Excerpt from Peder Juel's letter to Peder Charisius, dated May 1652

Source:

Bidrag til Dronning Christinas, det svenske Hofs og Corfitz Ulfeldts Historie, i Aarene 1651-1655, af Peder Juul's utrykte Breve til Charisius, article by Christian Molbech in Historisk tidsskrift, volume 5, page 327, published by Den Danske Historiske Forening, 1844

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The letter excerpt:

"Under-Cantsleren af Polen har Ordre fra Ragotzy, og adskillige malcontents i Polen, at skynde Kronen Sverrige til Krig imod Kongen; og de Andre ville hielpe Ragotzy til Kronen; dog holdes dette meget hemmeligt. Men uanseet at Dronningen offentlig og mange Gange haver fortalt, at Bengt Skytte imod hendes Villie var reist til Constantinopel: saa mærker jeg dog, at han havde expresse Ordre baade at reise did, og til Siebenbürgen, at søge paa begge Steder alliance mod Kongen af Polen." ...

With modernised spelling:

"Underkansleren af Polen har ordre fra Rákóczi, og adskillige malcontents i Polen, at skynde Kronen Sverige til krig imod kongen; og de andre ville hjælpe Rákóczi til Kronen, dog holdes dette meget hemmeligt. Men uanset at dronningen offentlig og mange gange haver fortalt, at Bengt Skytte imod hendes vilje var rejst til Konstantinopel, så mærker jeg dog, at han havde ekspresse ordre både at rejse did, og til Siebenbürgen, at søge på begge Steder alliance mod kongen af Polen." ...

English translation (my own):

"The Vice-Chancellor of Poland has orders from Rákóczi, and several malcontents in Poland, to hasten the Crown of Sweden to war against the King; and the others would help Rákóczi to the Crown, yet this is kept very secret. But notwithstanding that the Queen has publicly and many times told that Bengt Skytte had gone to Constantinople against her will, I notice, however, that he had express orders both to go there and to Transylvania, to seek in both places an alliance against the king of Poland." ...

Above: Kristina.

Above: Bengt Skytte.

Notes: Transylvania is a historical and cultural region in Central and Eastern Europe, namely in the Carpathian Mountains of central Romania. In the 17th century Transylvania was a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire, but it had duel suzerainty between the Ottoman Empire and the Austrian Habsburg Empire, although the Habsburg monarchy did not gain control of Transylvania (through the Hungarian crown) until 1690, the year after Kristina's death.

Constantinople is the old name for what is now the city of Istanbul in Turkey.