Helge Almquist on Kristina's 1654 stay in Hamburg, in "Personhistorisk tidskrift", year 1910

Source:

Drottning Kristina i Hamburg år 1654, article written by Helge Almquist for Personhistorisk tidskrift, tolfte årgången: 1910, pages 22 to 23, published by Carl Magnus Stenbock, 1911; original at the Allen County Public Library

https://archive.org/details/personhistoriskt1112pers_0/page/n51/mode/2up

Arnold Isselhorst's letter of July 3/13 (New Style), 1654 to Jakob Westhoff is here:

https://kingkristina.blogspot.com/2024/08/arnold-isselhorsts-letter-to-jakob.html

His letter of July 10/20 (New Style), 1654 to Westhoff is here:

https://kingkristina.blogspot.com/2024/08/arnold-isselhorsts-letter-to-jakob_12.html

Carl Soop's letter of July 8/18 (Old Style), 1654 to Karl Gustav is here:

https://kingkristina.blogspot.com/2024/08/carl-soops-letter-to-karl-gustav-dated.html

The account:

IV. Drottning Kristina i Hamburg år 1654.

Om drottning Kristinas vistelse i Hamburg under sin utresa från Sverige är 1654 förekomma åtskilliga notiser i litteraturen (t. ex. hos Arckenholtz, Mémoires concernant Christine, I, Amsterdam och Leipzig 1751, s. 450 f.)[.] Utförliga upplysningar från vederhäftigt håll föreligga i den kejserlige residenten v. Plettenbergs delvis äfven rent politiskt intressanta depescher, som äro tryckta i Hist. Tidskr. 1884 (Bref upplysande svenska historien; s. 347 ff.). Af annan karaktär äro nedan tryckta meddelanden från en i Lübeck sig uppehållande danzigsk diplomat till en vän i hemstaden (Orig. bland Acta internuntiorum LXXXIX i statsarkivet i Danzig.); de innehålla ett återljud af dagens on dit i hanseborgerliga kretsar och gifva en del rätt pittoreska detaljer om drottningens yttre uppträdande, i sina hufvuddrag bekräftade af andra källor. Som jämförelse äger det sitt intresse att taga kännedom också om en relation från svenskt håll, friherre Carl Soops bref till konung Carl X Gustaf, som jämväl här aftryckes (Orig. i Riksarkivet bland Bref till konung Carl X Gustaf.).

English translation (my own):

IV. Queen Kristina in Hamburg in 1654.

Various accounts in the literature (e.g., in Arckenholtz, Mémoires concernant Christine, I, Amsterdam and Leipzig, 1751, pp. 450 ff.) document Queen Kristina's stay in Hamburg during her departure from Sweden in 1654. Detailed and reliable information is available in the dispatches of the imperial resident von Plettenberg — dispatches that are also of considerable political interest — which were published in Historisk Tidskrift in 1884 (Bref upplysande svenska historien, pp. 347 ff.). Of a different nature are the communications printed below, sent by a diplomat from Danzig — then staying in Lübeck — to a friend in his home city (Originals among Acta internuntiorum LXXXIX in the State Archives in Danzig); these reflect the contemporary gossip circulating in Hanseatic civic circles and provide some rather vivid details regarding the Queen's outward demeanour — details that are, in their main outlines, corroborated by other sources. For the sake of comparison, it is also of interest to examine an account from the Swedish side: the letter from Baron Carl Soop to King Karl X Gustav, which is likewise reproduced here (Original in the National Archives [Riksarkivet] among Bref till konung Karl X Gustav.).

Above: Kristina.

Above: Helge Almquist.

Note: Danzig is the German name for what is now the Polish city of Gdańsk.