Prince Erik, Count of Rosenborg
Prince Erik, Count of Rosenborg was a Danish royal family member. He was born at Copenhagen, the 3rd son of Prince Valdemar of Denmark and Princess Marie of Orléans.
Early life
Prince Erik was born on 8 November 1890, in the Yellow Palace, an 18th-century town house at 18 Amaliegade, immediately adjacent to the Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen. The third child of Prince Valdemar of Denmark and his wife Princess Marie of Orléans. His father was a younger son of King Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel, and his mother was the eldest daughter of Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres and Princess Françoise of Orléans. His parents' marriage was reputed to be a political match.Prince Erik was christened 10 days after his birth and his godparents were his paternal grandparents, King Christian IX and Queen Louise of Denmark; his paternal uncle and aunt, Tsar Alexander III of Russia and Empress Maria Feodorovna; and his paternal uncle and aunt, Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Louise of Denmark.
Later created Count of Rosenborg, Erik inherited the family estates.
Marriage and issue
As was then customary with Danish royalty, Erik renounced his rights to the throne when he chose to take a commoner as wife, marrying in Ottawa, Ontario, on 11 February 1924 Lois Frances Booth. His wife was the daughter of a kinsman of the Booth baronets, John Frederick Booth, who lived in Canada, and wife Frances Alberta Hunsicker, and paternal granddaughter of John Rudolphus Booth, the Father of Canada by his wife Rosalinda Cooke. Prince Erik and his wife divorced in 1937. Lois Countess of Rosenborg married secondly Gunnar Thorkild Juelsberg, by whom she had no issue.Erik and Lois had two children:
- Countess Alexandra Dagmar Frances Marie Margrethe of Rosenborg, feudal baron of Sanderumgaard Gods and Fraugde, married in Sankt Jacobs Kirke, Copenhagen, on 2 May 1951 to Ivar Emil |Vind-Röj, Tesdorpfske Fideikommis of Sanderumgaard and Bækkeskov, Royal Chamberlain, Master of the Court Hunt, son of Ove Holger Christian Vind, feudal baron of Sanderumgaard and Bækkeskov, Royal Chamberlain, Master of the Court Hunt, Second Lieutenant in the Royal Danish Army, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, feudal baron of Sanderumgaard Gods and Fraugde, by his wife, Elsa Mimi Adelaide Marie Oxholm, inscribed with a memorial tablet in Vallø Noble Diocese in Bækkeskov Gods, Tappernøje, Rønnede
- * Marie-Louise Frances Elisabeth Vind, married in Allerup Kirke on 7 April 1973 Count Christian Gustav Knuth af Christiansdal, feudal baron of Lilliendal Gods, Mern, son of Count Ulrik Gustav Adam Knuth, Royal Chamberlain, Court Huntsman, feudal baron of Lilliendal Gods and Mern, by his wife Baroness Tove Birgitte Bille-Brahe-Selby, and had two children:
- ** Countess Christina Elisabeth Knuth af Christiansdal, married in 2005 to Jacob Conrad Kamman
- ** Count Michael Ivar Knuth af Christiansdal
- * Erik Ove Carl John Emil Vind, married in Mahé, Seychelles, on 15 February 1993 Countess Suzanne Ingrid Jessie Dorthe Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille, lady-in-waiting to Princess Alexandra, sister of Count Michael Preben Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille and daughter of Count Claus Christian Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille, feudal baron of Havnø Gods, Hadsund, and second wife and third cousin Countess Merete-Anette Ahlefeldt-Laurvig, nurse
- ** Rosemarie Alexandra Kirsten Vind, fashion model
- ** Georg Ivar Emil Vind
- ** Nonni Margaretha Elsa Vind
- * Georg Christian Valdemar Vind, married in Kuwait City on 19 September 1993 to Maria Munk, distant cousin of Jacob Munch, Peter Andreas Munch and Edvard Munch
- ** Andreas Ivar Knud Holger Vind
- ** Clara Alexandra Vind, journalist at Ekstra Bladet, B.T. and Berlingske
- Count Christian Edward Valdemar Jean Frederik Peter of Rosenborg, Major in the Royal Danish Army; married at Stouby Kirke on 10 August 1962 Karin von Lüttichau, lady-in-waiting to Princess Benedikte of Denmark in Stensballe, Horsens,, daughter of Folmer von Lüttichau, Court Huntmaster, feudal baron of Daugaard, and wife Ingeborg Marie Saima Carl
- * Count Valdemar Erik Flemming Christian of Rosenborg, Lieutenant in the Guard Hussar Regiment, director of Maersk Broker, married on 29 June 1996 Charlotte Diane Isabelle Cruse, daughter of Roland Cruse and wife Annette Ingemann, paternal granddaughter of Emmanuel Henri Georges Cruse and wife and cousin Marguerite de Luze, daughter of Alfred de Luze and wife Sophie Cruse, great-granddaughter of Victor Adolphe Frédéric Cruse and wife Lucie Louise Amélie Durand-Dassier, and great-great-granddaughter of Jean-Christian Herman Cruse, son of Hans Wilhelm Herman Cruse and wife Anna Rebecka Emma Raake, and wife Suzanne Sophie Lawton, daughter of Henry Lawton and wife Henriette Balguerie de Chautard, paternal granddaughter of Guillaume Lawton and wife Marie de Raynaud, and great-granddaughter of Abraham Lawton and wife Charlotte de Selve
- ** Count Nicolai Christian Valdemar of Rosenborg
- ** Countess Marie Geraldine Charlotte of Rosenborg
- * Countess Marina Isabelle Ingeborg Karin of Rosenborg.