Niels Trolle

Niels Trolle
Niels Trolle
Born	20 December 1599 Ringkøbing, Denmark
Died	20 September 1667 (aged 67)
Nationality	Danish

Niels Trolle (20 December 1599 – 20 September 1667) was a Danish nobleman and Steward of Norway. He was born in Ringkøbing, and was a brother-in-law of Gregers Krabbe and Niels Krabbe. He was appointed Steward of Norway in 1656, and assumed this position until 1661.^[1][2] He married Helle Rosenkrantz of the Rosenkrantz family.

He played a central administrative role during the Nordic War from 1657.^[1]

Personal life

Trolle was the son of vassal Børge Trolle (d.1610). He studied at Herlufsholm School for 2 years, and was later sent on field trip in Leipzig. Trolle returned home in 1615 only to leave again to study abroad in Giessen after a brief visit home in Denmark. He also studied in Padua, at the University of Padua, and in France and England.

On 23 July 1626 he married Mette Corfitzdatter Rud, however Rud died on 25 February 1632. In 1634 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Copenhagen Castle and on 16 October 1636 he remarried to Helle Rosenkrantz, daughter of Holger Rosenkrantz, at Glimminge.

Career

In 1638, after several attempts, he was elected to be a land Commissioner in Zealand, and in 1639 he became a member of the Admiralty Court in Bremerholm. When the Torstensson War started in 1643, Trolle became a General Provisioning Commissioner, but in the spring of 1645 Christian IV offered him the position of Vice Admiral. Trolle did not intend on accepting but eventually did and became a Vice Admiral while he was on the Privy Council.

He did not come to play a major role as a naval officer; In June, he was well order to seek to relieve Bornholm , but even before the issuing of the order was the island fallen into enemy hands. Moreover, the fleet did state, and his company came to confine itself to keep it in the Copenhagen harbor . He watched with great bitterness in the Netherlands conduct. In August was concluded Brømsebrofreden, and in September he participated in ratification's exchange in Markaryd in which the fleet was unprepared. War events were, however, in his case a sequel, since Christian IV was very angry at him for his attitude during the process of Nobles in 1646 against his father-Holger Rosenkrantz on the occasion of the island's surrender.

In 1647 he was a member of a commission to investigate the financial condition, in August 1648 , he followed Frederick III to tilt as the Akershus and received the same year Knight battle of the king. In February 1650 he was than on a member of a commission to provide a report on the navy, but in January 1651 he resigned as Vice Admiral because of infirmity. He heard now for Hannibal Sehested and Corfitz Ulfeldt opponents, and after the latter case he got in July 1651 the seat of the review commission to examine deliveries to Holmen . In 1655 he became a member of the newly established Admiralty .

A far more important business was he still reserved, as he already had been strongly considered as come governor of Norway in 1651 after Hannibal Sehested fall in 1656 after Gregers Krabbe's death he was appointed there and also got Akershus Len instead of Roskilde. Probably he is not even here was the right man for the position; at least attack later Lieutenant General Jørgen Bielke him highly for his discouragement and inactivity during the second war with Sweden 1658 - 60 ; no less let Jørgen Bielke it out on his wife.In 1660 he was present at the great estates of the realm in Copenhagen; He was regarded as one of the presidents who were most incensed over the king's plans; in the days around the 10th October were attributed to him the utterance: "Is it therefore believed that we in this way should lose our liberty?" , while on the other side were rumors that he had been beaten by a class Copenhagen. Like his companions, he bent, however, was the privy council and probably also the nobility rapporteur of succession Declaration transfer 13 October and by hereditary elder no 18 October he carried the imperial sword; 7 November , he gave the new rådsed. At the same time, he also had personal troubles on the occasion of Colonel Jørgen Lion Klaus ' attack on him; in October it had come to violent clashes between them by interrogations for the rise reduced royal commission. In March 1661 , he learned the satisfaction that the Supreme Court acquitted him of all Lion Klaus' accusations and condemned his opponent to suffer as a liar; He had, however, complained that he was convicted by a court, which sat other than his right.

References

1. Gjeruldsen, Ole H. "Niels Trolle". In Helle, Knut. Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
2. Godal, Anne Marit (ed.). "Niels Trolle". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 27 February 2013.