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Aldenburg. He was a brave officer and a capable official. As Viceroy of
Norway he ruled well, defended the peasants against extortion, and tried
in every way to strengthen the autonomy of the country. He is still
mentioned with affection as the best friend the common people in
Norway had during the union with Denmark. He retired upon the death
of his half-brother, Christian the Fifth, and went to spend the rest of
his days in Hamburg, where he died in 1704, sixty-three years old.
His body was brought to Copenhagen in a war-ship and buried in Vor
Frue Church. The portrait of him at Frederiksborg shows great
physical and mental vigor marred by a certain grossness and sensuality.
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In a boat sat Phyllis fair. A pastoral song translated from the German
and very popular at the time.
Page 55.
Ulrik Christian Gyldenlöve was the son of Christian the Fourth and
Vibeke Kruse, and hence the half-brother of Frederik the Third, and
the uncle of Ulrik Frederik Gyldenlöve, whose senior he was by eight
years. When only seventeen years old, he went abroad and served in
Spain under Condé. He was called home to take part in the war against
the Swedes and acquitted himself brilliantly. His entire fortune was
spent in the cause. During the siege of Copenhagen, he seemed to
embody in himself all that youthful enthusiasm and patriotism which
made victory possible, and he naturally became a popular idol. He
died during the early months of the siege, only twenty-eight years old.
The death-bed repentance, which Jacobsen has used with such
dramatic effect, is historical. His portrait, painted by Abraham Wuchters,
hangs in Rosenborg Castle. It shows a pleasing, rather pensive
countenance, not at all what one would expect in the rough, profligate
soldier, and no doubt it suggested to Jacobsen the sympathetic
description of Ulrik Christian as he appeared to Marie Grubbe in Mistress
Rigitze’s parlor.
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Corjitz Ulfeldt was married to Christian the Fourth’s favorite daughter,
the beautiful and gifted Eleonore Christine, and was the leader of the
“son-in-law” party in the upper nobility. Frederik the Third disliked
him, and there is no doubt that he tried to deliver his countrymen into
the hands of the Swedes. He was sentenced for treason, in 1663, and
was beheaded in effigy; his house in Copenhagen was levelled with
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