1. Ove Gjedde was a Danish nobleman and Admiral of the Realm.
10 Facts About Ove Gjedde
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Ove Gjedde established the Danish colony at Tranquebar and constructed Fort Dansborg as the base for the Danish settlement.
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Ove Gjedde completed a tour of Germany and the Netherlands, returning in 1616 when he was appointed secretary of the Danish Chancellery.
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Ove Gjedde established Fort Dansborg at Tranquebar in 1620, which would remain a Danish colony for 200 years.
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Ove Gjedde participated in the Torstenson War as an admiral and in 1645 he was made Admiral of the Realm.
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When king Charles X Gustav of Sweden broke the peace of 1658, Ove Gjedde was taken prisoner, during a visit to Helsingborg.
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Ove Gjedde was first sent to prison in Helsingborg castle and later sent to Malmo.
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At the time Ove Gjedde was an old and physically weak man, but although he had already commissioned a grave monument in Helsingborg, because this had now become Swedish, when he died he was buried in the crypt of Roskilde Cathedral.
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In 1622, Ove Gjedde married Dorothy Knudsdatter Urne, daughter of Knud Axelsen Urne til Arsmarke and Margrethe Eilersdatter Grubbe til Alslev.
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Ove Gjedde's wife was a sister of Christoffer Urne who served as Steward of Norway.