Christian IV (1577–1648)
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King Christian IV of Denmark, in a painting by Pieter Isaacsz, dated 1612.
King of Denmark and Norway from 1588. He sided with the Protestants in the Thirty Years' War (1618–48), and founded Christiania (now Oslo, capital of Norway). He was succeeded by Frederick II in 1648.
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