Ludwig Von Munthe

1520 - 1580  (60 years)

• Name	Ludwig Von Munthe
  Birth	1520	Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Kjøpmann (Merchant)
  Death	1580	Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
  Person ID	I942	Master
  Last Modified	13 Jul 2012

  
  

  Father	Generalmajor Adam Von Munthe,   b. Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium d. 1545, Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
  Family ID	F264	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elisabeth Johannesdatter Paludan,   b. 1535, Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium d. 1578, Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (Age 43 years)
  Marriage	1550	Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany   [3]
  Children	+ 1. Hans Ludvigsen Munthe,   b. 1560, Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany d. 5 Sep 1601, Tikøb, Helsingør, Frederiksborg, Denmark (Age 41 years)
  Family ID	F263	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1520 - Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium Marriage - 1550 - Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Death - 1580 - Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  An old Flemish family, "van Munte" has its name from a place still called Munte. It lies in the province of Oost-Vlandern about 12Km south of Ghent, Belgium. First evidence of the van Muntes is an old Latin gift letter from the year 990, in which it was spelled Monte. In the following 300 years it is variously Munte, Monte, Munta and Monthe, in the 13th century also Munthe, but the normal way of spelling it was Munte. In 1072 a diploma was witnessed by Ascricus van Munte. Ascricus is the first person that with certainty is the ancestor of the family, as in earlier times one would only sign his first name, sometimes with the addition of the fathers. The earliest mention of the name Munte is in 990, but no records are available until in 1072. So, the van Munthe line traces back to the year 1072, Ghent Belgium. Ascricus Munte married an unknown woman in 1102 in St Peters Church in Ghent, Belgium. He died after 1114. Family members became Priests and Bishops of the State Churches. They held high positions in St Peters Church in Ghent. Given the coat of arms by Emperor Maximilian in a letter of recognition dated Antwerpen 20 March 1509. From the age of the crusades the ancient knight families lost much of their power and wealth, and when Flanders, after the death of Ludwig II, was left to the house of Burgundy and the new lords mostly surrounded themselves with foreign nobles many of the "native" families vanished. Many drifted towards the cities like Ghent, and in the 15th century the family van Munte seems to have settled here. In the first half of the 16th century the family van Munte disappears from Ghent. Actually they fled because of a failed uprising against the Spanish Empire of Charles V in 1539. Flanders in general and Ghent in particular were an international centre of trade and industry and therefore an important source of revenue for Spain. The revolt was a reaction to high taxes, which the Flemish felt, were only used to fight wars abroad. The emperor - who was himself born in Ghent - personally came to the city to suppress the rebellion and obliged the city's nobles to walk in front of him, barefoot and with a strop around the neck. Since this incident the people of Ghent have taken on the sobriquet Stroppendragers (noose bearers). During the Reformation period many of these families fled to Lubeck in Germany and later to Scandinavia. Ludvig Munthe was a merchant in Lubeck. One of his sons was the first Munthe in Sweden, priest Ludvig Ludvigsen Munthe i Lund, and another son was Hans Ludvigsen Munthe, who became parish rector in Tikøb in Denmark, he died in 1601 together with his wife and a newborn son. The second son of merchant Ludvig Munthe and Elisabeth Paludan, according to his epitaph. (No information is known about his early youth.) At the early age of 25 Hans (as his brother Ludvig) worked as page-steward to the Danish royal court during the reign of King Fredrick II. He and his brother were approved as teachers and guides for his sons. There is good reason to believe that the two Munthe boys found guidance and support from their mother's sister Barbara Paludan and her husband court preacher Christopher Knoff also originally a Dutch emigrant. There probably was a close relationship between the emigrant families de Fine, Knoff, Munthe and Paludan all working at court. On 22 January 158 5 by royal commission Hans was appointed to be Duke Ulrich's teacher to assist him with educating the little squires. Ulrich was the second oldest son of the king while Hans' brother Ludvig worked for the crown prince in a similar position. After eighteen months Hans was appointed parish rector of Tikøb between Helsingør and Gilleleje 20 June 1586. Shortly after this he married Catherine de Fine. They probably met each other at the court of the royal Fredericksborg Castle. After fifteen years in Tikøb, fourteen years of marriage he died at the age of 41 in September 1601. Also his wife and one son died during this period all victim s of the plague. In 1608 an epitaph was erected by their children. Munthe Familien & deres børn Ludvig von Munthe was born in Ghent, Belgium in 1520. He was the son of Maj. Gen. Adam Munthe the mother is unknown, and the son of Abel Munthe. The family had to flee in 1539, together with a part Gentere, since they participated in a failure of the rebellion against the Spanish ruler and refused to pay a new tax as it had been ordered to pay them. Ludvig reduced itself as a merchant in Lübeck, Germany, but remained steady, with its commercial connection in the Dutch handelsbyer. The father, Adam von Munthe, died in 1547 in Lübeck. In 1550 Ludwig von Munthe married Elisabeth Paludan in Lübeck. She was also an emigrant of the Netherlands-the daughter of Hans Paludan and Barbara Rone. Ludvig von Munthe and Elisabeth Paludan had at least 2 sons, Ludvig Ludvigsen Munthe and Hans Ludvigsen Munthe -the latter born in 1660.

  
  

• Sources

  [S16] Lester Welhaven Hansen, Anderson-Krogh Genealogy, (Lester Welhaven Hansen, St. Petersburg FL, 1956). [S16] Lester Welhaven Hansen, Anderson-Krogh Genealogy, (Lester Welhaven Hansen, St. Petersburg FL, 1956). http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=5532189&pid=-1441228895 [S16] Lester Welhaven Hansen, Anderson-Krogh Genealogy, (Lester Welhaven Hansen, St. Petersburg FL, 1956), Page 29. The Munthe family, like the Kroghs, came from Germany, where in 1550 a merchant, Ludvig von Munthe of Lubeck, married Elizabeth Paludan, daughter of the Dutch doctor of medicine and professor of physics Hans (Johannes) Paludan of Ghent (born 1497) and Barbara van der Rone. A son, Pastor Hans Ludvigson von Munthe, born in 1560 at Lubeck, came as clergyman to Denmark where in 1586 he married Catharina de Fine, daughter of Hofkapelmester Arnold de Fine, director of music at the palace of King Christian III. Both died from the "Black Death" in 1601.