page_title: Niels Juel
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Niels Juel / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Margrethe Knudsdatter Ulfeldt, til Totterupholm (Rosendal)m Danish landowner
context_page_description: Niels Juel was a Danish-Norwegian admiral and a Danish naval hero. He served as supreme command of the Royal Danish Navy during the late 17th century and oversaw development of the Danish Navy.
context_section_description: Juel was married to Margrethe Ulfeldt (1641–1703) in 1661. She was the daughter of nobleman Knud Ulfeldt (1609–1657) and Vibeke Podebusk (1608–1645). She was betrothed to him after her father died when she was 20, he was 30 years old. She gave birth to their four children between 1664 and 1672.
  In 1674 Juel was awarded a Danish knighthood. In 1678, he was granted title to Valdemar's Castle (Danish: Valdemars Slot) on the island of Tåsinge. He died in 1697 at 68 years of age. He and his wife were buried in the Niels Juel chapel at the Holmen Church in Copenhagen.
caption: Margrethe Ulfeldt
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