The Knights Hospitaller in Viborg (Skt. Hans Kloster) owned the farm and five farm-houses until 1445, when they sold to the Benedictines in Essenb?k, who already had two farms in Gjesing village. After the reformation the kloster came to the Crown ... Gert Rantzau's brother Breide married into the Danish nobility and lived in Denmark, while Gert Rantzau and his descendants kept feeling Holsteiners, although they bought much estate in Jutland. They never became Jutlanders. ...
He married Berengaria of Navarre in Limassol where she was crowned Queen of England. A year later he sold the island for 100000 dinars to the Templars who resold it at the same price to Guy de Lusignan, deposed king of Jerusalem. ... The Republic of Cyprus, however, is a beautiful, progressive country with well-preserved ruins, gorgeous beaches (especially Pafos and Limassol with their five-star hotels), warm and friendly people (English is Cyprus' first foreign language) ...
him--Shall we break in at once, or hold parley? resumed,-- for surely nothing on earth could so much resemble hell, as Berengaria, Queen of England, and the ladies of her Court, who do, under the impulsion of blind bigotry, ...
