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- Jacob was underaged when his father died, a fact that the Danish king took advantage of when he moved to seize his father's fiefdom in N?rre-Halland. Jacob later got N?rre-Halland back as a result of a coronation charter made with King Erik Klipping.
In 1276 Jacob Skarsholm, Count (Greve) of N?rre-Halland, and Field-Marshal (Marsk) Stig, led a small army to rescue two Swedish Dukes Erik and Magnus. Jacob's seal, together with Domicellus Ericus, can be found on a document from 1277, witnessed by Duke Thomm?ssun; and again in 1280 together with Petrus Gyurtsun. In 1278 he received the consent of his uncle Otto, the Count of Ravensberg, and several other relatives, to trade his estate in Venslev for the Kundel?se Estate, which he shortly donated to the Sisters of Saint Clare Convent. In 1283 he was able to obtain, with the help of his "Schweinske" friends in northern Germany, acknowledgement of his claim to N?rre-Halland. In 1284 he attended the Danish King's Court in Nyborg, even though the year before he had sided with Duke Valdemar of South-Jylland, together with the Lord High Constable, Stig Andersen Hvide, and several other dissenters. Jacob was knighted by the Norwegian King in 1285.
In November of 1286 King Erik Klipping was murdered in a barn in Finderup. In May of 1287 he, Stig Andersen Hvide, and nine other of the country's leading men were banished by the Danish court-of-law in Nyborg for being instigators in the murder of King Erik Klipping. Folk ballads were soon claiming that the Lord High Constable had killed the King because the King had been offensive to his wife, but this was probably pure fiction.
Following this Jacob joined in the Norwegian raids against Denmark. He had Varberg and Hunehals built; these were attacked by the Danes in 1294 when they plundered N?rre-Halland. After the 1295 peace-treaty he was pardoned, but in 1305 he had to give up his N?rre-Halland estates to the Norwegian King. While in Helsingborg he was once again found guilty of the murder of King Erik Klipping. (Source: Dansk Adels?rbog, 1916, page 421, and "A History of Denmark", by Palle Lauring, 1995.)
This database researched and compiled by Norman Lee Madsen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 21 July 2015.
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1250 - 1308 (~ 58 år)
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