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MARIBO.
Chap. L.
to the only surviving son of Tove, Knud
Valdemar-søn, as he was called, he whose step-son followed him
to the war as squire and then murdered him.
An old document, dated 1417, mentions how on
Michaelmas Day the Bishop was summoned to
Vordingborg Slot, and there, together with King Erik,
Queen Philippa, their nobles, knights, &c., sealed the
grant of Ryse Gaard, in Zealand, to found a cloister in
Lolland, to be hereafter called “ Maribo,” in honour of
St. Bridget and the Holy Virgin. King Erik it was
who completed the cloister after the death of his
queen; every man, woman, and child in the country
had the honour of contributing to it. Each man for
himself and his household paid the sum of 2d., and for
each child eighteen years of age Id. Bachelors were
taxed, old maids were taxed; no one escaped. It was
a right royal foundation ; the king got the credit of it,
and the country paid the expenses.
Scarcely was the convent commenced when there
appeared in the heavens every night a wondrous
luminary over the forest which Queen Margaret had herself
purchased of Jens Grim, and paid for as a site for the
building, which was regarded as a clear proof Jomfru
Marie wished to take up her abode there; so St. Bridget
had to give way and appear second on the list. “ Beata
Brigita vidua,” St. Bridget the Widow—of the Brahe
family—was a noble Swedish lady, mother to four sons
and four daughters. As soon as her husband died she
was seized with a desire to visit Rome, feeling sure
that the foundress of Vadstena would be well received
by the pope. When sixty-seven years of age she
travelled to the Holy Land, accompanied by her daughter
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