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Chap. XXXII.
THE REVENTLOW QUEEN.
59
another Jutland noble, by name Jens Lo venbalk.
The Broks demand vengeance against the murderer
from the great Queen Margaret, who orders a
reconciliation next year to take place in her presence at
Helsingborg.
She condemns the murderer to give his victim a
splendid funeral, which is to be attended by the members
of both families, to ’found an eternal mass for his
soul in St. Clement’s church of Aarhuus, and also to
send at his own expense six pilgrims to six different
holy places, Jerusalem and St. Iago in Spain among
the number; as well as nine more to the most
remarkable shrines in the North: that done, the culprit was
to be considered as whitewashed.
Clausholm afterwards came into possession of the
Grand Chancellor Reventlow, father of the queen, who
here died in 1708.
It was three years after the death of her father the
king first met the fair Anna at a royal masquerade at
Koldinghuus.* With Frederic it was love at first
sight; he at once declared his passion. Anna replied,
she must “ ask mamma,” and ask mamma she did, and
received a box on the ears for her comfort; for the
aged countess was a woman of high and honourable
principles. Six months later Frederic determined to visit
Anna at her mother’s house of Clausholm, where he
was received with great politeness by the widow of the
Grand Chancellor. The dinner concluded, he had the
vulgarity to leave a roll of 1000 ducats in his napkin,
* Frederic caused this meeting to bo commemorated by a charming
painted ceiling at Frederiksborg, representing the masquerade at
Koldinghuus.
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