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Here he started working for the Swedish king and didn’t just tell him every Danish secret he knew, but deliberate did everything he could to enrage the swedes against the Danes, so they would declare them war.
After a few years he succeeded and he didn’t just help the Swedish tropes from the front lines (again with a bunch of important information about the Danish army and the landscape), he also let the Swedish king borrow insane amounts of money from him that he had stolen from the Danish treasury. Money that was then used to buy mercenaries for the invasion.
The swedes won and Ulfeldt got his own lands back and even a Danish island for his troubles. But it wasn’t long before the Swedish king also started being annoyed with Ulfeldt who now fled back to Denmark where he was arrested.
For some insane reason he was eventually allowed to leave the country because he said he needed to go to a spa for his health. Of course he didn’t go to a spa and fled Denmark once again. This time he went to a bunch of different kings in Europe and tried to get them in on his crazy schemes essentially. He also gave the skull of one of the biggest Danish saints to the French, another thing he had stolen.
He even tried to arrange a coup of the Danish throne, but without luck. The Danes never got him again, but his wife was famously imprisoned in a tower for 22 years, essentially in her husband’s place.
Ulfeldt was so hated in Denmark that a “statue of shame” was erected for him, that people were supposed to spit on as they walked past. It stood in Copenhagen for hundreds of years.
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