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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Friis
Johan Friis (20 February 1494 - 5 December 1570) was a Danish statesman. He was born in Lundbygaard, Sweden, and died in Koge, Denmark. He studied in Odense and in Copenhagen before completing his education abroad.
Few among the ancient Danish nobility occupy so prominent a place in Danish history as Johan Friis, who exercised a decisive influence in the government of the realm during the reign of three kings. He was one of the first of the magnates to adhere to the Reformation and its promoter King Frederick I (1523-1533). Friis succeeded Claus Gjoodsen as imperial chancellor in 1532, and held that dignity till his death.
During the ensuing interregnum he powerfully contributed, at the head of the nobles of Funen and Jutland, to the election of Christian III (1533-1559), but in the course of the Counts' War he was taken prisoner by Count Christopher, the Catholic candidate for the throne, and forced to do him homage. Subsequently by judicious bribery he contrived to escape to Germany, and from thence rejoined Christian III.
He was one of the plenipotentiaries who concluded peace with Lübeck at the congress of Hamburg, and subsequently took an active part in the great work of national reconstruction necessitated by the Reformation, acting as mediator between the Danish and the German parties who were contesting for supremacy during the earlier years of Christian III. This he was able to do, as a moderate Lutheran, whose calmness and common sense contrasted advantageously with the unbridled violence of his contemporaries.
As the first chancellor of the reconstructed university of Copenhagen, Friis took the keenest interest in spiritual and scientific matters, and was the first donor of a legacy to the institution. He also enjoyed the society of learned men, especially of those who could talk with him concerning ancient monuments and their history. He encouraged Hans Svaning to complete Saxo's history of Denmark ("Gesta Danorum"), and Anders Vedel to translate Saxo into Danish.
His generosity to poor students was well known. Under King Frederick II (1559-1588), who understood but little of state affairs, Friis was well-nigh omnipotent. He was involved in the Scandinavian Seven Years' War (1563-70), which did so much to exacerbate the relations between Denmark and Sweden. Friis died on 5 December 1570, a few days before the peace of Stettin.
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Friis, Johan, 1494-1570, King's Chancellor. When eye looking back to the old Danish nobility in the prosperity of, there are not many figures who emerge more clearly from our view than the old Chancellor JF, for 3 kings Time was exerting decisive influence upon the Empire Board. He was born 20 Feb. 1494th His father was Jesper F. to Lundbygaard and Hesselagergård in Funen; mother was called Anne Brockenhuus. Early he lost his parents, however, he was put to school in Odense, and from he came next to Aarhus, where he for some years was under the renowned School Male Dr. Morten Børup 's Guide. F. commented in his old age often with gratitude for the good education he had received from this man, both in school and at home in his house. In 1514, he enrolled at Kjøbenhavns University. Later he went abroad. Among other learning seats he must have visited Paris, accompanied by M. Oluf Nielsen Some years then became the first evangelical preacher in Vejle. Johan Friis remained unmarried.
Borreby
Magleby parish, North Flakkebjerg township, Soro County
A few kilometers south of Skaelskoer at a small inlet of the fjord lies the manor Borreby. In 1345 mentioned the farm first, then called the 'Burghby', originally the name of the village there on the spot. It was owned at that time by a nobleman Niels Jensen. In the end of the century belonged to the Low Nielsen urn, which in 1392 gave his son Zabel Kerkendorp deed to Borreby and Borreby stringers; 1410 sold all his goods to Roskilde Peder Jensen Lodehat. Borreby was thus a bispelen that during the Reformation fell to the crown, and about 1553 left Christian III it to his chancellor Johan Friis. Borrebys new owner was as a man in late 50s and stood as Denmark's real political leader. Like so many of his own class he had in his youth been given an excellent education - Copenhagen University, master's degree in Cologne, one and a half years in Rome - before he was hired as writing in Christiern II's chancellery. The young nobility proud men have gathered experience, but he has hardly sympathized with Christiern citizen kindness, and he saved himself quickly in Frederick I's chancellery at Gottorp, where he did not like to be and where he in private letters expressing his bold and candid opinion about the king, who, however, paid him well and the year before his death made him his chancellor. Then worked Johan Friis vigorously for Duke Christian's choice for king, but had the infamous accident during a visit to Nyborg, along with several companions able to be caught off guard by Count Christophers people. Via a Germany residence, where he met Luther and Melanchthon, he came back on the Christian side and stood finally after Copenhagen surrender in October 1536 as the Kingdom's leading personality. In the following years he built up Denmark's domestic and foreign policy and finances without forgetting his personal circumstances, such as the reconstruction of the ancestral farm Hesselagergård, but it is probably unfair, when Frederick II after his death left the family unravel 50,000 rdl to avoid process about his management of state funds. Johan Friis was no friend of Sweden. Deeply interested in his country and his family's history, as he was, he had appointed Hans Svaning the first Danish royal historiographer to lead Denmark story up to date by Saxo. As a Swedish historical work looking fierce, by Gustav Vasa inspired attacks on the Danes, sent Friis Svaning the fire with an answer. Later, when Denmark Frederik II and Sweden Erik XIV both had bellicose kings, Johan Friis, by requiring the inclusion of the three crowns in the Danish arms not without responsibility for the outbreak of war. Although he had not wanted hostilities, he put his usual energy into their implementation and providing state large loans only in 1563 10.000 rdl Also in the seven years of war, he continued with Peter ax its purposeful work with the Danish Home conditions, but the peace he experienced not. When he in 1570 had been on Nykøbing Castle to negotiate with Frederick II on the conditions, he was on the way home sick in Køge, where he died with his protege Anders Sørensen Vedel at his deathbed. Johan Friis had then, thanks to his good sense, his colossal work and its suppleness been chancellor for over a lifetime. His own class, he stood up well with, perhaps because he initially was reluctant at lens implementation of the reform, although he cool weighed State requirements with respect to the noble landowners. Later, when Peter ax and his brother Eskildsdatter had persuaded him to tighten lens policy, he let them off the hook and was simply off the herredag where the big showdown may take place, and the following year contorted Johan Friis no emotion when Peder ox forced by men's harsh judgment might seek in exile. Such a man was Borrebys new owner, in addition Borreby also owned his fathers farm Hesselagergård and Hagested farm near Holbaek. Johan Friis built, as evidenced by an inscription panel in Borrebys stair tower. (Danish Castles & Manor Houses)
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1494 - 1570 (76 years)
