She was gifted, headstrong and powerful. Historians could not understand that

Kristeligt Dagblad

She was gifted, headstrong and powerful. Historians could not understand that

Birgitte Gøye was a rich sheriff and educated the first generation of Lutheran noblewomen in Denmark. Several hundred years after her death, she was reduced by historians to her husband's wife. Now the dr.phil. Grethe Jacobsen writes the first biography of one of the most powerful women in Danish history