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Lund. Because of his Danish family connections, Nordeman was allowed to stay in Scania when the Danes came back, but in
November 1676 he was arrested on the charge of espionage. He had employed two Swedish students to spy for the Swedes. Nordeman ended up in a Danish prison and was later sent to Sweden.
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In his youth, Mikkelsen served as an officer in the Danish army and later he worked in the
Chancellor of the Exchequer's offices in Copenhagen and he was a faithful servant to King Christian IV. At around this time, Mikkelsen rented an estate called Spannerup (now Spannarp) in the eastern province of
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In June 1677, Mikkelsen was also reported to be a
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Denmark sought to re-take Scania, Mikkelsen and many other landowners and prominent men of Danish origin attempted to placate both the Swedish and the Danish kings. His daughter Anna Catharina had married a Swede called Martin Nordeman who was a professor at the University of
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cavalry employed on a mercenary basis by the Danish crown. According to the
Ehrenborg family tradition, it was Captain Severin and Lille Mads, both prominent friskytter, who led the troops that demanded access to the castle. Although the castle was looted and burnt, the Mikkelsen family and their
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Howdale Castle had
Swedish troops posted there in 1677, as part of the small war campaign that was being fought against the Danes. At this time, parts of Scania was a no man's land where Danes and Swedes fought ferocious small party warfare in which the
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In the years following the end of the war, Mikkelsen had new buildings constructed to replace those that had been destroyed; only the tower guarding the entrance to the castle was saved.
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servants saved themselves by escaping through a back door and across the moat. Ultimately, the order to attack the castle came from the Danish headquarters.
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Denmark. Jens Mikkelsen chose to stay in Scania and swore his
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