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Christopher is probably better known as Christopher of Bavaria. He was born in 1416 and died in 1448. He was elected King of Denmark in 1439 after his uncle Eric VII (or Eric of Pomerania) was deposed.

Christopher’s claim to the Danish throne was through his mother Catherine, who was the sister of Eric VII. Through his father (John Count Palatine of Neumarkt), Christopher was a member of a cadet branch of the House of Wittelsbach. Christopher was also elected as King of Sweden (1441) and Norway (1442), so he was one of the Kalmar Union kings.

Christopher married Dorothea of Brandenburg (1430 -1495) in Copenhagen in 1445. They had no children. Christopher died unexpectedly in Helsingborg in 1448.