Anne Meinstrup

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Anne Meinstrup (after her first marriage also Anne Holgers ; * approx. 1475; † January 20, 1535 in Ringsted on Zealand ) was a Danish noblewoman and landowner. The chief stewardess of three Danish queens was murdered during the count's feud .

Life

Grave slab with full picture of Anne Meinstrup in Hornslet Kirke

Anne Meinstrup was the daughter of Henrik Meinstrup († 1496) and Margrethe Christiansdatter Daa († 1497). Her father was a judge in Ringsted. Probably the only child of her parents, she received an exceptionally good education for a woman of her time, which also included administration and law. In 1491 she became the second wife of the Reichsrat Holger Eriksen Rosenkrantz (1455–1496), the owner of Gut Boller near Horsens , with whom she had four children. After the death of her first husband in 1496, she married Jørgen Ahlefeldt , who died in the Battle of Hemmingstedt in 1500 . She had no children from the second marriage. Orphaned and widowed in her mid-twenties, she managed the property inherited from her parents and husbands on her own. The correspondence which she conducted about the inheritance of her husbands has been preserved.

In 1503 she became court master of King John's wife Christina of Saxony . In 1507 she lent money to the king and received Højstrup on Stevns as a fief . In 1516 she was appointed chief stewardess to Isabella of Austria , the wife of Christian II. However, she left the royal court in 1517, because King Christian expelled her and confiscated her property because of her criticism of his relationship with his lover Dyveke Sigbritsdatter and her influential mother . Until Christian's fall in 1523 she stayed in the Duchy of Holstein and in Lübeck . After her return, she took over her previous office with Sophia , the second wife of the new King Frederick I , and got her goods back.

After King Frederick's death she supported the aristocracy party, which Frederick's son's first marriage, Duke Christian , rejected as king. After the feud of the counts broke out in 1534, she allied herself with Christoph von Oldenburg , who confirmed her ownership of Højstrup and assured her of further territories, including Sæbygaard , a court of the Bishop of Børglum . Her son Holger Holgersen Rosenkrantz joined Duke Christian's side. On October 16 of the same year he fell as the leader of an aristocratic army in the battle of Svenstrup in North Jutland against skipper Clements five times larger peasant army. Anne withdrew to Vallø with two grandchildren from the marriage of her daughter Else with the late royal secretary Albert Glob , constantly in fear of plundering farmers who had already burned down their Valsøgaard estate near Ringsted. At the end of 1534 the nobles on Scania , including Axel Brahe (1480–1550), the husband of Anne Meinstrup's younger daughter Sophie Holgersdatter Rosenkrantz, rose up against Christoph von Oldenburg. In January 1535, Anne Meinstrup was the only noblewoman to attend a meeting in Ringsted, to which Count Christoph had called. At this meeting she gave an angry speech against the plundering mob, whereupon she was slain by two Copenhageners. The murder of a woman angered contemporaries. Her murderers were exempted from the amnesty and executed after the capitulation of Copenhagen in 1536 .

Anne Meinstrup was initially buried in the St. Bendts Church of the Benedictine monastery in Ringsted. After Jørgen Rosenkrantz, the grandson of her first husband from his first marriage, bought Rosenholm Castle in 1559 , he had his ancestors, including Anne Meinstrup, reburied in his patron church in Hornslet , the new burial place of the Rosenkrantz family. Your tombstone is still preserved. Jørgen's son was the imperial councilor, theologian and educator Holger Rosenkrantz, known as "lærde Holger" in the first half of the 17th century .

progeny

From her first marriage to Holger Eriksen Rosenkrantz (1455–1496) Anne Meinstrup had four children:

  • Else Holgersdatter Rosenkrantz († 1564) ∞ Albert Glob von Vellumgaard († 1518)
  • Sophie Holgersdatter Rosenkrantz (1493–1558) ∞ after 1525 Axel Axelsen Brahe (1480–1551), Imperial Councilor
  • Mogens Holgersen Rosenkrantz
  • Holger Holgersen Rosenkrantz (* 1496; † October 16, 1534 at the Battle of Svenstrup near Hornum ) ∞ Karen Jepsdatter Friis (1496–1565)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letter from Anne Meinstrup to Sophie, the daughter of her Anne Rud († 1533) with Henrik Krummedike , from December 19, 1534. In: Merry Wiesner Hanks, Monica Chojnacka: Ages of Woman, Ages of Man: Sources in European Social History, 1400-1750 , p. 222f .
  2. ↑ Ridebanen og Valsøgård - en historisk localitet (pdf, accessed on March 12, 2018)
  3. ↑ James L. Larson: Reforming the North: The Kingdoms and Churches of Scandinavia, 1520-1545 . Cambridge 2010, p. 341
  4. ↑ Anne Meinstrup on ringstedhistorie.dk (Danish)
  5. ↑ https://finnholbek.dk/getperson.php?personID=I5131&tree=2
personal data
SURNAME Meinstrup, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chief Chamberlain to three Danish queens
DATE OF BIRTH around 1475
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1535
Place of death Ringsted