Baron Jörgen Iversen Krabbe of Krogholm Castle (now Krageholm) (1633–1678) was a Danish jurist and later a Swedish nobleman, who was one of the most influential men in the province of Scania and played an important role during the Scanian War of 1676–1679.
Jörgen was sent to boarding school at Sorö where he learnt Latin, geometry, fencing, horse-riding and dancing, the way young men of good families were supposed to back then.
King Christian V of Denmark-Norway had offered him a position as county judge but Krabbe chose to renounce his career and return to Scania where he had his fiancée Jytte Tagesen Thott.
Jörgen Krabbe and Jytte Thott got married in Malmö in 1664 and had a lavish wedding feast with guests from both Denmark and Sweden, though the celebrations were exclusively in Danish.
Jörgen Krabbe had high hopes of a career at the bar in Sweden but he found himself having to turn to large-scale farming as his main employment, and in his letters, he complained bitterly of this although he was very fond of Krogholm Castle where he lived with his wife.
He had offered the Danish admirals Juel and Cornelis Tromp dinner when they reconquered the town of Ystad earlier that year and he had also been present when a unit of the Danish free corps "The King's Freeshooters" and local resistance men captured a group Swedes in his brother-in-law Holger Thott's orchard at Marsvinsholm Castle.
The freeshooters/friskytter were units of light cavalry that were mainly recruited on a local Scanian basis and they were often sent out from Landtz Crone (now Landskrona) to troubled or threatened areas, and this was also the case this time.
Apart from the episode in the orchard, Krabbe's present Krogholm bailiff Christopher and his bailiff at Tosterup, Rasmus both rode with the freeshooters and led an attack on a Swedish quarter master by the name of Lorens Basch who had been sent out to collect taxes and war contributions in the area between Krogholm and Bollerup.
[1] The background to this can be seen in the Swedish decision to "deport" the native Scanian nobility and gentry north of the border to Sweden.
On 24 September Krabbe travelled to the Swedish enclave at Malmö together with his cousin Christian Bilde of Dybäck, hoping to manage to convince the governor-general to let them stay in their homes after all, but instead, he was arrested and charged with high treason.
They also accused him for his "arga wäsende"(wrathful personality), cowardice and haughty attitude and they feared that his false insistence on being innocent would reach foreign lands and let people in the world believe his rather than the Swedes' version.