Titular Queen and Claimant
In Lorraine, Christina served as advisor to her son and acted as his regent whenever he was absent. At the same time, she styled herself the rightful "Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden". In late 1550s and 1560s, the adventurer Wilhelm von Grumbach and his allies, who occasionally included Peder Oxe, attempted to dethrone her second cousin king Frederick II of Denmark in Christina's favor. Christina also conspired to marry her daughter Renata to Frederick II of Denmark in about 1560, and then to Eric XIV of Sweden in an alliance against Denmark during the war between Denmark and Sweden in 1563-1570. All of these efforts came to nothing.
In 1578, she left for Tortona in Italy, a fief given to her by her first husband, were she lived to her death styled as "Madame of Tortona".
Her son was Charles III, Duke of Lorraine, namesake of her uncle, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Her daughter, Renata of Lorraine, married William V, Duke of Bavaria, and it is through her that the current Danish, Norwegian and Swedish royal families are descended.
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