Editing Frederick II of Denmark (section)

=== Upbringing ===
While [[Christian III of Denmark|Christian III]] secured control of Denmark and Norway, his and [[Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg|Dorothea's]] children grew up in the bosom of the family. In addition to [[Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony|Anna]], who was born in 1532, and Frederik from 1534, the group of siblings consisted of [[Magnus, Duke of Holstein|Magnus]], born 1540, and [[John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg|John]], who was born in 1545 and called [[John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg|John the Younger]], to distinguish him from Christian III's half-brother, [[John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Haderslev|John the Elder]]. Youngest was [[Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg|a girl]] who was born in 1546 and named after her mother.<ref name=":3" />

It was the usual pedagogical view of the time that parents were so inclined to spoil their own children that the upbringing of the children should be delegated to other members of the family,<ref name=":5">''Grinder-Hansen, Poul, section 4-page 1''</ref> typically the child's maternal grandparents. But [[Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg|Queen Dorothea]] didn't want to send the children away when in [[Infant|infancy]]. Moreover, [[Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg|her own mother]] was suspected of nurturing Catholic sympathies, and in the religious era, a Lutheran Danish king could not in good conscience expose his child to Catholic influences. Another contributing factor has probably been the royal couple's concern by leaving the children too much out of sight in the tense political situation that prevailed in the first ten years of Frederik's life.<ref name=":5" />