Birgitte Gøye was a Danish county administrator, lady in waiting

Lady in Waiting

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, landholder and noble

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, co-founder and principal

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 of Herlufsholm School.

She was the daughter of Mogens Gøye

Mogens Gøye

Mogens Gøye was a Danish statesman and Steward of the Realm, whose enormous wealth earned him the derogatory nickname "the King of Northern Jutland". Gøye was the Royal councillor of Danish Kings John I, the feuding Christian II and Frederick I, and Christian III...

 and Mette Bydelsbak and the sister of Eline Gøye. She was raised in a convent, Ringkloster, and became lady in waiting to the queen, Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg

Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg

Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg , consort of Christian III from 1525 and Queen consort of Denmark and Norway. She was daughter of Duke Magnus I of Saxe-Lauenburg and Catherine, daughter of Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg...

, in 1538. She had been engaged against her will by her family to Jesper Daa

Daa

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 in 1525, but in 1540, she was freed from the engagement, which until 1582 was in fact as binding as a marriage: thanks to her friendship to the queen, the king had the professors and bishops investigate the matter, and issued a new law, which banned parents from arranging engagements of their minors children. She married courtier Herluf Trolle

Herluf Trolle

Herluf Trolle was a Danish naval hero, born at Lillö, Scania.- Early life :Herluf Trolle was born of the Trolle, a Swedish-originated family of high nobility, was son of Kirsten Herlufsdatter Skave and sir Joachim Arvidsen Trolle, Lord of Lilloe; thus grandson of justiciar Arvid Trolle, Lord of...

 in 1544. She had no issue, but raised many foster daughters from the nobility in her home and arranged their marriages.

In 1565, she founded the Herlufsholm School by donating her estate Skovkloster to it, and functioned as its principal until 1567.
She was the county administrator of Tølløse

Tølløse

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 until 1566 and Kappelgården ved Køge and Ringkloster until 1571.

Litterature

• Axel Liljefalk: Herluf Trolle og Birgitte Gjøe, deres Liv, deres Gerning, 1910.
• G.L. Wad (red.): Breve til og fra Herluf Trolle og Birgitte Gjøe, 1893.
• T.A. Becker: Herluf Trolle og Birgitte Gøie, 1885.