Iver Krabbe
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March 22, 1602 Övedskloster Manor |
| Died | October 30, 1666 (aged 64) Gunderslevholm, Zealand |
| Occupation | Military officer |
Iver Krabbe (March 22, 1602 – October 30, 1666) was a Danish nobleman, military officer, and governor-general in Norway.
Iver Krabbe was born at Övedskloster Manor in southern Sweden, the son of Tage Krabbe (1553–1612) and Sofie Jørgensdatter Friis (1576–1611). He studied in Orléans and then in Padua in 1625, and returned home in 1628. There he was made a lesser noble at the court, but he left the post on August 25 that year, when he married Karen Ottesdatter Marsvin (1610–1680) at Copenhagen Castle. A year later he was enfeoffed with Laholm, which he exchanged for Varberg in 1636. In 1636 he became the commander of the union troops in the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, and in 1641 he was ordered to inspect Bohus Fortress.
During the war with Sweden, Krabbe held a position of authority. In early February 1645, he received orders to join forces with Hannibal Sehested, who was positioned at Bohus. This did not lead to anything, but then in April 1645 he had a successful engagement against Swedish forces at Kungsbacka. Shortly afterwards, the Second Treaty of Brömsebro was signed and the province of Halland was pledged to Sweden. With a heavy heart, Krabbe was forced to turn over his fortress to the enemy in September, after having written in vain to Corfitz Ulfeldt to be spared doing so. The war also affected Krabbe at a more personal level because Swedish forces had burned Jordbjærg farm, his property in Scania, in 1644.
In 1646, Krabbe received Båhuslen county as a replacement for Varberg, he was named a knight at the 1648 coronation of Frederick III of Denmark, and during the following period he was involved in renovating border fortifications. With the approach of the Second Northern War, in 1657 he was named a major general in charge of southern Norway. He was assigned responsibility for preparing for war, and in April he was called to Copenhagen to confer with Frederick III. During the war itself, however, he was not involved in any major engagements; he was mainly involved in border skirmishes. In September and October 1657 he led a diversion into Halland, but it had to be abandoned because of a lack of provisions and also partly due to lack of support from the Danish army in Scania. In November, he gathered his forces at Uddevalla against a Swedish attack from Vänersborg, but was unable to obtain support from Niels Trolle, the governor-general of Norway at Akershus Fortress. In January 1658, the fortress at Uddevalla also fell. Krabbe soon managed to take it back, but immediately afterward Båhuslen was lost to Sweden under the Treaty of Roskilde.
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