Christen Friis

Christen Friis (1581–1639) was a Danish nobleman, politician, and patron of arts and science.

Christen Friis
Christen Friis by Simon van de Passe

He was a son of Jørgen Friis and Else Bjørn, and a nephew of Johan Friis, from whom he inherited Borreby Castle. He inherited the manor of Kragerup in 1610. He bought Lindholm manor in 1633.[1]

Christen Friis was Chancellor of Denmark from 1616.[2] Friis was an opponent of the continuation of the Kalmar War and advocated peace measures to Christian IV of Denmark.[3]

He was a patron of the astronomer Christen Sørensen Longomontanus and the historians Johannes Pontanus and Johannes Meursius, and a friend of the natural historian Ole Worm.[4]

He married Barbara Wittrup (d. 1653). Their children included Hans Friis.[5]

He died in 1639.

References
  1. Ole Degn, Christian 4.s kansler: Christen Friis til Kragerup (1581-1639) som menneske og politiker (Landsarkivet for Nørrejylland, 1988).
  2. Steffen Heiberg, Christian IV and Europe (Copenhagen, 1988), p. 62.
  3. Paul Douglas Lockhart, Denmark in the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (Susquehanna U. P., 1996), pp. 70, 163, 194.
  4. Karen Skovgaard-Petersen, 'By the direction of the most noble and distinguised Christen Friis: The influence of Chancellor Christen Friis on the histories of Denmark by (1571-1639) and (1579-1639)', Daphnis 32 (1-2), (January 2003), pp. 199-229.
  5. Thomas Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot, vol. 2 (Odense, 1988), p. 285.
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