Beate Bille (other)
Beate Bille may refer to *Beate Clausdatter Bille, a 16th-century Danish noblewoman and mother of Tycho Brahe *Beate Bille (actress) Beate Karoline Bille (born 17 November 1976) is a Danish actress and member of the Bille noble family. About She has received a Shooting Star Award at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival. She has had roles in several Danish films an ...

Beate Clausdatter Bille
Beate Clausdatter Bille (30 April 1526 – 18 October 1605) was a Danish noblewoman, a member of the royal court, Chief Lady-in-Waiting ( da, Hofmesterinde, corresponding to Mistress of the Robes in the UK) to Queen Sophie from 1584 to 1592, the wife of statesman Otte Brahe, and a feudal fiefholder in her own right following the death of her husband. She succeeded her sister-in-law Inger Oxe, who held the office from 1572 to 1584, as chief lady-in-waiting to Queen Sophie. Beate Bille was the mother of astronomers Tycho Brahe and Sophia Brahe. Biography Born at Skarhult Castle into the powerful and ancient noble Bille family, at 18 years old she married Otte Brahe of Knutstorp Castle ( da, Knudstrup borg, link=no), a member of the equally powerful noble Brahe family. Otte Brahe was a member of the (Privy Council), as were two of their sons, Steen and Axel Brahe. Her husband held substantial fiefdoms. After his death in 1571, Beate Bille kept the fiefdom of Froste in Scania and ...
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