Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar
"Empress of Russia"
af Danmark
formerly of Denmark aka Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
Born in Kobenhaven, Kobenhaven, Denmark
Ancestors 
Daughter of Christian (Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg) af Danmark
and Louise Wilhelmine Friederike Caroline Auguste Julie (Hessen-Kassel) af Hessen-Kassel
Sister of
Frederik Christian Vilhelm Carl (Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg) Konge af Danmark, Alexandra Carolina Marie Charlotte Louise Julia (Denmark) av Danmark, Christian Vilhelm Ferdinand Adolf Georg Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Thyra Amalie Caroline Charlotte Anna (Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg) Danmark and Valdemar (Glücksborg) af Danmark
Wife of
Alexander III Александрович (Рома́нов) Романов III
— married
9 Nov 1866 (to 1 Nov 1894) in Imperial Chapel, Winter Palace, St Petersburg, Russia
Descendants 
Mother of
Николай Александрович (Romanov) Романов II, Ксения Александровна Романова, Михаи́л Александрович Романов and Olga Alexandrovna (Romanov) Kulikovsky
Died
at age 80
in København, Kobenhavn, Denmark
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Biography
Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar of Denmark was a member of the aristocracy in Europe.
Daughter of Christian IX Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and Louise Hessen-Kassel, Maria Feodorovna (26 November 1847 – 13 October 1928), christened Dagmar, was a Danish princess who became Empress of Russia as spouse of Emperor Alexander III. She was the second daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Cassel and sister of Britain's Queen Alexandra, and King George I of Greece. Among her children was the last Russian monarch, Emperor Nicholas II, whom she outlived by ten years.
Princess Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar was born at the Yellow Palace in Copenhagen. Her father was Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a member of a relatively impoverished princely cadet line. Her mother was Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel.
She was baptized into the Lutheran faith and named after her kinswoman Marie Sophie Fredrica of Hesse-Kassel, Queen Dowager of Denmark as well as the medieval Danish queen, Dagmar of Bohemia. Growing up, she was known by the name Dagmar. Most of her life, she was known as Maria Feodorovna (Russian: Мари́я Фёдоровна), the name which she took when she converted to Orthodoxy immediately before her 1866 marriage to the future Emperor Alexander III. She was known within her family as Minnie.
Dagmar was the daughter of Christian of Denmark and Louise Hesse Kassel Rumpenheim.
You can read more about her and see some wonderful photos here.
Sources
- Wikipedia:Maria_Feodorovna_(Dagmar_of_Denmark)
- Maria Fedorovna Romanov on Find A Grave: Memorial #15919288 Retrieved 6 sep 2016.
- Wikidata: Item Q153601
- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15919288/maria-fedorovna-romanov : accessed 03 July 2022), memorial page for Maria Fedorovna Romanov (26 Nov 1847–13 Oct 1928), Find a Grave Memorial ID 15919288, citing Saint Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russia ; Maintained by Find a Grave .
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
- Nicholas II (Romanov) Романов
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Mitochondrial DNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup T2a1a, MitoYDNA ID Z10200 [compare]
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Someone has created a duplicate profile for this person also with an incorrect LNAB - see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Federovna-1 , but it would be good to have her LNAB corrected before the merge takes place.
edited by John Atkinson