Background
When John was one year old, his mother gave birth to twin boys, Philip Ferdinand and Maximilian, who both died within a year.
When John was one year old, his mother gave birth to twin boys, Philip Ferdinand and Maximilian, who both died within a year.
He also had two younger sisters, Dorothea, the future Electress of the Palatinate, and Christina, the future Duchess of Lorraine. At the beginning of 1532, John"s father went to Oslo in an attempt to persuade the Riksråd (National Council of Norway) to recognize John as the rightful Heir to the Throne and to afterwards crown him as the next King of Norway. Meanwhile, the Emperor took John to Regensburg, then a Free Imperial City in Bavaria.
He was undoubtedly meant to play a role in Habsburg politics, but died on 11 August at Charles"s house in Regensburg.
He was buried in Saint Peter"s Abbey in Ghent, also in the Habsburg Netherlands, but his remains were exhumed and transported to Saint Canute"s Cathedral in Odense, Denmark, in 1883. He is portrayed as gifted and intelligent, capable of running a country.
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