Anders Bille

Anders Bille (19 March 1600 – 10 November 1657) was the Danish Rigsmarsk, the officer leading the entire armed forces of Denmark, from 1642.[1]

From 1635 to 1643, Bille was the Governor of Ösel (Saaremaa). In 1644 during the Torstenson War, he briefly led the Danish garrison at Snoghøj when it was being besieged by Lennart Torstensson, but he evacuated before it fell.[2]

Bille was mortally wounded in the defence of Fredriksodde during the Northern Wars against Sweden, and died after a few days in captivity.[1] He was a member of the Bille family.

References

  1. ^ a b Anders Bille, Den Store Danske Encyklopædi, retrieved 16 October 2013
  2. ^ Englund 1993, pp. 311–312.

Works cited

  • Englund, Peter (1993). Ofredsår: om den Svenska Stormaktstiden och en man i dess mitt [Years of unrest: about the Swedish Empire and a man in its midst] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Atlantis. ISBN 9789174863499.
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