KORFITS See also:ULFELDT (1606-1664)
, Danish statesman, was the son of the See also:chancellor See also:Jacob See also: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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