John of Denmark (Danish: Hans; 21 February 1518 – 11 August 1532) was the eldest child of King Christian II and Queen Isabella of Denmark and Norway.

During the years of their exile, John and his family led a relatively humble life in the city of Lierre (now Lier, Flanders, Belgium) in the Duchy of Brabant of the Habsburg Netherlands, waiting for the military help of John's maternal uncle, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.[citation needed] At the beginning of 1532, John's father went to Oslo in an attempt to persuade the Riksråd (National Council of Norway) to recognize John as the rightful Heir to the Throne and to afterwards crown him as the next King of Norway.

Meanwhile, the Emperor took John to Regensburg, then a Free Imperial City in Bavaria.

He was undoubtedly meant to play a role in Habsburg politics (as the eldest grandson of Philip the Handsome, though posthumous), but died on 11 August at Charles's house in Regensburg.

[citation needed] He was buried in St. Peter's Abbey in Ghent, also in the Habsburg Netherlands, but his remains were exhumed and transported to St. Canute's Cathedral in Odense, Denmark, in 1883.