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See also:ULFELDT, KORFITS (1606-1664) , Danish statesman, was the son of the See also:chancellor See also:Jacob Ulfeldt. After a careful See also:education abroad he returned to See also:Denmark in 1629 and quickly won the favour of See also:Christian IV. In 1634 he was made a See also:Knight
of the See also:Elephant, in 1636 became councillor of See also:state, in 1637
See also:governor of See also:Copenhagen, and in 1643 See also:lord treasurer. In 1637
he married the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's daughter Leonora See also:Christina, who had
been betrothed to him from her ninth See also:year. Ulfeldt was the most striking See also:personality at the Danish See also:court in all superficial
accomplishments, but his See also:character was marked by ambition, avarice and See also:absolute lack of See also:honour or See also:conscience. He was largely responsible for the disasters of the See also:Swedish See also:war of 1643-45, and when the treaty of Bromsebro was signed there was a violent See also:scene between him and the king, though Ulfeldt's resignation was not accepted. In See also:December 1646 he was sent as See also:ambassador extraordinary to the See also:Hague, but the results of his See also:embassy by no means corresponded to its costliness, and when he returned to Denmark in See also:July 1647 he found the king profoundly irritated. Ulfeldt, supported by the Raad and the See also:nobility, who objected to Christian's fiscal policy, resisted his See also:father-in-See also:law, and triumphed completely. As lord high steward he was the virtual ruler of Denmark during the two months which elapsed between the See also:death of Christian IV. and the See also:election of See also:Frederick III. (July 6, 1648); but the new king was by no means disposed to tolerate the outrageous usurpations of Ulfeldt and his wife, and this antagonism was still further complicated by allegations of a See also:plot (ultimately proved to be false, but believed at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to be true) on the See also:part of Dina Winhavers, a former See also:mistress of Ulfeldt, to See also:poison the royal See also:family. Dina was. convicted of See also:perjury and executed, but Ulfeldt no longer See also:felt secure at Copenhagen, and on the See also:day after the See also:execution he secretly quitted Denmark (July 14, 1651), with his family. After living for a time in concealment at See also:Amsterdam, he migrated to See also:Barth in Swedish See also:Pomerania, and began the intrigues which have branded his name with See also:infamy. In July 1657 he eagerly responded to the invitation of See also:Charles X. of See also:Sweden, when he invaded Denmark, and entered the service of his See also:country's deadliest foe, for the See also:express purpose of humiliating his See also:sovereign and enriching himself. He persuaded the commandant of See also:Nakskov, the one fortress of Laaland, to surrender to Charles X., and did his best to convince his countrymen that resistance was useless. Finally, as one of the Swedish negotiators at the See also:congress of Taastrup, he was instrumental in humiliating his native See also:land as she had never been humiliated before. Ulfeldt's See also:treason was rewarded by Charles X. of Sweden with the countship of Solvitsburg in Blekinge; but the discontented renegade began intriguing against his new See also:master, and in May 1659 was condemned to death. The Swedish regents, on the 7th of July, amnestied him, and he returned to Copenhagen to try to make his See also:peace with his lawful sovereign, who promptly imprisoned him and his wife. In the summer of r66o they were conveyed to Hammershus in See also:Bornholm, as prisoners of state. Their captivity was severe to brutality; and they were only released (in See also:September 1661) on the most degrading conditions. The fallen See also:magnate henceforth dreamed of nothing but revenge, and in the course of 1662, during his See also:residence at See also:Bruges, he offered the Danish See also:crown to the elector of See also:Brandenburg, proposing to raise a See also:rebellion in Denmark for that purpose. Frederick See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William betrayed Ulfeldt's treason to Frederick III., and the Danish See also:government at once impeached the traitor; on the 24th of July 1663 he and his See also:children were degraded, his See also:property was confiscated, and he was condemned to be beheaded and quartered. He escaped from the country, but the See also:sentence was actually carried out on his effigy; and a See also:pillory was erected on the ruins of his See also:mansion at Copenhagen. He died at See also:Basel, in See also:February 1664.
See See also:Julius See also:Albert Fridericia, Adelsvaeldens sidste dage (Copenhagen, 1894) ; Danmarks riges historie, vol. iv. (Copenhagen, 1897—1905) ; See also:Robert Nisbet See also:Bain, Scandinavia, chs. vii., ix., x. (See also:Cambridge, 1905).
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