A member of this house commissioned three life-sized silver lions to guard a "throne-chair" legendarily made of unicorn horn.
A ruler from this house gave Theodore Reinking, the author of an anti-monarchical book, the option of either being executed or literally eating his words, so Reinking boiled his book into a soup and ate it. A member of this house commissioned three life-sized silver lions to guard a "throne-chair" legendarily made of unicorn horn. A ruler from this house tried to conquer the kingdom of his insane cousin in a lesser-known Seven Years' War. A king from this house lost the Battle of Lutter while aiding Lower Saxon forces during the Emperor's War, a theater of the Thirty Years' War. A cadet branch of this house, (*) Holstein-Gottorp, ruled Sweden until 1818. For 10 points, name this European royal family including many Fredericks and Christians, as well as the current monarchs of Denmark and Norway.
A ruler from this house gave Theodore Reinking, the author of an anti-monarchical book, the option of either being executed or literally eating his words, so Reinking boiled his book into a soup and ate it.
House of Oldenburg