Nils Lykke

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Nils Lykke (* around 1492 in Denmark; † December 24, 1535 ) was a member of the Norwegian Imperial Council.

Family and youth

His parents were the Reichsrat Joachim Lykke and his second wife Maren Bille. In 1528 he married Eline Nilsdatter in Nyborg , daughter of the master court master Nils Henriksson from the Gyldenlöve family and his wife Ingerd Ottesdotter . After her death he lived with her sister, the widowed Lucie Nilsdatter, which was considered incest under church law at the time.

As a child, he entered the service of King John in 1502 . Based on his later language skills, it is assumed that he probably stayed abroad for legal studies.

First diplomatic tasks

In 1519 he was enfeoffed with the Agnethe convent of the Dominican Sisters in Gaunø and was commissioned by the king to have the Archbishop of Lund Birger Gunnersen arrest the papal legate and indulgence dealer Giovanni Angelo Arcimboldi . Together with Dyveke Sigbritsdatter he belonged to the inner circle of advisors to the king. At the beginning of the Stockholm carnage in 1520, he announced the arrival of King Christian II to the crowd gathered in the market . In the same year he was knighted. He took part with Dyveke and Hans Mikkelsen in the work on a new code of law that was supposed to limit the power of the nobility, the Imperial Council and the bishops. In addition, he was entrusted with various diplomatic tasks.

Under Friedrich I.

When Christian II had to flee to the Netherlands, he remained faithful to his service. In 1527 he returned to Denmark and negotiations began for his marriage to Eline Nilsdatter von Austråt , which were provisionally concluded in 1528. But her uncle and her brother-in-law Vincens Lunge delayed the marriage because they had the intention to marry Eline the Daljunker . But under the unclear political situation, the Danish government had an interest in having a loyal representative in the powerful clan on Austråt. He was therefore reconciled with King Friedrich and sent to Norway in August 1528. At this time the argument between Archbishop Olav Engelbrektsson and Vincens Lunge began. In 1530 he succeeded in bringing about a comparison between the two, which was replaced by a second comparison in 1532. For this he received, among other things, the fiefs of Fossen , Sunnmøre and Romsdalen , which were promised to him but which the archbishop did not give up. At the same time he became a member of the Norwegian Imperial Council. During this time the plague raged in Bergen. The circle around his mother-in-law tended towards Lutheranism. In 1531 he was at the Danish-Norwegian gentlemen's day in Copenhagen and then stayed with the king. In 1532 Eline and her mother Ingerd were temporarily prisoners of the archbishop. Eline died in Bergen in 1532.

Under Christian III.

When Christian II tried in vain to recapture Norway and failed in Norway, he negotiated safe conduct for him to Copenhagen. When Christian came to Copenhagen, he was captured anyway. When King Friedrich died in 1533, Nils secured northern Norway for the new King Christian III. Archbishop Olav Engelbrektsson was forced to submit to the new king. He had to pay damages to the Austråt clan and return the fiefs, goods and valuables. On the occasion, Nils was elected head of the Tautrakloster. In return, the archbishop accused him at a Diet in Bud of having had a mass read in Danish at home, in accordance with Lutheran teaching. He lived there on Storfosen, which he had fastened and where his young sister-in-law Lucie, Eline's widowed sister, was.

Incest scandal and death

Shortly thereafter, however, he seems to have made friends with the Norwegian self-employment policy and also tried to win over the archbishop. Because he wanted to marry Lucie, for which a dispensation from the archbishop needed. Vincens Lunge condemned this wish to marry her sister-in-law as heresy as early as 1534. On January 7, 1535, Vincens Lunge wrote to him again and informed him of the determined resistance of the family and the Danish Imperial Council to this connection. At the same time, the archbishop sought support for his secret negotiations with Christian III. At the beginning of 1535 Lucie gave birth to a child, which revealed the incest. The child died soon after. The bishops and other members of the Reichsrat refused to attend meetings of the Reichsrat in the presence of Nils. Nils Lykke and his lover Eline then gave up their marriage plans in mid-1535. Vincens Lunge succeeded in August 1535 with the help of the Sunnannfjelske Reichsrat to have Nils sentenced to death. Under pressure from the Imperial Council, the archbishop had arrested him, and on Christmas Eve he was executed in the archbishop's prison tower in Steinviksholmen. Before that, Nils had asked in vain for the support of the Austråt clan, but found little understanding. Christian II had also turned on for him. In contrast, Christian III refused to intercede for him. Even Lucie's pleading request in a letter of January 1, 1535 to the bishops to show mercy had no effect either.

Nils Lykke had given the archbishop treasures in a box, which the archbishop took with him on his escape to Deventer in the Netherlands. They were only returned after his death.

literature

Individual evidence

The article is a combination of Dansk biografisk Leksikon and Norsk biografisk leksikon .

  1. ↑ Diplamatarium Norvegicum Vol. 9 No. 716.
  2. ↑ Diplamatarium Norvegicum Vol. 10 No. 613.
  3. ↑ Diplamatarium Norvegicum Vol. 11 No. 603.
  4. ↑ Diplamatarium Norvegicum Vol. 11 No. 607.
  5. ↑ Diplamatarium Norvegicum Vol. 11 No. 601.
  6. ↑ Diplamatarium Norvegicum Vol. 11 No. 610.
  7. ↑ Diplamatarium Norvegicum Vol. 11 No. 611. The letter shows that the Archbishop had forgiven him.
  8. ↑ Diplamatarium Norvegicum Vol. 10 No. 614.
  9. ↑ Diplamatarium Norvegicum Vol. 11 No. 622.
  10. ↑ Diplamatarium Norvegicum Vol. 8 No. 654.
  11. ↑ Diplamatarium Norvegicum Vol. 10 No. 615.
  12. ↑ Diplamatarium Norvegicum Vol. 11 No. 606.
  13. ↑ Diplomatarium Norvegicum Vol. 6 No. 741.
  14. ↑ Diplomatarium Norvegicum Vol. 5 No. 1097.
personal data
SURNAME Lykke, Nils
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Knight and member of the Norwegian Imperial Council
DATE OF BIRTH around 1492
PLACE OF BIRTH Denmark
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1535