Mogens Ulfeldt

Mogens Ulfeldt (born April 22, 1569 in Selsø, † June 15, 1616 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish admiral and statesman .

Life

Origin and family

Mogens was a member of the Danish noble family Ulfeldt. The Danish Imperial Councilor Jakob Ulfeldt (1535–1593) and Anna Jacobsdatter, née Flemming (1544–1570) were his parents. He married Anne Munk in Roskilde in 1597 . The marriage had three children, including the sons Jakob Ulfeldt († 1671/1674), Danish Councilor and Chancellor, and Corfitz Ulfeldt († 1644), Danish Schoutbynacht . Corfitz Ulfeldt (1606–1664), husband of the king's daughter to the left Leonora Christina (1621–1698), was his nephew.

Career

Ulfeldt studied from 1582 to 1586, with interruptions in Jena (1583) and Leipzig , in Wittenberg . After a short stay in Denmark, his Grand Tour went through Austria , Hungary and Italy, where he enrolled at the universities of Padua (1587) and Siena (1588). Immediately afterwards he went to Malta to join the fight of the Order of St. John against the Turks .

Back in Denmark he was first court junker to Christian IV from 1590 to 1594. In 1599 he was vice-captain on a ship that operated on the North Sea . Already in 1602 he was admiral of the naval department for Narva and on the king's giant to England in 1606 he was sub-admiral. From 1609 to 1616 he was the Danish Imperial Admiral . He was responsible for the Danish fleet on the Baltic Sea during the first half of the Polish-Swedish War , when the Swedish fleet developed its dominance. He was one of those councilors who did not support the Kalmark War . During the war in 1611 he was able to block the Swedish fleet briefly on Kalmarsund , conquered Öland in 1612 and sailed with the king off Stockholm , where there was no battle. He died suddenly after a serious illness.

Since 1593 Selsø was his family estate, inherited from his father . In 1600 he received Kronborg Castle as a fief , which he exchanged for Kristianopel and Sölvesborg in 1604 . In 1612 he acquired the rule of Villand in exchange for Tranekær . He also bought the Tvis and Krogsdal monastery in West Jutland and a farm in Løvstræde near Copenhagen.

Ulfeldt was buried in the Holy Spirit Church in Copenhagen.

literature

• JA Fridericia: Ulfeldt, Mogens . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 18 : Ubbe – Wimpffen . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1904, p. 46-47 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
• Henry Bruun, Leo Tandrup: Mogens Ulfeldt . In: Svend Cedergreen Bech , Svend Dahl (eds.): Dansk biografisk leksikon . Founded by Carl Frederik Bricka , continued by Povl Engelstoft. 3. Edition. tape 15 : Treschow – Wold . Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1984, ISBN 87-01-77513-8 (Danish, biografiskleksikon.lex.dk ).

Web links

• Mogens Ulfeldt at finnholbek.dk (Danish).
• Mogens Ulfeldt on Skeel & Kannegaard Genealogy (Danish).

Individual evidence

1. ^ PBG: Ulfeldt . In: Johannes Brøndum-Nielsen, Palle Raunkjær (ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 24 : Tyskland – Vertere . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1928, p. 214-218 (Danish, runeberg.org ).