Otte Rud
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Otte Knudsen Rud til Møgelkjær |
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| Born | May 20, 1520 |
| Died | October 11, 1565 (aged 45) Svartsjö castle, Sweden (POW) |
| Buried | Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen |
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 Denmark
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| Service/branch |
 Royal Danish Navy
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| Years of service | 1563-1565 |
| Rank | Admiral |
| Spouse(s) | Pernille Oxe, 1549 |
| Relations | Peder Oxe, brother-in-law |
| The King of Denmark's Lensmand of Dragsholm len |
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In office 1549–1551 |
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| The King of Denmark's Lensmand of Gotland |
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In office 1551–1557 |
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| The King of Denmark's Lensmand of Venslev len |
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In office 1554–1558 |
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| The King of Denmark's Lensmand of Odensegård len |
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In office 1559–1561 |
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| The King of Denmark's Lensmand of Korsør len |
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In office 1562 – 1574 Held by the widow after his death. |
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Otte Ruud, born 1520, died 1565, was a Danish admiral during the Northern Seven Years' War, who died in Swedish captivity. He spent his youth in foreign military service, and then held different fiefs from the King. Called up to duty during the war, he at first distinguished himself at land, later becoming a ship's captain, and finally admiral commanding the Danish fleet.
Otte Rud was the son of the privy councellor Knud Jørgensen Rud of Vedby and Møgelkjær. He began his education at Sorø Abbey, came to the House of Mansfeld as a page, and then served the House of Schwarzburg, becoming an esquire at 18, and fighting in the Bishop of Munster's war against the anabaptists. Rud then fought in the service of Saxony in its war against Brunswick. Back in Denmark, he became a courtier 1543, married 1549, and received his first fief the same year.
At the outbreak of the Northern Seven Years' War in 1563, Rud was sent to Elfsborg Castle as commissary of war under Daniel Rantzau. He distinguished himself at the battle of Mared the same year, and the King made him captain of the warship Byens Løve (56 guns).Byens Løve belonged to Herluf Trolle's fleet when it met the Swedes at the first battle of Öland in the spring of 1564. During the second day of the battle Byens Løve and the Lübeck ship Engel boarded the Swedish flagship Mars, and manage to take captive the Swedish admiral Jakob Bagge, his second-in-command, and about 100 Swedish sailors before the burning Mars exploded.
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