Ove Ramel


Ove Ramel was a Danish landowner.

Biography

Ramel was the son of pricy counsellor Henrik Ramel and Margrethe Skeel. He attended Sorø Academy in 1653-56 and then went abroad to continue his education enrolling at the university in Orléans in 1659. After Denmark's loss of Skåne to Sweden in 1660, Ramel was naturalized after swearing his loyalty to the Swedish king.
Ramel married Mette Rosenkrantz, a daughter of Erik Rosenkrantz of Rosenholm and Margrethe Skeel. He was the owner of Bäckaskog and Ugerup in Skåne and Lergrav in Jutland. As the guardian of Kjeld Kristoffer Barnekow. he was also responsible for the management of his estates Vittskövle and Rosendal.
During the Scania War, in 1677, he went back into Danish service. His Scanian estates was then confiscated and presented to Field Marshall Conrad Marderfelt. Negotiations for the return of his estates and his appointment to landshøvding of Blekinge and Ramel and four other Danish noblemen were in 1678 executed in effigie on the central marketplace in Malmö.
During the war, Ramel served first as General War Commissioner in ]Kristianstad and from 1678 as amtmann|county governor]9 of Helsingborg. He did not take adventage of the amnesty that followed the Peace of Lund but settled in Denmark where he was granted title of etatsråd.
He was, by marriage, the proprietor of Lergrav. In 1551 he ceded Lergrav to his sister, Anna, the widow of chancellor Peder Reedtz, in exchange for Basnæs on Zealand. In 1682, he also acquired Borreby Castle.
Ramel died on 29 January 1685 at Borreby and was buried at Sorø Abbey Church. Borreby had to be sold as a result of his financial situation. The king granted his widow a pension of 500 daler as compensation for the loss of their Scanian holdings. She sold Basnæs in 1685.