1. Corfitz Ulfeldt was educated abroad, concluding with one year under Cesare Cremonini at Padua.
10 Facts About Corfitz Ulfeldt
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In 1637 Corfitz Ulfeldt married Leonora Christina who was the daughter of the King.
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Corfitz Ulfeldt had been betrothed to him since her ninth year.
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Corfitz Ulfeldt was the most striking personality at the Danish court in all superficial accomplishments, but his character was marked by ambition, avarice and absolute lack of honor or conscience.
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Corfitz Ulfeldt, supported by the Rigsrad and the nobility, who objected to Christian's fiscal policy, resisted his father-in-law, and triumphed completely.
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Corfitz Ulfeldt's purpose was twofold: humiliate his monarch and secure a personal fortune.
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Corfitz Ulfeldt even loaned the Swedish king a fortune to finance the war with money that, it is believed, was embezzled from the Danish state.
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Corfitz Ulfeldt's treason was rewarded by Charles X of Sweden with ennoblement as the Count of Solvesborg in Blekinge; however a discontented Corfitz Ulfeldt instead began intriguing against his new master.
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Corfitz Ulfeldt escaped from the country, but the sentence was actually carried out on his effigy; and a pillory was erected on the ruins of his mansion at Copenhagen.
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Corfitz Ulfeldt spent twenty-one years in confinement in the royal dungeon, Blatarn, prior to her release during 1685.