[11][12], After the French defeat in the Napoleonic Wars in 1814 and the loss of the Norwegian crown, Frederick VI carried through an authoritarian and reactionary course, giving up the liberal ideas of his years as a prince regent. This resulted in two British attacks on Copenhagen, the Battle of Copenhagen of 1801 and the Battle of Copenhagen of 1807. I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
He was married to Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and was the father of Frederick V. Louise of Great Britain (originally Louisa; 18 December 1724 – 19 December 1751) was Queen of Denmark and Norway from 1746 until her death, as the first wife of King Frederick V. Else Hansen (Cathrine Marie Mahs Hansen) also called de Hansen (1720 – 4 September 1784), was the royal … The king died at the age of forty-two, after a twenty-year reign. According to Dorothea Biehl's statements the king was often seen in a condition "where his arm was not strong enough to bring his hat on his head again without Moltke 's help." Frederick and Louise immediately ascended Denmark-Norway's throne, being anointed in Frederiksborg Palace's Chapel the following year. Neither did the formal princess appeal to his own taste, and with the court she was never popular - with no other identifiable cause than her sense of rigid etiquette, practised in German princely courts, that may have seemed less friendly than the English Louise. On 1 August 1771, five years after the king's death, an equestrian statue of Frederick V dressed in the garb of a Roman emperor by the French sculptor Jacques François Joseph Saly was unveiled at Amalienborg Square in Copenhagen. Pages using infobox royalty with unknown parameters, Commons category with local link different than on Wikidata, File:King Frederik V denmark as a child..jpg, File:Christian VI with his family by Marcus Tuscher ca 1744.jpg, Duchess Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, succession crisis beginning from his grandson's reign, Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Gustav Adolf, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Frederick III, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Margrave George Albert of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Margrave Christian Heinrich of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Princess Marie Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, https://historipediaofficial.wikia.org/wiki/Frederick_V_of_Denmark?oldid=14810, 14.
On 23rd February 1827,[14] he granted a Royal Charter[15] giving Serampore College in Danish India the status of a university to confer degrees. Template:Monarchs of Norway. He had been a pleasant change compared to the pious Christian VI's autocracy, and when Frederick died there were many who mourned. "Prudentia et Constantia" (By prudence and steadfastness) was the motto he chose for his reign. He was the grandson of King Frederick IV of Denmark and the son of Crown Prince Christian and Sophia Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.
As an active Freemason, he set up on 24 June 1749 the first Masonic lodge in Norway.[1]. Both were ideologically influenced by Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire and Jean Jacques Rousseau. He was the surviving son of the second marriage of King Frederick V of Denmark (1723-1766) with Juliana Maria of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1729-1796). Meanwhile, Frederick continued to enjoy random liaisons with others. Christian VI was interred in Roskilde Cathedral.
Art and science prospered under his reign, and although he wasn't personally interested in cultural affairs, the public entertainment and freedom of expression that had been banned under the pietistic hypocrisy (characterized during his father's reign) was again permitted. These men marked his reign by the progress of commerce and the emerging industry of gunpowder plant and cannon foundry in Frederiksværk, built by Johan Frederik Classen. He had been a pleasant change compared to the pious Christian VI's autocracy, and when Frederick died there were many who mourned.