Kjeld Stub

Who was Kjeld Stub?

Kjeld Lauridsen Stub was a Dano-Norwegian priest. He was also involved in the Thirty Years' War in various roles.

He was born in Varberg, then-Denmark as a son of vicar Laurids Kjeldsen Stub and his wife Margrethe Hansdatter. He attended school in Landskrona and Slagelse before studying at the University of Copenhagen from 1626 to 1628. During a subsequent travel around continental Europe, he volunteered in Brabant to fight for the Holy Roman Empire in the Thirty Years' War. He reached the rank of Captain before leaving in 1631. He was a teacher in Copenhagen for less than a year, before going on another travel in Europe. This time he volunteered for the Kingdom of France. In 1635, he left the French army, finished his university education and was appointed as vicar in Christiania, one of the larger towns in the then-province Norway.

In 1636, he married the daughter of Christiania bishop Nils Simonssøn Glostrup, but she died in 1641. In the same year Stub lost his position after a dispute with Christiania's burgomaster; Stub instead became vicar of rural Ullensaker. From 1643 to 1645 he participated in the Thirty Years' War for the third time, this time as a counsellor for Hannibal Sehested in the Hannibal War. He had an informal command over those who defended the Norway–Sweden border. He was probably the writer of the description of contemporary events titled Aggershusiske Acters første Quartaels summariske Beskriffuelse paa nerverende Aar 1644 flitteligen samlet oc forfattet.