 to Pfalzgraf August Of Sulzbach .
# Anna ( 19 December 160520 March 1623 ).
# Johann ( 18 March 160621 February 1655 ).
# Christian, died young in 1609 .


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