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- Anne Frandsdatter was first married circa 1575 to J?rgen Hansen Guldsmed, later "Byfoged" for N?stved from 1591-1600. Anne is recorded as being a widow in 1604. In 1615 J?rgen Hansen Guldsmed's house in N?stved was sold for 20 Dlr. J?rgen is first recorded in 1579 as a renter, along with Mayor Anders Nielsen and merchant Walther Jacobsen, of a building known as "Kompagnihuset" (The Company House) in N?stved; in 1568 the building had been described as having "tre Boder mod Aastr?det. . . ?de og nedfaldne" (three stalls facing ?str?det . . . deserted and falling down). He is mentioned again in 1600 with regard to this same building, however the other renters were now the merchants Anders Knusen and Erich Holst, and skipper Peder Holst. In 1618-19 the renters were "guldsmed J?rgen Hansens enke" (goldsmith J?rgen Hansen's widow), Mayor Anders Nielsen, and Erich and Peder Holst.
There was a Hans Willadsen Guldsmed who, according to the "Danske Domme", was a "Borger" (Burgher) and "Guldsmed" (goldsmith) in N?stved in 1550 (as mentioned in N?stved Museum's annual journal "Liv & Levn", vol. 4, page 12). Possibly he is the father or grandfather of J?rgen Hansen Guldsmed (died c.1604)?
Anne must have been married in N?stved circa 1604-05 to Hans J?rgensen, as he moved to Bornholm in 1605 to become the clergyman for Svaneke-Ibsker, where he is recorded under the name "Hans J?rgensen Nestwed". Hans J?rgensen must have died circa 1620, and his widow married his successor, Michel Nielsen Nosebye, who is recorded as being the next clergyman for Svaneke-Ibsker from 1620 until his death in 1670. Anne Frandsdatter must have died circa 1626, as it is recorded that the widowed Michel was widowed and remarried in 1626. The identity of his second wife is not known, but she must have died circa 1645; with whom he possibly had a daughter named Lisbeth, wife of Haagen Bertelsen Dresler (c.1628-1666), the priest for Bodilsker-Nex?. Kure's farmowner-list states that Michel Nielsen Nosebye was evidently a widower when he married Christine Didrichsdatter from ?ker parish, so she must be his third wife, whom he married circa 1645. It is recorded that Michel Nosebye was denied the position of "Provst" (Dean) circa 1645 (when Jens Pedersen Borringholm stepped down) because of his multiple marriages. Most probably it was considered that a young woman barely out of her teens would not make a proper wife for Bornholm's Dean; there must have been a few middle aged, dignified priest-wives who weren't too happy about the possibility of being made lesser in rank than a woman 20 years their junior! Christine is probably the half-sister of Rasmus Pedersen Ravn's wife Mette; as Michel is said to be the brother-in-law of Rasmus Ravn in 1646. Michel's fourth marriage was to a woman named Maren, who died in childbirth; the child was named Anne Christine, possibly named after his two his previous wives: Anne Frandsdatter and Christine Didrichsdatter. His fifth marriage was to Rachel Johansdatter, whom he apparently outlived.
From the ?ker-?kirkeby kirkebog:
1653: Communicantes, Anno 1653, 19 Trin., Christine Hl. Michels i Ibsker Sogn f?dde en s?n Dirich, og d?dde hun Torsdag nest efter.
1658: Communicantes, 13 July d?de Maren Hr. Michels i Ibscher Sogn i Barselseng. Barnet kaldet Ane Christine.
1659: Communicantes, 25 Jan., Hl. Michel Nilsen i Ibscher Sogn og Rachel Johansdatter trolovede.
The following information based on a correspondence with Danish medieval textile historian Camilla Luise Dahl:
Michel Olufsen's wife was Margrethe J?rgensdatter, some people have concluded that she is possibly the daughter of J?rgen Jensen from N?stved. He had several children, all of whom died either young or as children, he did have a daughter named Margrethe, who was the only surviving daughter. He was a member of the town counsel. There was a tombstone in N?stved's St. Peder's Church over this J?rgen Jensen, it is now gone but is mentioned in the church records and it is also mentioned as "lost inventory" in the National Museum's work on Danish churches (Danmarks kirker), and also in the National museum archives.
J?rgen Jensen was buried inside the church, which means that he would have held a certain position in society; he died around 1620. There is an epitaph in St. Peder's Church where he was buried, which was place there in 1621, but the names of the people are now lost. It is possible that this epitaph is the one that belonged to his tomb inside the church, and if so it was paid by the widow as customary. Very few people were buried inside the churches and the few epitaphs that were placed in the churches were usually connected to the burials inside the church, so there is a certain possibility that it is the epitaph of J?rgen Jensen. Several of his family members had epitaphs made as well. The epitaph shows a woman with either two husbands or one husband and a grown son and their children, only one daughter is shown as alive. I have seen that some places the marriage of Michel Olufsen and Margrethe J?rgensdatter in 1627, but the St. Peder's Church parish records don't begin until 1631, so I don't know where this information comes from.
In "Series pastorum" Hans J?rgensen Nestwed is named as the son of J?rgen Hansen Guldsmed, however this can't be true. Hans J?rgensen Nestwed was married to Anne Frandsdatter, the widow of J?rgen Hansen Guldsmed, who was a goldsmith (guldsmed) and bailiff (byfoged) in N?stved. So Hans J?rgensen Nestwed couldn't possibly have married his own stepmother. She is also mentioned in Erh. Quistgaard: "Pr?stehustruer der er helt eller delvist udeladte hos Wiberg", K?benhavn, 1934.
Anne Frandsdatter must have married J?rgen Hansen Guldsmed sometime in the 1570s because their son Frands (or Frantz) J?rgensen was born in 1578, he later became headmaster of the Latin school in N?stved, he was a student at Herlufsholm in 1594, was created magister in 1602, and died young in 1608. They also had a son named Hans J?rgensen, but he is not identical with the Hans J?rgensen Nestwed who was a clergyman on Bornholm. Anne Frandsdatter's son Hans J?rgensen was member of the town counsel between 1610-20 and as Shrovetide-mayor (Fastelavnsborgmester) and member of the town counsel between 1620-42. They also had a third son named Rasmus J?rgensen, who was bailiff (byfoged) and mayor (borgmester) in N?stved, he was married to Magdalene Mogensdatter; there is an epitaph with both their names in N?stved's St. Peder's Church.
It is unclear when Anne Frandsdatter married Hans J?rgensen Nestwed, his age is not known but he is called "old" in the visitation in 1616. He is thought to have died before 1621 because his name was crossed out from the 1621 visitation, however it was common not to visit clergy who were very old, so he may not have died yet, although he probably did die around that time. According to "Historiske Efterretninger om N?stved Latinskole og dens L?re" by Svend Arnholtz (Pr?st? Amt 1920), J?rgen Hansen Guldsmed died in N?stved around 1612-13, yet it has no source for this. Quistgaard instead mentions that Anne Frandsdatter was a widow in 1604. The latter seems to be more believable, as she would then have married Hans J?rgensen Nestwed around the time he left N?stved to go to Bornholm, and not ten years later.
The claim that Margrethe is the daughter of J?rgen Jensen in N?stved is probably based on his having only one surviving daughter and that her name was Margrethe. I think it is comes from an the old book by Rasmus Nielsen called "N?stved K?bstads historie", vol. I- IV, N?stved, 1933, which states that J?rgen Jensen's only daugther Margrethe married a clergyman from Bornholm. I don't have the book so can't find the page number, but anyway it's hardly any evidence that it was his daughter and not J?rgen Hansen's daughter who married a Bornholmer. Furthermore, it doesn't say which clergyman from Bornholm, so I think it is possibly based on Michel Olufsen being the only one known to have been married to a Margrethe around that time.
Further evidence of Margrethe's family connection to N?stved can be found in the probate of Niels Jensen dated October 3, 1695, wherein it is mentioned that Margrethe and Michel's son, Mads Michelsen Borringholm (c.1627-1663) the clergyman for Nylars parish, had two sons, namely Michel Madsen and Jens Madsen. And that Jens Madsen had gone to live with a Peder Sejersen, who was the mayor of N?stved. Peder Sejersen (c.1615-1674) had a daughter named "Soffe" (Sophie) born in 1637. It is highly probable that she is the same person as the "Sophia Pedersdatter" who married Mads Michelsen Borringholm in 1656. Evidently sometime after the death of his father in 1663 Jens Madsen had gone to live with his grandfather in N?stved.
The "Pastorum" series from 1738 mentions that in 1626 Michel Nielsen Nosebye had been widowed and remarried within a year (source: "Monitum" by Bishop Hersleb, a clergyman list in the archive for Sj?lland, Lolland-Falster and Bornholm); this may be the death year of Anne Frandsdatter, so his second marriage can not have been to Christine Didrichsdatter, as at that time she would have only been an infant.
Anne Frandsdatter is the daughter of Frands Grove and his wife Margrethe; he was a "Borger" (Burgher) in N?stved and possibly also a "R?dmand" (alderman) there. It is not known when Frands Grove died, but his wife died a widow on August 1, 1593, and J?rgen Hansen Guldsmed paid for a "tomb for his mother-in-law". The tombstone still exists and bears the inscription: "Under denne steen ligger begrafven erlig og gudfrygtig kvinde, Margrete Frans Grobis, som d?de 1 Augusti aar 1593. J?rgen Hansen Guldsmed lod bekoste denne steen" (Under this stone lies buried the honest and pious woman Margrethe, wife of Frands Grove, who died 1 August 1593. J?rgen Hansen Guldsmed payed for the stone), it also displays J?rgen Hansen Guldsmed's initials and his "bom?rke" (property mark). Possibly Frands Grove was a "grovsmed" (blacksmith)? It is notable that his daughter Anne was married to a "guldsmed" (goldsmith).
J?rgen Hansen Guldsmed is said to be a cousin of J?rgen Jensen (a suggested father of the Margrethe J?rgensdatter who married Michel Olufsen and Jens Hansen Sode). This would make her the grand niece of the Anne Frandsdatter who was married to clergyman Hans J?rgensen Nestwed. So it is possible that Anne Frandsdatter had some involvement in the arrangement of Margrethe J?rgensdatter's marriage. But now I'm wondering if Margrethe J?rgensdatter was the daughter of Anne Frandsdatter and J?rgen Hansen Guldsmed, instead of his cousin J?rgen Jensen. For when the widowed Anne Frandsdatter married Hans J?rgensen Nestwed and accompanied him to Bornholm circa 1604, Margrethe J?rgensdatter would have been a young child and naturally would have accompanied her mother to Bornholm. This version bridges the gap in explaining how Margrethe came all the way from N?stved to Bornholm. Further, it is quite in keeping with the practice of the time that the step-daughter of a clergyman on Bornholm would have a marriage arranged with another clergyman on Bornholm. This version makes more sense than that of Anne Frandsdatter arranging the marriage of her deceased husband's cousin's daughter to a Bornholmer clergyman some 10-20 years after she left N?stved.
A series "Pastorum" from 1738 mentions that Michel Nielsen Nosebye had been married, widowed and remarried in 1626. The foreword to a book written in 1646, and printed in Copenhagen in 1648, refers to Michel Nielsen Nosebye as being a brother-in-law to Rasmus Pedersen Ravn, whose wife's name was Mette. This book is titled: "Inderlige Hierte-Sucke, eller Andectige B?nner imod Krig oc Orlog, Hunger oc Dyrtid, Pestilence oc andre Siugdomme, med ny Morgen oc Aften-Signelser, Bict, Communion, sampt deylige Sange for denne nerv?rende bedr?ffuelige Tids Tilstand anstillede, Tillagt en Hiertens B?n mod Fienders Tr?ngsel; fordum ved Iosuam Stegmann i Tydske Tungemaal componeret mens nu paa Dansk eftter atskillige fornemme Folcks Begiering verteret". Michel Nielsen Nosebye also had a daughter named Karen, who is mentioned in the ?ker-?kirkeby parish register, she married Lasse Brand of ?ker in 1668.
Erhard Qvistgaard's book "Pr?stehustruer, der helt eller delvis mangler i Wibergs pr?stehistorie till?g med tilf?jelser og rettelser" (Helsing?r, 1934, genoptr. Kbh. 1977) is a compendium of the wives of Danish clergymen, based on written and unwritten sources, mentions on page 47 that Anne Frandsdatter, the widow of J?rgen Hansen Guldsmed, married Hans J?rgensen Nestwed, the clergyman for Ibsker in 1604. However, his otherwise thorough work doesn't mention the sources used. In other works by him sources are quoted and here they correspond with his comments in "Pr?stehustruer"; however, I haven't found Anne Frandsdatter mentioned in his other work. So somewhere there must be a note, a probate or something else mentioning this marriage.
I don't have any sources to the ancestry of J?rgen Hansen Guldsmed and J?rgen Jensen, other than they are briefly mentioned as cousins in the four-volume work on N?stved history, but again no evidence. Yet they both seem to be happy with the names Margrethe, J?rgen and Hans. In N?stved museum there is a reference to a Hans Willadsen Guldsmed who was a goldsmith in N?stved prior to J?rgen Hansen, but no evidence that they are related in any way. I also have no further evidence of Anne Frandsdatter's ancestry other that J?rgen Hansen Guldsmed's wife is named in several works as Anne Frandsdatter, and then of course the gravestone with carries J?rgen Hansen Guldsmed's name alongside that of Anne Frandsdatter's parents.
Anne Frandsdatter had a brother named Oluf Frandsen, who was a "h?rer" (an examiner, someone who gave students exams, and listened to their recitings) at the Latin school in N?stved, he was buried December 11, 1602. Possible other siblings include: Hans Frandsen, who died as a child, a tombstone in St. Morten's Church bears the inscription "Salig med Gud 1565" (Blessed with God 1565); and Christine Frandsdatter, whose tombstone in St. Morten's Church informs us that she was first married to a Niels Simens?n, died August 10, 1612 and for a second time to Hans Christoffersen, the dates of death for Christine and her second husband are not legible.
The series "Pastorum", written by the clergyman B?rge Poscholan in 1738, states that Margrethe was the daughter of a mayor in N?stved - which I guess could still be a miswriting for both a "Byfoged" (town bailiff) and a member of the counsel, although "Byfoged" is closer to a mayor; he also mentions that Michel Olufsen with this wife had a daughter named Kirsten who married "Ridefoged" Hans Christensen (Storch) who lived at Almeg?rd. Poscholan also mentions that Jens Hansen Sode married Michel Olufsen's widow. J?rgen Hansen Guldsmed and Anne Frandsdatter are also mentioned in: "Danmarks kirker", Pr?st? amt, bd. I, p. 157; "Meddelselser om Dimitterede fra Herlufsholm fra Skolens Stiftelse 1565 til 1875", bd. I, by A. Leth & G.L. Wad, N?stved, 1875; "N?stved K?bstads Historie", bd. I-IV, by Rasmus Nielsen, N?stved, 1925-32; "Historiske Efterretninger om N?stved Latinskole og dens L?re", by Svend Arnholtz, Pr?st? Amt, 1920 (regarding their son Frands J?rgensen).
Two sons of Anne Frandsdatter ended up becoming mayors of N?stved, so this fact alone may be how Margrethe ended up being falsely called "daughter of a mayor in N?stved". No one who can be directly linked as family to J?rgen Jensen was mayor of N?stved. Oddly enough, no mention of a J?rgen Jensen as member of the town counsel can be found in the Herlufholms Birks Tingbog 1616-1619; there is a J?rgen Jensen mentioned among the "Tingm?nd" (jurors) in 1616 - his son is mentioned also as "Tingmand", however they don't seem to have lived in N?stved, but rather outside, so they may not have been burghers - meaning that J?rgen Jensen couldn't have sat on the town council in N?stved.
Anne Frandsdatter must have married J?rgen Hansen Guldsmed sometime in the mid-1570s because their son Frands J?rgensen was born in 1578. Frands was a student at Herlufsholm in 1594, he later became headmaster of the Latin school in N?stved, and was created Magister in 1602, and died young in 1608; he is mentioned in: "Kj?benhavns Universitets Historie fra 1537-1621", Bd. I-IV, Kbh. 1868-77, by Holger F. R?rdam. He is referred to as "Franciscus Georgius Nestvediensis, Schol? Nestvediensis Rector, Po?seos Candidatus" when he was awarded his Magister degree at Copenagen University by Dean M. Jon Venusinus on July 13, 1602 (p. 130.) in a book by Holger R?rdam called "Magistre creerede ved Kj?benhavns Universitet indtil 1660", Personalhistorisk Tidsskrift, 1. rk. bd. III, 1882. He is also mentioned in "Kj?benhavns Universitets Historie", bd. III, p. 726.
Another son, Hans J?rgensen is likely the eldest; he was also called "Hans J?rgensen Nestwed". It is odd that he is known by the name "Nestwed" (N?stved) at all; normally someone uses as a last name the name of a city would only be used by someone who lived somewhere else other than where they were born. Hans J?rgensen didn't go to university, but did go to the "metropolitanskolen" in K?benhavn: he was a student there under the name "Hans J?rgensen Nestwed" and he kept that name when he moved back to N?stved. According to a note in Herlufholms Birks Tingbog 1616-1619, p. 125, Hans J?rgensen Nestwed was "Byfoged" (bailiff) from 1604-18, and a member of the town counsel in 1616 and 1619, and was Shrovetide-Mayor (Fastelavnsborgmester) and member of the town counsel sometime between 1620-42. Between 1620 and 1642 in N?stved they had a system in which they changed the mayor yearly on "Fastelavn S?ndag" (Shrovetide Sunday) so that a new person was mayor for a year, yet a person could be mayor several times. But they discovered it was too complicated a system and discarded it. In St. Morten's Church there can be found three mentions of Hans J?rgensen painted on the "stolestader" (church pews), all carry the same "bom?rke" (property mark): 1) Hans J?rgensen, Anne Pedersd. - 1602; 2) Hans J?rgensen, Maren Jensd. - 1602; 3) Hans J?rgensen, Marren Jensd. - 1625. This tells us that Hans J?rgensen Nestwed must have lost his first wife, Anne Pedersdatter, in 1602. Then was married to his second wife, Maren Jensdatter in 1602, and that she was still living in 1625. Maren was the daughter of Jens Andersen Blasius/Blassus, a member of the town counsel. Hans J?rgensen had a son named Oluf Hansen, mentioned in 1633, p. 379. "N?stved K?bstads Historie", by Rasmus Nielsen, bd. 4, 1932, p. 45-48, tells us that May of 1619 he was involved in a legal matter between the then mayor and a tailor. In 1622 a farmer was yelling and screaming outside "Hans J?rgensen Raadmands" house in the night calling him a "kalvesigner" and that all the mayors and aldermen in N?stved was a bunch of "Tyvetr?kkere" (thieves), the farmer later claimed he was drunk and apologized and nothing further happened. Hans J?rgensen, Henrich Jensen, Rasmus J?rgensen and a few others are referred to as "the young aldermen who stick together" - so maybe they were very young for such an important job. Hans and Henrich Jensen were married to sisters (the daughters of Jens Andersen Blasius), so they may naturally have "stuck together".
Her son named Rasmus J?rgensen Skriver (c.1580-1651) was a "Byfoged" (bailiff) and later the "Borgmester" (mayor) in N?stved, he was married to Magdalene Mogensdatter; there is an epitaph with both their names in St. Peder's Church in N?stved. Rasmus J?rgensen appears in 1616, 1617 and 1618 as "Skriffuer" (Skriver: a clerk) - he is called "Rasmus J?rgensen Borgmester" (mayor) in 1632 (Tingbog: fol. 13r, in the printed book p. 110). An epitaph in St. Peder's Church, dated to 1625, depicts Rasmus, his wife and their 11 children: 4 sons (3 dead), 4 daughters (1 dead), and 3 children who died as infants.
A fourth son is Jens J?rgensen, about whom nothing is known. He and his wife Maren Michelsdatter are only known because of a church pew in St. Morten's Church with the date 1603 (now in the National museum) which displays the same "bom?rke" as his brother Hans J?rgensen Nestwed.
This database researched and compiled by Norman Lee Madsen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 21 July 2015.
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