Drude Pedersdatter Jepsen

Drude (Gertrud) Pedersdatter Jepsen

Formodentlig datter af købmand i Flensborg Peter Jepsen (ca. 1480-1525) og Catharine Jensdatter Lorup (1485-1522). Arvede 1541 en ejendom efter Claus Potter, efter al sandsynlighed hendes stedfar. Som enke fortsatte hun købmandsskabet, hjulpet af sin senere svigersøn Harder Vake. Hun "vandt kongehusets uindskrænkede tillid, blev foruden i handelssager benyttet i et meget stort antal pengesager, og var ved sin død utvivlsomt Danmarks rigeste borgerlige kvinde"

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• RESIDENCE: 6 barn
• BIRTH: 1510, (Gertrud) Flensburg
• DEATH: 1565, Flensburg
• BURIAL: 21 Jul 1565, St. Nicolai kirke, Flensburg

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"der ved sin død utvilsomt var Danmarks rigeste borgerlige kvinde". Fortsatte etter sin manns død forretningen ved hjelp av sin "svend" Harder Vake som i 1562 ble hennes svigersønn. Hun vant kongehusets hele tillit og ble benyttet i utallige pengesaker.

Drude Jepson Born 1510 in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She continued running her husband's businesses after his death. In 1559 she made an inventory of her fortune, which added up to 11.000 pounds (Lübsch). This made her the richest woman in Denmark. Her children donated many items to the Sct Nicolai Church of Flensburg. She died 7/21/1565 in Flensburg.(Father XV:200, Mother XV:201, Husband XIV:155, Child XIII:130)

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She continued the business of her husband, partly by means of her later son in law Harder Vake. A bill from 1554 to the king, Christian the 3rd, in total of 700 Thaler for the consumption of silk and cloth of his son duke Magnus, bishop of Øsel in Estonia, later king of Latvia is still preserved in the Royal Archives. In 1559 she made an inventory on her fortune which added up to 11.000 pounds ‎(Lübsch)‎. So she was perhaps the richest commoner woman in all Denmark at the time. This fortune was carefully spread by the children who donated many items to the Sct Nicolai Church of Flensburg and was the background to the studies of their children at European universities, so the tradition was laid for Thomas Fincke, her grandson, as well.