Sogneprest Mads Mikkelsen Schytte

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Lyngdal bydgebok, Vol.2, p.352-353. + Mads Mikkelsen Schytte was priest in Lyngdal from 1565 to 1579, according to the parish book. He was possibly son of Mikkel Skytt, priest at Avaldsnes and later in Vanse, and perhaps the grandson (son's son) of the earlier Lyngdal priest Rasmus Mikkelsen. Herr Mads had a niece (sister's daughter) who was married to Hans Jensen Straumsland in Lista. We know the wife of the priest was called Ingri. Arne Stuestøl and Kaare Pedersen, who have worked hard to get the Schytte family charted, believe that the following in all likelihood were the children of Mads Mikelsen: Rasmus (see below), Mikkel Moi in Kvås and Laurids (Lars) ytre Foss. Before he became priest, Mads Mikkelsen had been bailiff in Lister Len, which in the 1560s was mortgaged to the Danish noble woman Sophie Lykke. Doubt was raised as to whether Mads actually did right and as to accuracy towards the lenherre when the len's incomes were paid and in 1566 he was summoned to the Herredagen (Council of Nobles) in Bergen. Here settlement was reached between Mads and fru Sophie, but the newly fledged parish priest had to comit himself to pay her a great amount of money. In 1578 he was summoned anew before the Herredagen this time in Oslo. The two daughters of Sophie Lykke wanted to have final settlement for what he owed their mother and besides for what he had since collected of taxes from the len's farmers. As his representative he had the bailiff Bent Nilsen, living at Bringsjord and neighbour of the priest. Mads Mikkelsen submitted a part of the recipts and was partly acquitted by the Herredagen, but otherwise had to pay so far as he could not demonstrate to have acquitted himself. The Lista priest Christoffer Mikkelsen, probably brother of Mads Mikkelsen, was in 1570 succeeded by the infamous Jørgen Hemmingsen Storch. Vanse was without a doubt a fatter parish than Lyngdal, and Mads Mikkelsen made repeated attempts to get a roof in Vanse parish. He wrote to his collegue in Lista and proposed an exchange of parish, but got a blank refusal. After that Herr Mads went to Claus Hack, the agent for fru Adeluds Benkestok at Hanager, and tried through bribery to get the influence of the noble woman to procure him the parish. This was not much use. Then it happened in 1572 that a servant girl at Å parsonage, Marine Gaas, became pregnant. Mads Mikkelsen accused first the Listerlander, Povel Jensen Høyland, who also had a servant in the parsonage, of being the child's father and held back 6 "tønner" of barley of his outstanding credit. At the birth however Marine Gaas swore that it was the Vanse priest, Herr Jørgen, who was actually the father. The case came up before the Cathedral Chapter in Stavanger the autumn of 1572, and there it was discovered that the whole affair was one of Mads Mikkelsen's attempts to force his way to the Vanse parish. It was he who got Marine to allege Jørgen Storch as the child's father, and the priest's wife Ingri had as compensation promised the servant girl an old brown English cape with a gilt buckle. Jørgen was of course acquitted and cleared, and it seems that Mads Mikkelsen himself got off unreasonable cheaply from his miserable intriguing. The wretched Marine Gaas was on the other hand branded as "a disloyal and immoral beast of a person, who no man ought to believe". The year later, in 1573, both Mads Mikkelsen and Jørgen Storch were called in together with the other priests of the len by the bishop in Stavanger Jørgen Eriksen to a priest's moot. The background was an order from the king to "let [forfare] which parish priests in Listerlen who had their wives and since befound to lead a wicked life at whorery and other improper ways, that they could be [bliffue] removed from office and send [tilskickende] other honorable and able men in their place". All the attending priests had with them testimony from both dean and common people that they had behaved "as noble and honorable servants of God's words both in learning and life"...'

Reference: Book

Lyngdal II 353.

Prest Mads Mikkelsen Schlytte was prest i Vanse. He married Ingri (--?--) He was born before 1565 at Vanse, Lista, Vest Agder,Norway.

Ingri (--?--) died at Prestegården, Lyngdal, Lyngdal, Vest Agder., Norway. She married prest Mads Mikkelsen Schlytte, son of prest Mikkel Rasmussen Skytt Avaldsnes.

Alt. birth dates c. 1540 and 1565.