Bjernede Church ( Danish : Bjernede Kirke ) is a medieval era round church located near Sorø , Denmark . It is one of only seven remaining round churches in Denmark and the only one of its kind on the island of Zealand .
15-465: The present church was built in circa 1170 by Sune Ebbesen, from the influential Hvide clan who belonged to King Valdemar II's social circle. His father, Ebbe Skjalmsen, the uncle of Bishop Absalon , had previously built a wooden church at the site. The tower of Sune Ebbesen's round church contains a room which the Hvide family used as an assemblage hall. The lower part of the church stands in granite while
30-496: A Bishop's Hat -like roof. Storck's restoration came to mark a turning point in Danish restoration architecture which from then on applied a more sensitive approach to the restoration of historical buildings. 55°27′43″N 11°37′30″E / 55.46194°N 11.62500°E / 55.46194; 11.62500 Hvide The Hvide clan (English: Whites ) was a medieval Danish clan , and afterwards in early modern era
45-481: A Danish noble surname of presumably one surviving branch of leaders of that clan. Before the 16th century it was not used as a surname. It signified the color white . The Hvide were influential in the Danish island of Zealand , and occasionally in other close parts of the country, such as other Danish islands and Skåne . They had a stronghold in Jørlunde . A folktale of the clan name contrasts this clan against
60-539: A daughter of the aforementioned Ebbe Sunesen, Lord of Knardrup and Härlöv. The Hvide clan and its relations seem occupied the many powerful positions within the Roman Catholic Church in Denmark for much of the medieval period. Archbishops and bishops considered sons of these clans included: Frederick I , king of Denmark (1523–1533) ordered all nobles to take a surname. At that time, Rødkilde and Katterøe branches of
75-463: Is known to have been one of the brothers who were sons of lady Sidsel, the foremother of the Scanian Galen noble family, herself a descendant and heiress of that Knardrup branch of the Hvide clan. The Litle (de Scania ) was a noble family which appears to have started as cognatic offshoot of the proto-Galen branch of the Hvide clan, and settled to Skåne. Their foremother is mentioned to have been
90-547: Is on one hand counted as one of the proto-Galen, on the other hand traditionally regarded as a Hvide, and thus apparently was a relative of contemporary leaders of the Hvide clan. ( Knardrup Manor ), his seat was in northern Zealand, but he is documented to have possessed lands in Skåne (for example, Härlövs borg). After him, the Galen presumably increased their lands in Skåne and more or less moved to that province. Archbishop Jakob Erlandsen
105-459: The "black" clan of Viking leaders of Skåne (that then belonged to Denmark but now belongs to Sweden) ("Svarte Skåning") who had Thor as their chief god. The white islander clan were "protectees" of non-black god Odin . The Hvide leaders seem to have been among first to convert to Christianity , and later, the clansmen regularly rose to highest positions of Danish church, including several Roman Catholic archbishops of Lund . Several leaders of
120-415: The Hvide clan (according to legendary genealogies, descended from Lord High Constable Stig Andersen Hvide ) yet survived in male line, and they took the surname. These Hvide became extinct in the male line already before the beginning of the 17th century. The 19th Century writer Herman Bang was raised by a paternal grandfather, who at times impressed his grandson with stories of their alleged family ties to
135-434: The clan and of variety of its branches are known since the early 12th century. At that time, a number of Hvide leaders were dubbed as "brothers" and as sons of mythical Skjalm Hvide , earl of Zealand in the latter half of the 11th century; or as his grandsons. Such genealogy is however probably a mythical invention, them generally being more distant kinsmen with each other and "brothers" in the sense of being leaders of parts of
150-554: The historical Hvide clan. Christina Hvide Christina Hvide (in Swedish : Kristina Stigsdotter ) (c. 1145 – c. 1200) was Queen of Sweden as the wife of King Charles VII and the mother of King Sverker II of Sweden . Christina Stigsdatter was the daughter of the Danish nobleman Stig Tokesen (died 1150) of the Hvide family from Scania (then a Danish province) and the Danish Princess Margaret of Denmark who
165-469: The same clan. Stig Tokesen (died 1150) was chieftain of the Hvide ( Hvitaledr ), a magnate and clan leader in the mid-12th century. His first wife, Margrete Knudsdatter af Hedeby , was a sister of the future King Valdemar I of Denmark and daughter of the "martyred" Knud Lavard , granddaughter of King Eric I of Denmark and his wife Boedil Thurgotsdatter (died 1103). The couple's daughter, Kirsten Stigsdatter ( c. 1145 – c. 1200 )
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#1733085076220180-608: The same floor plan as that of the Schlamersdorf Church. Four interior granite columns support the roof structure. The porch was built in about 1500 and the tower had previously been altered but was, between 1890 and 1892, changed by architect Hermann Baagøe Storck (1839–1922) to what he believed was its original design. Storck was later heavily criticized for his restoration work. Architects Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint and Ivar Bentsen later made church projects which resembled Bjernede prior to Storck's intervention, when it had
195-524: The upper part is made of brick, a relatively new material at the time which had only been used in Denmark since the 1140s. The inspiration for the design most likely came from the former St. George's Church ( Sct. Georgs kirke ) of Schlamersdorf in Wagria which Sune Ebbesen had visited several times as a military commander. Bjernede Church, Horne Church on Funen and Thorsager Church in Jutland are all built to
210-625: Was married to King Charles VII of Sweden . Brothers Absalon , archbishop of Lund and Esbern Snare , (1127–1204) castellan of the Kalundborg castle , are mentioned as sons of legendary Asser the rich. Apparently the Galen, whose maternal forefathers were perceived a branch of Hvide clan, settled in Skåne. At least after continuing in cognatic lines, not agnatic . The "proto"-Galen magnates had originally their seat at Knardrup in Zealand. Lord High Constable Ebbe Sunesen of Knardrup (died 1208),
225-625: Was the daughter of Canute Lavard . She was married to King Charles VII of Sweden in 1163 (or 1164) and was in Sweden known as Queen Kristina. In 1163, the Swedish jarl Guttorm greeted her in Scania and travelled with her to Sweden, but it is guessed that the ceremony took place after the inauguration of the new archbishop Stefan (archbishop of Uppsala) in 1164. When her husband was deposed in 1167, she fled to Denmark with her son. The date of her birth and death
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