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COPENHAGEN.
Chap. XIV.
This acquittal did not, however, serve her much,
for she was deprived of her rank of Countess of
Slesvig-Holstein, no longer prayed for in the churches, and
banished to an old manor-house in Jutland, where
she was kept in a sort of imprisonment—iron bars to
her windows—with orders for the future to style herself
Mrs. Christina, of Boiler.
One of the arguments brought up against King
Christian at the trial by Corfitz Ulfekl was his connexion
with Vibeke Kruse, once tire-woman to Christina. From
this period Christian lived entirely with Vibeke, who,
though far from beautiful, won his sincere affection by
her gentle qualities. No sooner, however, was the King
dead, than the Munkites drove her out of the castle, and
demanded that she should be charged with “ calumny ”
against their mother; but we hear no more of her until,
on the following 6th of May, appears an entry in the
journal of Dr. Laurits Jacobsen, the king’s confessor :—
“ This day was the Lady Vibeke’s coffin interred in the
church outside the north gate of the city.” No grand
funeral for her; * though, in Dr. Matthisen’s ‘
Tegnebog,’ I find good proof that no one plied this
celebrated “ Liig predicaner ” with better things than poor
Vibeke. “ Roe and red deer, carp and salmon, tons of
apples, hams, large pike, pots of Rhine wine, wild geese,
even to a ‘ stalled ox,’ ” all which presents were
gratefully received, but she died too late, and got no funeral
sermon.
in favour of Christina Munk, as may be seen by his complaints in his
letters to the Chamber, 1647.
* One of the allegations against Ulfeld was that lie sent the body of
Vibeke to be interred at night in the cemetery outside the town
allotted to the poor.
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