Albert Skeel

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Imperial Admiral Albret Skeel

Albert Skeel ( Danish Albret Skeel ; born November 23, 1572 at Fussingø Castle; † April 9, 1639 at Riberhus Castle ) was a Danish admiral and statesman .

Life

Origin and family

Albert was a member of the Danish noble family Skeel . He was a son of the Christian Skeel (1543–1595) and Margrethe Ottesdatter, née Brahe (1551–1614). He married Berte Nielsdatter Friis af Hesselager (1583–1652) in 1601. The marriage had eight children.

Career

Epitaph for Albert Skeel in Ribe Cathedral

Skeel completed his school education in Viborg from the age of 9 . He then completed his Grand Tour since 1586 with stops at the University of Strasbourg (1586–1587), the University of Padua (1590), the University of Siena and two subsequent years in France .

After his return to Denmark, Skeel became court junker to Christian IV in 1594 and accompanied him to the court of the Elector of Brandenburg in 1597 on his courtship . He then accompanied Duke Ulrich from 1597 to 1598 as court master on his tour to France, England and Scotland . On that occasion he enrolled at the University of Orléans . After his return he was a court clerk until 1601. In 1599 he drove as captain of the ship with the king to the North Cape and in 1600 as sub-admiral on the aborted voyage to Akershus . He was in command of Riberhus Castle from 1601 to 1627 and again from 1629 to 1639. In 1603 he accompanied the king to Hamburg and during his trip to England in 1606 he was his marshal . As Rittmeister , he carried the aristocratic flag of Ribe in 1609 . He could in the Kalmar War already distinguished 1611, took on the most successful storm fortress Älvsborg part and was in 1614 the War Department . In recognition of his services in the war, he became a Knight of the Væbnede Arms Order and Danish Imperial Admiral in 1616 . In the conflicts of the 1620s between the king and the Reichsrat , especially to compensate for the loss of territory to Sweden in Schleswig - Holstein , he acted as a successful mediator in his admiral function. He was entrusted with diplomatic missions in 1618 to Gottorp and in 1620 to Bremen . In 1620 he led the Danish fleet into the North Sea as a show of force against the Netherlands , but after disagreements with the king in 1623 he gave up his highest office to Claus Daa . As a Danish negotiator, he was one of the architects of the much-praised Lübeck Peace .

Skeel retired to his estates and invested his profits there from the sale of grain and logging. As a shipowner and wholesaler, he actively participated in the salt and foreign trade, and in 1625 deposited 20,000 Reichstaler with the East India Company . Skeel was the heir to the Danish estates of Holbækgaard (since 1613), Fusingø (since 1617), Katholm (from 1616 to 1630), Hessel (since 1623), Lergrav (since 1638) and Hegnet (since 1639). He was buried on May 1, 1639 in Ribe Cathedral.

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  1. ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (Hrsb.): New general German nobility Lexicon . Volume 8, Leipzig 1868, pp. 108-109 ( books.google.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Skeel, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skeel, Albret (Danish)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish admiral and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1572
PLACE OF BIRTH Fussingø Castle
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1639
Place of death Riberhus Castle