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Chap. XIV.
TRIAL OF CHRISTINA MUNK.
213
may see the whole family group complete, amongst
whom appear Ulfeld and his wife Eleanora.
It was in the garden of Rosenborg that Christian first
assembled his council, as well as his family, his
mother-in-law, old Ellen Marsviin, and the children of Christina
herself, and made known to them the nineteen points on
which he thought fit to accuse Christina. Hannibal
Sehes-ted,* his son-in-law, and Corfitz Ulfeld, who afterwards
married his daughter Eleanor, the two best speakers of
the day, were deputed as advocates, the latter for the
defence, the former for King Christian. They grew so
excited, that, ere long, both were engaged in a pitched
battle before the Court-house. As for the proceedings
and the accusation made before Christina’s mother and
her children, no historian has ever been able to make
head or tail of it. Everybody spoke at the same time, and
the continued exclamations of “ Grandmamma,” “Your
Majesty,” “ Lady Ellen,” interrupting each other, renders
the whole affair a confusion; but, when the trial was
over, Christina was found “ not guilty.” t
* There is a good portrait of Hannibal Sehested by Carl van
Man-der, engraved by Haalwech. Sehested was son of the Chancellor
Sehested, at one time ambassador, together with Jørgen Brahe, to
King James I., when they got into a quarrel, about precedence,
with the envoy of the Duke of Savoy. The Danes held out; and it
was said at Court they were foolish to make a disturbance at the very
time their sovereign was sadly in want of friends. Both ambassadors
dined with the King at Havering, and were served by the officers of
the King’s guard, to whom they gave ten gold pieces, and they, on
their side, received from the King a present of 200 gold ounces.
Hannibal was sent as ambassador to Charles H., who wrote a long letter
in his praise to King Frederic IV. He found favour also in the eyes
of the great Louis himself, who created him a Count of France, with
leave to add to his arms, on a “ chief azur, three fleurs-de-lys or.” He
was later employed (16G4) to conclude a treaty of peace between
England and Holland.
f Christian IV. never forgave Corfitz Ulfeld his successful pleading
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