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Leonora Christina, Countess Ulfeldt, née Countess Leonora Christina Christiansdatter til Slesvig og Holsten (8 July 1621 – 16 March 1698), was the daughter of King Christian IV of Denmark and his second wife, Kirsten Munk; and wife of Steward of the Realm–cum–traitor Count Corfitz Ulfeldt. Renowned in Denmark since the 19th century for her posthumously published autobiography, Jammers Minde, written secretly during two decades of solitary confinement in a royal dungeon, her intimate version of the major events she witnessed in Europe's history, interwoven with ruminations on her woes as a political prisoner, still commands popular interest, scholarly respect, and has virtually become the stuff of legend as retold and enlivened in Danish literature and art.
Leonora Christina in 1632[]
Note: In 1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies, she is simply referred to as "Leonora".
In mid-1635, 14-year-old Leonora traveled to the Caribbean with her sister and Sophie Rantzau.