Dina Vinhofvers

She married David Schumacher (d. 1650) in Holstein, had a daughter in 1640 and returned to Denmark in the late 1640s with her lover Lieutenant Jørgen Walter (d. 1670).

Leonora Christina Ulfeldt was an illegitimate daughter of King Christian IV of Denmark (1577–1648), and half-sister of Frederick III [3] Jørgen Walter, the probable father of her child, who had become a favorite of the king and became ennobled in 1649, presented her accusations before the monarch.

Ulfeldt informed the king, who had Vinhofvers imprisoned at Copenhagen Castle and made the affair public.

[4] The entire affair is the subject of Maria Edgeworth's story "The Conspiracy," first published in her Tales of Real Life (1810).

Danish author Ebbe Kløvedal Reich (1940-2005) also included portions of her story in his publication Rejsen til Messias (Copenhagen: Gyldendal.