Claus Daa
Claus Olufsen Daa (born August 6, 1579 in Ravnstrup, † March 30, 1641 in Fraugdegaard) was a Danish admiral and statesman .
Life
Claus was a member of the Danish aristocratic family Daa. His parents were Oluf Clausen Daa til Ravnstrup (1547–1600) and Dorthe Henriksdatter, née Friis af Hesselager (1543–1618). He married Dorthe Henriksdatter Below (1588–1609) in Århus in 1604 . As a widower, he married Ingeborg Valdemarsdatter Parsberg (1592–1641) in Viborg in 1613 . The two marriages resulted in a total of seven children.
Daa attended school in Sorø since 1587 . He began his Grand Tour in 1591, stops in Ghent , he was in Herborn (1593) and Genoa . On the occasion of Christian IV's coronation celebrations in 1596, he was in Denmark, but then went to Basel (1597) and Speyer (1598).
From 1600 to 1603 he stayed at the royal court. 1609 became ensign in the Jutland aristocratic flag. He took part in the Kalmark War and was promoted to Rittmeister . From 1623 until his death he was the Danish Imperial Admiral . In 1625 he became Reichsrat and in 1626 he was war commissioner and envoy to the peace meeting in Braunschweig . He was sent to The Hague in 1631 to mediate between the States General and Spain and in 1632 was envoy to the Rendsburg state parliament . Daa was also Commissioner General of Zealand . In 1633 he became a Knight of the Elephant Order .
Daa had extensive estates . Dragsholm Castle , which he received as a fiefdom in 1624 , he had Steenwinckel the younger repaired. On Zealand, Holmegård, whose current main building he built in 1635, owned Ravnstrup and Borreby , on Funen he was lord of Fraugdegård and in Jutland on Bonderup. He is buried in the Herlufmagle Church .
literature
- JA Fridericia: Daa, Claus . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 4 : Clemens – Eynden . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1890, p. 127–128 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
- Steffen Heiberg: Claus Daa . In: Svend Cedergreen Bech , Svend Dahl (eds.): Dansk biografisk leksikon . Founded by Carl Frederik Bricka , continued by Povl Engelstoft. 3. Edition. tape 3 : Brüggeman – Dolmer . Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1979, ISBN 87-01-77383-6 (Danish, biografiskleksikon.lex.dk ).
Web links
- Mr. Claus Daa, til Ravnstrup og Holmegaard at finnholbek.dk (Danish).
- Claus Olufsen Daa on Skeel & Kannegaard Genealogy (Danish).
Individual evidence
- ^ H. Hiort-Lorenzen: Daa - Claus D. til Raunstrup, Borreby mm (1579–1641) . In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 5 : Cikorie – Demersale . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1916, p. 401-402 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
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SURNAME | Daa, Claus |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Daa, Claus Olufsen (full name, with customary patronymic of the time and place) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish admiral and statesman |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1579 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ravnstrup |
DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1641 |
Place of death | Fraugdegaard |