![]() ![]() ![]() He wrote her a personal letter in her native, offering her a dowager queen's pension and permitting her to stay in Denmark under his protection while King Christian fled to the. King Christian imprisoned many Swedish noblewomen, related to rebellious Swedish nobles, at the infamous ('Blue Tower') of, including, and, and King used their purported harsh treatment in captivity in his propaganda against Christian II and claimed that the Danish monarch starved the women and children, who only survived by the mercy showed them by the queen of Denmark, Isabella of Austria.When King Christian was deposed in 1523 by disloyal noblemen supporting his uncle, the new king wanted to be on good terms with Isabella's family. Her husband was deposed as king of Sweden the following year. Isabella served as the regent of Denmark during Christian's stay in Sweden. She was to be the last Queen of Sweden who was also Queen of Denmark during the, but she in fact never visited Sweden pregnant at the time of her spouse's accession to the throne of Sweden, she did not follow him there. After taking Stockholm, he asked the Swedish representatives to turn it and the regency of Sweden over to Isabella if he himself should die when his children were minors. From 1516, was head of her court.In 1520, Christian took the throne of Sweden, thereby making Isabella Queen of Sweden. This angered the Emperor, and caused some diplomatic strife between him and King Christian, but the matter was resolved when Dyveke died in 1517, and Isabella's relationship with her husband improved vastly over the next few years her relationship with Sigbrit Willoms improved as well, and both women acted as political advisors to the king. Dyveke's mother, was also influential at court, and Isabella was given less influence than both of them. The King's Dutch mistress, had been with him since 1507, and he was not about to give her up for a teenager. The marriage was ratified on 12 August 1515 (she was 14 years old).Queen Isabella was crowned Queen of Denmark and Norway and began using another version of her name, Elisabeth, but the relationship between her and her new family and Christian was quite cool during the first years of the marriage. ![]()
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