Gregers Krabbe (12 January 1594 – 20 December 1655) was a Danish nobleman who served as Governor-general of Norway.

Biography

He was born in on the Vesløsgård estate at Hannæs in northwestern

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, Denmark. He was a son of Niels Krabbe til Vesløsgård (d. 1626) and Vibeke Ulfstand (1559–1611). He was a brother-in-law of

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and

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. From the age of 14 to the age of 23, he stayed abroad, partly as an educational trip with studies in Germany, France and Italy. From 1617 to 1625 he was secretary in the Danish Chancellery. From 1627 he was lord over the Danish county of Hindsgavl in

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and from 1639 to 1651 at Riberhus. He was a member of the national council from 1640, and held several diplomatic missions from 1640-1643. He served as Governor-general of Norway from 1651, and died at the

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in Christiania (now Oslo) in 1655. He was succeeded as governor by his brother-in-law

References

1594 births 1655 deaths 17th-century Danish nobility Governors-general of Norway {{denmark-bio-stub