person
Leonora Christina Ulfeldt
Leonora Christina
also: the incomparable Eleonore, Eleonore
Leonora Christina (1621-1698), daughter of Christian IV and Kirstine Munk, wife of Corfitz Ulfeldt; called 'the incomparable,' she was imprisoned twenty-two years in the Blue Tower after his fall and wrote the memoir Jammers Minde. The portrait shows her 'before her tribulation.'
Reading notes
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §181 the 'incomparable' Eleonore
Leonora Christina (1621-1698), daughter of Christian IV and Kirstine Munk, wife of Corfitz Ulfeldt; after his fall she spent twenty-two years in the Blue Tower and wrote her prison-memoir Jammers Minde. The portrait catches her on a white palfrey 'before her tribulation.'