Skipper Clement

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Skipper Clement , actually Klemen Andersen (born November 13, 1485 in Vedsted , Vendsyssel , † September 9, 1536 in Viborg ), was a Danish captain and privateer on the side of Christian II , who later became known as the leader of the peasant uprising of 1534 .

Life

Klemen Andersen was born in Vedsted. His family were probably farmers and small traders. Around 1515 Marine married Sørensdatter Munk (* ~ 1490), with whom he had three children.

At the beginning of the 1520s he was a merchant in Aalborg and a skipper - hence his nickname - and vice admiral under Christian II. Even after Christian fled the rebellious nobility to the Netherlands in 1523 and his uncle Friedrich I became king, Clement Christian held the Loyalty and served him as a privateer. In Christian's unsuccessful attempt to recapture Norway in 1531/32, he was there. King Friedrich's death in 1533 led to the feud of the counts . While the Lutheran party preferred Duke Christian III of the nobles and the Catholic his younger brother Johann , the dethroned King Christian II, who was a prisoner in Sonderborg Palace, was the king the people wanted. Christoph von Oldenburg , a cousin of both Christian II and Christian III, declared that he wanted to bring the deposed and imprisoned king back to the throne. With the support of Lübeck's mayor Jürgen Wullenwever , he invaded Denmark. When the Danish Imperial Council finally Christian III in July 1534. elected as king, a large part of Denmark was already in the hands of the count and his allies.

In August 1534 the peasants rose up under their leader, Skipper Clement. The peasant uprising spread across large parts of Jutland . The peasants' suppressed hatred of the nobility set a long row of noble residences in Jutland up in flames. On October 16, 1534, the peasant army at Svenstrup in North Jutland won a victory over the numerically inferior army of the Danish nobility under Holger Holgersen Rosenkrantz von Boller . However, skipper Clement did not ally himself with Count Oldenburg and the cities of Copenhagen , Malmö and Lübeck. When the war against Lübeck ended in November 1534 with the Peace of Stockelsdorf , King Christian III could. concentrate his forces on the suppression of the insurrection. The king's army under his general Johann Rantzau divided the peasant army and put it to flight. Rantzau penetrated north Jutland quickly and without encountering great resistance, and finally Clement's forces were encircled in Aalborg, where they were defeated on December 18, 1534 after a few days of siege. The defenders Skipper Clements, between 700 and 800 men, were slaughtered, after which the city was opened for sacking .

Execution of skipper Clement

Skipper Clement himself escaped the bloodbath in Aalborg, but a few days later he was betrayed and captured by a farmer. On September 9, 1536 he was beheaded in front of the cathedral in Viborg . His body was quartered and placed on four stakes, and his head was crowned with a lead crown.

The peasant uprising under skipper Clement, called Clementsfejden in Denmark , was the last in Denmark.

Afterlife

Skipper Clement is remembered as a hero of freedom. In 1919 the first Danish scout group named itself after him. In 1931 a monument by the sculptor Johannes Bjerg was erected in Aalborg in North Jutland . 1970 wrote the poet and politician of the radical Venstre , Ebbe Kløvedal Reich (1940-2005), the song Skipper Clement Morgensang , to which Leif Varmark (* 1941) wrote the melody.

In 2005 the international school in Aalborg was renamed Skipper Clement Skolen.

literature

Web links

Commons : Skipper Clement  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • danskekonger.dk Danish site with biographies of kings since 1448 and other interesting personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Page of Spøttrup Castle in North Jutland with pictures of skipper Clement.
  2. ^ Bertel Nygaard: Clementsfejden on danmarkshistorien.dk.
  3. ^ Monument to the skipper Clement
  4. ↑ skibber Clement morning Sang in German translation
  5. ↑ Skipper Klement's Morning Song
  6. ↑ History of the school (English).
personal data
SURNAME Skipper Clement
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andersen, Klemen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish privateer
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1485
PLACE OF BIRTH Vedsted, Vendsyssel
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1536
Place of death Viborg