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254
ODENSE.
Chap. XLVII.
last, another Elizabeth, known to readers of Carlyle—
Elizabeth married to the Elector of
Brandenburg—-Protestant-ways inclined—caught by one of her
numerous daughters tripping in her creed, receiving the
communion in both kinds. “ I’ll brick her up,” roared
her husband, in his ire. Elizabeth was too good a
Lutheran not to hate bread and water; so off she sets,
with not a change of linen to her back—mends her
broken axle-tree with her veil—travels night and day
till she gains the dominions of her neighbour the
Protestant Duke of Saxony, and never returns to her
husband more. Joachim declared he meant nothing;
but as his wife was well out of his reach, it was all
very fine—she for one never believed him. There
she bends — nice-looking, with plaited tresses—the
only representation of her extant in the Danish
dominions.*
as matters grow worse, their communication becomes more and more
frequent: les petites miseres de la vie humaine are all forgotten ; they
are bound together by one interest—their own and that of their
children.
One serious tiff Christian did have with Elizabeth, and that appears
the only one. He secretly put to death her chamberlain Maximilian,
who had come with her from the Netherlands, and of whom he is
supposed to have been jealous. He also turned off her grande maitresse
and her confessor.
All King Christian’s letters to his consort are written “paa papir,”
not parchment, and sealed either with red or grønl vox.
In 1526 dies Queen Elizabeth, and is buried in her native city of
Ghent, and the last we hear of her is the account given of sums paid to
Jean de Mabuse, who is charged with the erection of her monument.
* Such a writing as went on in the family at the period of her
escapade and for some time after was never known, but can be all seen in
the correspondence of King Christian. Old Joachim writes to his
beloved brother-in-law, and expresses his utmost astonishment at so
unheard-of a proceeding. “ He can’t understand it; she had no grounds
to fear; why should she suspect him of bad motives ? ” Then comes a
correspondence with the Duke of Saxony, to and from, asking and pro-
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