Axel Gyntersberg
Axel Gyntersberg (* around 1525 ; † 1588 at Snilstveit farm in Kvinnherad ) was a Norwegian nobleman , commander of Steinvikholmen fortress and, most recently, liege lord of Helgeland .
Life
family
Gyntersberg came from a Norwegian branch of the Pomeranian family von Güntersberg . His parents were Heinrich Güntersberg († 1578) and Kirsten Lavesdatter († 1569). In 1556 he married Kirstine Trondsdatter Benkestok († 1572), with whom he had ten children. Gyntersberg was the father-in-law of Magnus Heinason (* 1545; † 1589). His only son Henrik , who reached adulthood, paid homage as the owner of Snilstvet in 1582, but does not seem to have survived his father.
An epitaph with sixteen ancestral coats of arms of Axel Gyntersberg , his wife and their ten children was in the church in Brønnøy , but was destroyed in a church fire in 1772. The Danish historian Terkel Klevenfeldt (* 1710; † 1777) describes the epitaph in his collection stored in the Imperial Archives in Copenhagen.
His alleged daughter Karen Gyntelberg was not included on the above epitaph . It can therefore be assumed that Karen was not a daughter of Kirstine Trondsdatter Benkestok . You will with that of Scotland coming royal Danish Admiral Anders Mowatt have been married († 1610/1611).
Career
By marriage, Gytersberg was the heir to Meløy , which he pledged in 1584 due to economic problems. In 1553 he received a fiefdom letter at Rein monastery, which he exchanged in 1560 for another post-Reformation ecclesiastical fiefdom at Bakke monastery with the appointment of commander at Steinviksholm fortress. He was in command from 1560 to 1564. In 1564 he had to evacuate the fortress from the Swedes in the Three Crowns War. Thereupon Gytersberg was captured for the surrender of the castle. The accusations of inadequate defense efforts and cooperation with the Swedes, i.e. high treason, were finally dispelled. The termination of the trial and his release were the result. Nevertheless, Gytersberg lost his fiefdom over Bakke, but received a new fiefdom over Torget at Brønnøy in 1665, which he was able to hold until 1571/1572, and then another over Helgeland for the years 1574 to 1577. In 1578 he was given the ecclesiastical jurisdiction in fief Stavanger entrusted. From 1583 Gytersberg lived on his farm Snilstvet in Kvinnherad, where he also died.
literature
- Danmarks nobility Aarbog . Copenhagen 1941, pp. 11–22 (Danish)
- Axel Gyntersberg . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 6 : Gerson-H. Hansen . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1892, p. 411-412 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
- Wilhelmine Brandt: Slægten Benkestok. Oslo 1997, pp. 18–19 (Norwegian)
Web links
- Axel Gyntersberg . In: Store norske leksikon (Norwegian)
- Mention of Axel Gyntersberg in the years 1552-72 in Absalon Pederssøn Beyer's diary (Norwegian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rigsarkivet i København, 860. Manuscript samlinger I, Terkel Klevenfeldt (1770–1777), adelsslægter, pakke 26, cover Gyntersberg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gyntersberg, Axel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Güntersberg, Axel; Gyntersberg, Axel Henrikson; Güntersberg, Axel von; Gyntersberg Aksel; Axel Gyntelberg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian nobleman, commander of Steinvikholmen fortress and liege lord of Helgeland |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1525 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1588 |
| Place of death | Snilstveit farm, Kvinnherad |