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Borringholm, the expense to be borne by me, in order that
the wrath and visitation of God may be upon her as a
disobedient creature, a warning unto others, and her own
soul possibly unto salvation. Had I not been hard pressed,
I should not have made so bold as to come before You with
this supplication, but I live in the most humble hope of
Your Royal Majesty’s most gracious answer, acknowledgment,
and aid, which God shall surely reward. I live and
die
Your Royal Majesty’s
Most humble and most devoted
true hereditary subject
ERIK GRUBBE.
Tjele, August 14, 1690.
The King desired a statement in the matter from the
Honorable Palle Dyre, and this was to the effect that Marie
did not conduct herself toward him as befitted an honest
wife, wherefore he petitioned the King to have the marriage
annulled without process of law. This was not granted,
and the couple were divorced by a decree of the court, on
March twenty-third, sixteen hundred and ninety-one. Erik
Grubbe’s supplication that he might lock her up and
disinherit her was also refused, and he had to content
himself with keeping her a captive at Tjele, strictly guarded
by peasants, while the trial lasted, and indeed it must be
admitted that he was the last person who had any right to
cast at her the stone of righteous retribution.
As soon as judgment had been pronounced, Marie left
Tjele with a poor bundle of clothes in her hand. She met
Sören on the heath to the south, and he became her third
husband.
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