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- 1484-95 County Sheriff Birgitte Olufsdatter Thott of Dronningholm Len
Birgitte Thott was a major landowner and was married to the Swedish Councillor of State and lagmand Erengisle Nilsson, who died 1469. She was in dispute with her husband's children of first marriage over her Swedish castles, and with her stepmother, Anne Present, over the ownership of Vallø-Castle, which Birgitte had inherited from her mother, Karen Falk. She was supported by the Danish king, who appointed her Lensmand (County Sheriff) of the Royal Lands of Dronningholm, and as such she was in charge of local administration. She sold many of her possessions to king Hans. Much of her troubles with inheritance and keeping on to her lands must be seen as a result of her having no children. (d. 1498)
Thott, Birgitte Olufsen daughter - o .1498, daughter of Oluf Axelsen T. to Vallø and his first wife, Karen Jensdatter Falk. She was o. 1440 was married to the Swedish counselor, Knight Erngisle Nilsson to Hammarstad in Sødermanland. Already 1452 is she by Carl Knutsson and the Swedish counselor have been burned because she had obtained King Christian of news from Sweden, but was for his family's sake, pardoned by life imprisonment in Kalmar convent from which she escaped, presumably because King Christian the following year, became king of Sweden. After Erngisle Nilsson's Death (Feb. 1464) exclaimed a multitude of controversies both on Vallø as her younger sister, Birgitte after those of his father, Oluf Axelsen (d. 1464), Measures had been taken, partly on Hammarstad with Knight Erngisle Gjede that was married to Mrs. B. s Stifdatter, also named Birgit. His claims upon Vallø Mrs. BO sold to Queen Dorothea, both she and King Christian kept under these quarrels with Mrs. B.; both were at war with the mighty sons Axel and Sten Sture, who was married to an Thott and finally at bargain came into possession of Hammarstad. Mrs. B. was accused of presenting a series of forged letters to the Court concerning all these facts and her own writer professed his part in the forgeries. Under these conditions had Mrs. B. 1478 leave Sweden, she spent 20 years in Denmark, bl. a. at the Royal Forlening Dronningholm by Basketry, later in the Snow troupe in Halland. When her younger aforementioned Sister Birgitte in 1483 were destined for Niels Eriksen Rosenkrantz, prisoners in King Hans' charter clause that the king or queen was not to pledge or buy Gods of knighthood, and this determination was most retroactively to Vallø estate. The crown kept still with the older Mrs. B., and the thing was on, right to Frederick In 1523 had to give back the disputed goods to Niels Eriksen's heirs, it was thus at last the crown, which had fine for Mrs. B's frauds, and hardly lost when the Crown itself had become entangled in the case (compare detailed XIV, 274 f.). It was Mrs. B. However, long dead, she mentioned last time 1498, but even in Christian III's time, Niels Eriksen Rosenkrantz 'heirs, including Tyge Crab and Eric Banner, disputes about' leaders' (now Baltic ores in Stockholm) with King Gustav Vasa because of conditions that stemmed from Mrs. B. of Hammarstads Time.
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(Age > 50 years)