From 1516, was head of her court.In 1520, Christian took the throne of Sweden, thereby making Isabella Queen of 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.Īfter 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. Isabella served as the regent of Denmark during Christian's stay in Sweden. Her husband was deposed as king of Sweden the following year. 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. 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. But Isabella wrote back to Duke Frederick in, stating that: 'ubi rex meus, ibi regnum meum', that is 'where my king is, there is my kingdom'.Exile Isabella left Denmark with her husband and their children after her husband was deposed in 1523 and travelled to the Netherlands.Budget: TRL4, estimated.
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