Ulrik of Denmark (1611–1633)

Ulrich III
Duke Ulrik by Wolfgang Heimbach, Rosenborg Slot
Prince-Bishop of Schwerin
Reign	1624 – 1629
Predecessor	Ulrich II
Successor	Adolf Frederick
Born	(1611-02-02)2 February 1611 Frederiksborg Palace, Hillerød
Died	12 August 1633(1633-08-12) (aged 22) Schweidnitz
Burial	(1) 1634 (2) April? 1642 (1) Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen (2) Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde
House of	Oldenburg
Father	Christian IV of Denmark
Mother	Anne Catherine of Brandenburg
Religion	Lutheran

Prince Ulrik of Denmark, (2 February 1611 - 12 August 1633) was a son of King Christian IV of Denmark and his consort Queen Anne Catherine of Brandenburg. As the fourth-born son, he bore the merely titular rank of Duke of Holstein and Schleswig, Stormarn and Ditmarsh; however, he had no share in the royal-ducal condominial rule of Holstein and Schleswig, wielded by the heads of the houses of Oldenburg (royal) and its cadet branch Holstein-Gottorp (ducal). In 1624 Ulrik was appointed administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Schwerin as Ulrich III. However, in 1628 Wallenstein's conquest of the prince-bishopric de facto deposed him. His father had to renounce all his family claims to prince-bishoprics in 1629. When in 1631 Swedish forces reconquered the prince-bishopric Ulrik failed to reascend as administrator.

In 1617 Niels Frandsen, conrector in Roskilde, became the teacher of Duke Ulrik. A few years later Christian IV wielded his influence in order to provide his third-born son Frederick and Ulrik with prebendaries in Lutheran-ruled prince-bishoprics within the Holy Roman Empire.

In 1622 Ulrik received a canonicate at Bremen Cathedral chapter, where his brother Frederick had been appointed as coadjutor in September 1621, a function usually including the succession to the see. Also in 1622 Ulrik was elected coadjutor of the Prince-Bishopric of Schwerin, where his homonymous uncle served as Administrator Ulrich II. The plan to further provide him with the Pomeranian Prince-Bishopric of Cammin failed.