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- Jens Hansen Sode had previously lived in Halland province. He graduated from Lund University in 1620. Another source tells us that Jens Hansen Sode became headmaster of the latin-school in R?nne. In 1627 he was ordained as a clergyman. It is possible that Jens Hansen Sode's forebearers originated in Bohemia. However, as the church records for that region and era were burnt during the wars of middle Europe, further research is impossible.
According to Julius Bidstrup (in "Personalhistorisk Tidsskrift," 1944, K?benhavn, pages 97-99) Jens Hansen Sode "seems to have come from (the then Danish province of) Sk?ne." Unfortunately he did not reveal his source for this assertion. However, in general this is supported by the matriculation records of K?benhavn University - in a record dated April 13, 1629 states that a "Janus Johannis Alanus Sode" graduated from the Landskrona school. He first held the position of rector for R?nne's latin-school, afterwards was parish priest for Hasle and Rutsker from 1632 until his death. He owned Krogholmsg?rd, 32 Slg. in Rutsker parish from 1644 until his death in 1654.
A "communiceret" in the ?ker-?kirkeby provides us with Jens Hansen Sode's date of death in 1654: "13 Oct. '54, d?de Hl. Jens Hansen Sode i Ryscher Sogn." In 1654 plague killed 133 in Hasle and 230 people in Rutsker parish. It is notable that four of his sons, circa 1670, were clergymen at the four Bornholm Round-Churches.
Though the name of his wife is not recorded, it is known that she was the widow of Pastor "Michel Olufsen, Borringus" (Michel Olufsen, from Bornholm), the previous clergyman for Rutsker parish from 1613 until his death in 1632. Michel enrolled in K?benhavn's University in 1606, the same time as his brother, Lars Olufsen. According the the gravestone placed over Michel Olufsen in Rutsker Church he died on February 19, 1632; the gravestone describes him as "Menighedens L?rer" (the congregation's teacher). It seems likely that her name was Margrethe, as we know that six of her children (Hans, Jacob, Karen, J?rgen, Claus, and Martha) named either their first or second born daughters Margrethe. (Possibly her patronymic was J?rgensdatter?) In "Bolette Markers aner" it is suggested that her name is Margrethe Hansdatter Kofoed - but no evidence or source is provided for this assertion. According to Stationmaster C. Kragh's notes on the Sode-family she might have been the daughter of J?rgen Jensen, an Alderman (R?dmand) in the town of N?stved on Sj?lland - again, no evidence provided; Mads Michelsen Borringholm's son Jens Madsen is recorded as having moved to N?stved sometime after the death of his father.
In the "Series Pastorum" it is said that Michel Olufsen was known by the name "Rysler", and the clergyman writing it wonders if that is a nickname: "Hr. Michel skal have f?rt det Tilnavn 'Rysler' eller om det kan v?re et ?genavn, tillagt ham af den gemene Mand, thi her betyder Rysler en, der s?tter sine Midler over Styr, en Rysler Broder." Meaning someone who spent too much money or couldn't control his finances.
In the visitation reports he is referred to as a non-drinker - that he was very much against drinking: "Pastorem D. Michaelem heic ebrium offendit" - but it is unclear if he was a radical "afholdsmand" or if it is just mentioned by the visitator (the Bishop) because he had just been visiting the drunk clergyman for ?ker-?kirkeby, Morten Brynch, who had been drunk all the time he was there, and went drinking in R?nne the night before he was doing his sermon for the Bishop - his preaching is described as not only poor but utterly strange. Michel Olufsen is also described as a man of strong convictions, who liked strong, expressive sermons. Bishop Mads Jensen Medelfar attended a sermon in 1621, and writes that Michel Olufsen preached with power, that his speech was powerful and strong, but not very well spoken (as in not well formulated), but only expressed in a powerful manner. He relates that the the parishoners all said it was a wonderful speech, but the Bishop urged him to do it a bit slower, reminding him that sermons do not have to be given fast and in haste: "Concionem habuit minus articulate propositam; auditores tamen laudabiliter eum facere officium uno ore proclamarunt. Admonuit (sc. Episcopus) pastorem, non ita festinaret."
From the ?ker-?kirkeby kirkebog:
October 13, 1654: Communiceret, 13 Oct. '54, d?de Hl. Jens Hansen Sode i Ryscher Sogn.
Extracted from the probate for Niels Jensen, October 3, 1695, page 59:
Anno 1695 den 3 October, er efter forregaaende loulig giorde tillysning, holden registering og vurdering, sampt schifte og deeling efter sahl. Niels Jensen, som boede og d?de, paa den 8 Jord Eiendoms gaard, beliggende i Nyelaursker Sogn. . . Efter it schiftebref ganged efter afgangne Hl. Mads Michelsen fordum Sogne Pr?st til St. Nicolai meenighed, datered den 3 October Ao. 1664 befindes, at denne sal. mand Niels Jensens fader, afgangne Jens Nielsen, er til ordned at verge, for en af den s. mand Hl. Mads Michelsens s?nner ved naun Jens Madsen, huilked vergemaal saa som denne sahl. mand Niels Jensen efter sin sal. fader Jens Nielsen aleene var arfuing for aarsagedis hand samme vergemaal ved Landstings retten at lade approbere om hand som til bemelte myndling var gangske ubesteghed, kunde v?re pliglig til at antage, efter som omtrent, en 16 aars tid, at samme vergemaal Niels Jensens sal. fader, var paa buden, da henl?ben var, som Niels Jensen sig i Landstings stefningen hauer ouer besuarged, saavel og at hand ej de rom noged skiftebref laad sedel, eller minste efter retning efter sin sal. fader forefundet hauer, men da f?rst samme skiftebrefved stefnemaaled bekom. . . og bestaar i efter skrefue som der til er udlagt nemlig hos Borgmester Peder Sejersen i Nestved udi Nestved udi S?land, 73 Sldr. 1 Mk. 5-1/3 Sk., om huilken summa myndlingen Jens Madsen udi sin skrivelse, som er datered Nestved den 10 Juny 1685, tilsin verge Niels Jensen melder at som hans broder Michel Madsen har hannem tilforn til skrifuen at giore mageskifte med hannem imod hus ham her paa landet til kom, at ouer lade sin anpart der i Nestved, som bestoed hos ?frigheden der samme steds. . . Jens Persen forige Ridefouged 5 Dr. . . da Jens Madsen efter sin s. faders skiftebrefs anledning syldet sine 18 aar thi hand efter otte begiering derom siden hand blef myndig ej har villed self s?gt sin arf hos bemelte sin verge. . . Saa efter den myndlingen Jens Madsen, efter nogle gange at hand er anmoedet ej self hauer kommed til stede sin arfuedeel at annamme, men sig und skyldt ike at kunde hid rejse, og begiert i ber?rte sin skrivelse, hans til kommende arf under for var ieg, entten hos hans broder Michel Madsen eller enanden mand maatte for bliue stoer for hannem til verge og forsuar i hans absens anordnet, efter som broderen ike er ved er hestig det at antog. . . .
The following speculation on the surname Sode was received from Finn Sode, Denmark:
A common way of choosing a surname (for outsiders) at that time was by using the person's birthplace, but there is only one Danish town, in Haderslev county in south Jylland, by the name of Sode - but there is no evidence to support this as a place of origin. The name "Alanus" used by Jens Hansen Sode at the time of his matriculation would seem to have been borrowed from the well-known professor in the Greek language: Hans Jensen Alanus (who came from the town of Ala in Halland province). A total of 3 students used the name "Alanus" besides "Janus Johannis Alanus Sode," one was from Slagelse, and the third was also from Landskrona school. But what of the origin of the surname Sode? It seems probable that it is a long held family surname.
Gunnar Carlquist (1944, Sweden) states that the uncommon surname "Sode" was used by a clergyman in Sk?ne, he is mentioned first in the "Hyllningsakterne" (coronation document) of 1584, and again in 1614-1615. He was the pastor for "St?dhave" (now called Stenhag, in Onsj? district), who in 1584 signed himself both as "Jens Jpss" and "Jens Sode," again in the "Hyllningsakterne" of 1610 as "Jens Jpss." From 1611 through 1614 in the "Lensregnskaberne" (financial accounts) as "Hr. Jens Ibss?n." And in the "Visitatsbogen" (Jfr. Carlquist, Lunds stifts Herdaminne, Ser. I:73), written with his own hand in 1619 as "Hr. Jenss," using a seal which states: "Sl? (fatuus) og f?rsumlig." In specific Gunnar Carlquist's references are: 1) Jens Sode, Skrift fra 1529, Se ovenst. artikel. 2) Jens Jacobsen Sode, 1584, Pr?st i St?dhave (Nuv?rende Stehag) i Sk?ne.
A Mr. Cavallin tells us in his journals (III, 166), regarding the history of the parsons in Stenhag, that "Sodius Jacobaeus bare var en gammel indskrift pastor h?rst?des 1584" (Sodius Jacobaeus was an old pastor in 1584), and names his successor as "Jens Ipsen eller Sode, pastor h?rst?des 1584 och ?nnu 1610 samt troligen ?nnu n?gra Aar senare." (Jens Ipsen or Sode, pastor there in 1584 and still in 1610, as well very likely many years later). The above quotes from Cavallin concerning "Sodius Jacobaeus" comes from a journal called "1768 ?rs Pr?strelation fr?n Stenhag" and further tells us "P? en bondb?nk i Stenhags kyrka indskr.: Anno Do:ni 1582. Pastor ecclesiae tum temporis erat Sodius Jacobij." (On a farmer's pew in Stenhag Church bears the following inscription: The year of Our Lord 1582. Ecclesiastic pastor for that year and time was Sodius Jacobij.")
One can come to the conclusion that Cavallin made 2 persons out of 1, failing to realize that the inscription stands for the very same man also recorded in various other documents, such at the coronation documents of 1584 and 1610, in the financial accounts of 1611 and 1614, and in the diary entry reference of 1619, where he is named variously as: Sodius Jacobij in 1582, Jens Sode in 1584, Jens Jpss in 1584, and Jens Ibss?n in 1611 and 1614, and Hr. Jenss in 1619. Putting all of these names together we can come up with a full name for the pastor: Hr. Jens Jacobsen Sode. Note: the name Jep/Jeppe is a variation on the name Jacob, the patronymic version of which is Ipsen/Ibsen.
The above chronology of Jens Hansen Sode and Jens Jacobsen Sode does not preclude their being grandson and grandfather. The Bornholmer pastor Jens Hansen Sode was probably born between 1600 and 1605. The Stenhag pastor Jens Jacobsen Sode was employed and probably already married by 1580. If you suppose that Jens Jacobsen Sode had a son named "Hans" born around 1575, then this "Hans Jensen Sode" could be the father of the Bornholmer pastor Jens Hansen Sode. That the parson from Stenhag, Jens Jacobsen Sode (-1582-1619-), is related to the Bornholmer parson Jens Hansen Sode (c.1603-1654) can not be said, at this point, to have been proven. However, given their common usage of the uncommon surname Sode, it would seem quite possible that they could be grandfather and grandson.
In "F?rteckning ?fver handlingar om Sk?ne, Halland och Blekinge" (Notes on negotiations concerning Sk?ne, Halland and Blekinge), by Falkman (Collecton 2: nr. 2242), in the Danish State Archives, can be found reference to a "vidnebrev" (witness letter) from Bara district, in Sk?ne, dated 1529, which was written by a notary by the name of: Jens Sod?. Who knows, possible the grandfather of Jens Jacobsen Sode?
The following information obtained from Camilla Luise Dahl (camillaluise_dahl@yahoo.dk):
I disagree with Finn Sode's notion that it had been borrowed from Hans Jensen Alanus - that would certainly be original but highly unlikely. The Latinised "Alanus" would always be given to people from Ala in Halland, whether they were students from Kolding, Landskrona or somewhere else.
The names such as Alanus, Hafniensis, Cimber, etc. would in almost all cases (with a few exceptions) refer to their place of birth/childhood, not where they became students. It was not uncommon that students studied far from home. However sometimes the addition of the name of a city or country part to the name was not the birth place of the person, but the birth place of the father, so that for instance a son of a man named Peder Christensen Falster could take the name Falster as a surname even if he was born in an other part of the country. This however was not common until the second half of the 17th century. I think it clearly places Hans Jensen Sode in Ala, Halland. I don't believe much in Sode in Jylland either because normally they would be given the name of the nearest big town or country part, not that of a tiny village.
I think it's very possible that Jens Ipsen Sode and Sode Jacob?us are the same person. Thank you, I hadn't thought of that possibility. I understood from Cawallin that Sodius Jacob?us had been there since the 1550s, which is also why I speculated that Niels Sode could have been perhaps a son, but he is much older, so he really couldn't have been a son of Sodius anyway.
Niels Sode was already a member of the town counsel in Malm? in 1559. Malm? skifter. Bd. I: Bofortegnelser 1546-1559 (probate records from Malm? 1546-1559). Udg. ved Einar Bager af Selskabet for Udgivelse af Kilder til dansk Historie. Kbh. 1977. In 1550: Nielss Sodj (member of the town counsel), p. 65.
In 1558 a probate for Bendt Poulsen (Benedictus Pauli) who was a brewer: Item Jens Smed ved Skabyrse hente her 2 senge dynner och 2 houid dynit och 3 lagen och 1 keppe, som h?rde Sode tiill." (Item: Jens Blacksmith collecting pillows and sheets from Bendt Poulsen's home which belonged to Sode.) Here he is just called Sode, so either it could be another memeber of the Sode family, or he was the only Sode in town and it was then not nessecary to call him anything but Sode, p. 159. In 1559 probate after cloth trader Christiern Ramsz?, among his debts was 29 Mark for Sode - again just mentioned Sode, p. 208.
This database researched and compiled by Norman Lee Madsen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 21 July 2015.
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