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Lüttichau family, and the owners have taken care to keep up and extend
the fine old garden. A lane of shade trees leads up to the entrance.
Erik Grubbe came of an old noble family and received a good
education, which included foreign travel. He inherited large holdings of
land, which his forbears had taken from the peasants by fair means
or foul, and he devoted his life to increasing his estates. As lensmand
in Aarhus, he gained an unsavory reputation for profligacy as well
as for harshness and avarice. In 1651, he retired from the service of
the Crown and went to spend the remainder of his long life at Tjele.
His wife, Marie Juul, had died four years earlier, leaving him the two
daughters, Anne Marie and Marie. At Tjele, Erik Grubbe took as
concubine a peasant woman, Anne Jensdaughter, who bore him a
daughter, Anne. He lies buried at Tjele.
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Gyldenlöve was the name bestowed by four successive Danish kings on
their illegitimate children.
Rigitze Grubbe was a distant cousin of Erik Grubbe. She married
Hans Ulrik Gyldenlöve, a natural son of Christian the Fourth, and
after his death lived many years as a widow in Copenhagen. It is
thought that Marie Grubbe may have visited her there. In 1678, she
was banished for life to the island of Bornholm for an attempt at
poisoning a noblewoman, Birgitte Skeel.
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Ulrik Frederik. See note under page 41.
Page 40.
Ulrik Christian Gyldenlöve was a member of the war party, made up
chiefly of the younger nobility. See note under page 55.
Page 41.
Ulrik Frederik Gyldenlöve was the son of Frederik the Third and
Margrethe Pappen. His marriage to Sofie Urne during the siege of
Copenhagen and his marriage to Marie Grubbe shortly afterwards, without
dissolving the first contract, are historical. It has been surmised that
the King, his father, may not have been aware that the first marriage
actually took place. Gyldenlöve did not acknowledge Sofie Urne’s two
sons until more than twenty years later, and of Sofie herself we hear
no more except that she died in retirement, in 1714. Ulrik Frederik
divorced Marie Grubbe, in 1670, for her alleged relations with Sti Högh,
and afterwards married the Countess Antonette Augusta of
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