Census • Person • Kristoffer Trondson
aka: Kristoffer Rustung
Pirates • Naval
1500 ca 1535-1550s 1565
a squire, admiral, feudal overlord in Norway and Denmark, privateer captain and pirate. Kristoffer served Archbishop Olav Engelbrektsson, the interregnum leader of Norway, in the last years of the Kalmar Union. Operated in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. Gave up piracy in 1542 and eventually became admiral of the Danish Fleet.
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Kristoffer Trondson 1500 ca 1535
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1560s 9 unknown
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