Memoirs: Of Leonora Christina, Daughter of Christian IV of Denmark. Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen, 1663-1685King, 1872 - 330 pages |
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... Malmöe . Two days afterwards she received the tidings of her mother's death , and as soon as the health of her husband W. 1 Count Jakob Casimir de la Gardie , a Swedish nobleman . Count ' was the Swedish General . Arrest of her Husband ...
... Malmöe . Two days afterwards she received the tidings of her mother's death , and as soon as the health of her husband W. 1 Count Jakob Casimir de la Gardie , a Swedish nobleman . Count ' was the Swedish General . Arrest of her Husband ...
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... Malmöe one day before the King of Sweden began the war for the second time and appeared before Kopenh In the year 1659 the King of Sweden ordered her husband to be arrested at Malmöe . She went im- mediately to Helsingör to speak to the ...
... Malmöe one day before the King of Sweden began the war for the second time and appeared before Kopenh In the year 1659 the King of Sweden ordered her husband to be arrested at Malmöe . She went im- mediately to Helsingör to speak to the ...
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... Malmöe against the Swedes . Ulfeldt was accused of having favoured and assisted this design ( see the Intro- duction ) , and he had brought Trolle's bride over to Copenhagen , or ac- companied them thither . 2 Wolf and Kield were ...
... Malmöe against the Swedes . Ulfeldt was accused of having favoured and assisted this design ( see the Intro- duction ) , and he had brought Trolle's bride over to Copenhagen , or ac- companied them thither . 2 Wolf and Kield were ...
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... Malmöe ; how the greatest favour which His Majesty , King Charles X. of Sweden , at that time showed me , was that he left it to my free will , either to remain at liberty , taking care of our property , or to be in prison with my lord ...
... Malmöe ; how the greatest favour which His Majesty , King Charles X. of Sweden , at that time showed me , was that he left it to my free will , either to remain at liberty , taking care of our property , or to be in prison with my lord ...
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... Malmöe , and she kept some of their movable goods for them during their imprisonment at Hammershuus . Note 9 , p . 108 . Birgitte Ulfeldt was a younger sister of Corfitz , who , in a letter to Sperling , declares her to be his and ...
... Malmöe , and she kept some of their movable goods for them during their imprisonment at Hammershuus . Note 9 , p . 108 . Birgitte Ulfeldt was a younger sister of Corfitz , who , in a letter to Sperling , declares her to be his and ...
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Page 153 - Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
Page 156 - Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
Page 156 - And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them ? 8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.
Page 156 - This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.
Page 87 - Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity laid in the balances together ! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea : Therefore my words are swallowed up.
Page 303 - I know not if his hope was great ; at any rate it did not last long. Jonatha told me Ole's news. I wished the King's Majesty a prosperous journey (I knew already what order he had given), and it seemed to me from her countenance she was to some extent contented. At about eight o'clock Totzloff came up to me and informed me that the Lord Chancellor Count. Allefeldt had sent the prison governor a royal order that I was to be released from my imprisonment, and that I could leave when I pleased. (This...
Page 2 - Life of Count Ulfeldt, Great Master of Denmark, and of the Countess Eleonora his Wife. Done out of French. With a supplement. London. 1695. 8vo. Ulfeldt and Leonora referring to their own life and actions. Ulfeldt published in 1652 a defence of his political conduct, and composed, shortly before his death, another, commonly called the
Page 153 - Do not condemn me; Show me wherefore thou contendest with me. Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, That thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, And shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Page 155 - I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear : But now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Page 22 - II. in an easy way quitted himself of the debt, at the same time that he pleased the King of Denmark, without publicly violating political propriety. Leonora's account of the whole affair is confirmed in every way by the light which other documents throw upon the matter, particularly by the extracts contained in the Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the reign of Charles II., 1663-64.