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Gyldenstierne-sagen
Gyldenstierne-sagen ('Gyldenstierne Affair') was a witch trial which took place in Denmark between 1596 and 1598. Alongside the Nakkebølle-sagen Christence (Christenze) Akselsdatter Kruckow (circa 1558 – 26 June 1621) was a Danish noblewoman who was executed for witchcraft after having been accused twice. She is one of the most well known victims of the witch hunt in Denmark, and one of ..., it was one of two big witchcraft cases in the 1590s which was essentially caused by feuds among the Danish noble families.Kallestrup, Louise Nyholm: Heksejagt. Aarhus Universitetsforlag (2020) In 1596, the noblewoman Anne Hardenberg (1566-1625) gave birth to a dead child, after several years of depression. She blamed her misfortune on witchcraft, which resulted in the execution of three peasant women, whom her husband Johan Rud arrested, imprisoned and interrogated in his private estate. When one of the tortured women pointed out the noblewoman Karen Gyldenstierne, who was the long-standin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nakkebølle-sagen
Christence (Christenze) Akselsdatter Kruckow (circa 1558 – 26 June 1621) was a Danish noblewoman who was executed for witchcraft after having been accused twice. She is one of the most well known victims of the witch hunt in Denmark, and one of few members of the nobility to have been executed for sorcery in Scandinavia, and the only one in Denmark. Life She was the daughter of the nobleman Axel Nielsen Kruckow (d. 1558) and Anne Mogensdatter Bielke. Her family belonged to the lower nobility. As was the custom in the Danish nobility, Christence Kruckow was sent to be raised in another noble family than her own, in order to learn how to be a lady of a noble estate before marriage, and she was sent to be raised at the Nakkebølle estate by the nobleman Eiler Brockenhuus and his wife Berte Friis. First trial: the Nakkebølle-sagen In 1582, Eiler Brockenhuus became a widower. Reportedly, Christence Kruckow had hoped to marry him herself, but in 1584 he married Anne Bille ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witch Trials In Denmark
The Witch trials in Denmark are poorly documented, with the exception of the region of Jylland in the 1609–1687 period. The most intense period in the Danish witchcraft persecutions was the great witch hunt of 1617–1625, when most executions took place, which was affected by a new witchcraft act introduced in 1617.Kallestrup, Louise Nyholm: Heksejagt. Aarhus Universitetsforlag (2020) History Legal situation Sorcery was first criminalized in Denmark in the county laws of Scania and Zealand from 1170, which followed the contemporary principle that magic was prohibited only in combination with murder, which was a common principle in other contemporary laws against sorcery in the Middle Ages.Ankarloo, Bengt & Henningsen, Gustav (ed.), ''Skrifter. Bd 13, Häxornas Europa 1400-1700: historiska och antropologiska studier''. Stockholm: Nerenius & Santérus, 1987 Whether anyone was executed in Denmark for sorcery during the Middle Ages is unknown due to lacking documentation. In th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1596 In Europe
Events January–June * January 6– 20 – An English attempt led by Francis Drake to cross the Isthmus of Panama ends in defeat. * January 28 – Francis Drake dies of dysentery off Portobelo. * February 14 – Archbishop John Whitgift begins building his hospital at Croydon. * April 9 – Siege of Calais: Spanish troops capture Calais. * May 18 – Willem Barents leaves Vlie, on his third and final Arctic voyage. * June – Sir John Norreys and Sir Geoffrey Fenton travel to Connaught, to parley with the local Irish lords. * June 10 – Willem Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk discover Bear Island. * June 17 – Willem Barents discovers Spitsbergen. * June 24 – Cornelis de Houtman arrives in Banten, the first Dutch sailor to reach Indonesia.. July–December * July 5 – Capture of Cádiz: An English fleet, commanded by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Lord Howard of Effingham, sacks Cádiz. * July 14 – King Dominicus Corea (Edirille Bandara) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
16th Century In Denmark
16 (sixteen) is the natural number following 15 and preceding 17. 16 is a composite number, and a square number, being 42 = 4 × 4. It is the smallest number with exactly five divisors, its proper divisors being , , and . In English speech, the numbers 16 and 60 are sometimes confused, as they sound very similar. Sixteen is the fourth power of two. For this reason, 16 was used in weighing light objects in several cultures. The British have 16 ounces in one pound; the Chinese used to have 16 ''liangs'' in one ''jin''. In old days, weighing was done with a beam balance to make equal splits. It would be easier to split a heap of grains into sixteen equal parts through successive divisions than to split into ten parts. Chinese Taoists did finger computation on the trigrams and hexagrams by counting the finger tips and joints of the fingers with the tip of the thumb. Each hand can count up to 16 in such manner. The Chinese abacus uses two upper beads to represent the 5s and 5 low ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
