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Chap. XXVIII.
CHRISTIAN II.
Hepburn, now writes his cousin word to take refuge
in Scotland.
Then writes Kingome:—“James Beaton, Archbishop
of St. Andrew, would so much like to be made a
cardinal ; if King Christian could only procure his election
through the Pope and his brother-in-law the Emperor,
much good might ensue.” But Christian’s interest is
at a low ebb in those quarters; he is suspected of
hankering after “ Luthers lære and the Regent
Margaret has her eyes open and looks somewhat
askant; so his faithful spouse Elizabeth writes him
word. As soon as matters appear to be coming round,
they are all afloat again.
In the year 1526 dies Queen Elizabeth, and she is
hardly buried when it is proposed, in a letter from the
faithful Kingome, that Christian should, as a “ coup
d’etat,” espouse a half-sister of King James V., then
only fifteen years of age, daughter of our English
Princess Margaret Tudor and her husband the Earl of
Angus, whom she married, hated, and tried to get
divorced from. But this marriage never came off;
and, what is worse, help never came from Scotland.
Christian had, however, on his side, shuffled just as
much ; for when in earlier days his cousin, the King of
Scots, applied to him for aid against the English, he
pleaded, as an excuse, it would interfere with his
coronation.
There must have been jolly doings in this city of
Kallundborg in former times, if you judge from the
colossal drinking-cup now preserved in the Museum of
Copenhagen, before the quaffing of which no man could
be admitted as “brother” into the Guild of St. Knud.
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