Family and Children
In 10 April 1502 he married Anna of Brandenburg (15 years old; the daughter of his mother's half-brother; 1487–1514). The couple had two children:
- Christian, the future duke and king (12 August 1503 – 1 January 1559)
- Dorothea (1 August 1504 – 11 April 1547), married 1 July 1526 to Duke Albert of Prussia.
Frederick's wife Anna died on 5 May 1514, 26 years old.
Four years later,on 9 October 1518 at Kiel, Frederick married Sophie of Pomerania (20 years old; 1498–1568), a daughter of Duke Bogislaw "the Great" of Pomerania. Sophie and Frederick had six children:
- Duke Hans the Elder of Schleswig-Holstein-Haderslev (28 June 1521 – 2 October 1580)
- Elizabeth (14 October 1524 – 15 October 1586), married:
- on 26 August 1543 to Duke Magnus III of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- on 14 February 1556 to Duke Ulrich III of Mecklenburg-Güstrow
- Duke Adolf of Holstein-Gottorp (25 January 1526 – 1 October 1586)
- Anna (1527 – 4 June 1535)
- Dorothea (1528 – 11 November 1575), married on 27 October 1573 to Duke Christof of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
- Prince-Bishop Friedrich of Hildesheim and Bishop of Schleswig (13 April 1532 – 27 October 1556).
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