page_title: Ingeborg Skeel
section_title: Philanthropy
hierarchical_section_title: Ingeborg Skeel / Philanthropy
caption_attribution_description: English: Epitafiet i Voer Kirke
context_page_description: Ingeborg Skeel was a Danish noblewoman, a major land owner and a county sheriff in the Vendsyssel region of northern Jutland, Denmark. She resided at Voergaard, a large estate which she expanded into a fine Renaissance castle between 1588 and 1591. A talented business women, she personally managed her estates and held several lifelong endowments. In her own day, she had an infamous reputation for greed and cruelty but there is no historical evidence for any of the rumours associated with her name.
context_section_description: She restored and partly refurnished the churches which belonged to Voergaard and Asdal. The tower of Voer Church was built by her and her husband according to an inscription in the church. She also financed the limewash frescos in Skæve Church. In 1588 she established a hospital in Sæby, although it had to close following her death due to lack of a signature from her husband on a letter of gift. In her old age she took two orphaned children of noble descent into her care.
caption: Epitaph in Voer Church
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