{"id":109656,"date":"2017-12-09T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:54:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:54:04","slug":"stockholm-castle-fire-1697-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/stockholm-castle-fire-1697-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockholm Castle fire, 1697"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_FN98eHvI0Yg\/SCGrJLs23YI\/AAAAAAAAAi4\/049pz7vqNx0\/s1600-h\/TreKronorBrinner_HP_C_XI,B60_249x358.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"139\" height=\"200\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197623619210370434\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/trekronorbrinner_hp_c_xib60_249x358.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-109657\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;\" \/><\/a>In  the afternoon of 7th May 1697, fire broke out in the Tre Kronor (three  crowns) castle in Stockholm, seat of the royal family of Sweden. The  fire spread quickly; according to one eye witness the entire building  was ablaze within half an hour. In spite of this, guards, officials and  servants managed to save much of the contents of the castle, including  the body of King Charles XI, who had died only a month earlier.  Unfortunately, many records and other historical documents were lost, as  were around three quarters of the collection of books in the Royal  Library, and of those books saved from the flames many were damaged by  being thrown out of the windows when the stairwells became impassable.<\/p>\n<p>Within  days a court was convened to discover who was at fault for the fire.  Three men were found guilty of neglect of duty: the fire marshal, Sven  Lindberg; and the two soldiers on fire watch, Mattias Hanson and Anders  Andersson (who was away from his post running an errand for Lindberg&#8217;s  wife). Initially, Lindberg and Hanson received the death sentence, but  the king commuted this sentence to running the gauntlet seven times  followed by six years hard labour. Andersson ran the gauntlet five  times. Lindberg died from the wounds he received from running the  gauntlet, which involved running between two rows of soldiers who rained  blows upon the guilty party.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about this subject see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kb.se\/codex-gigas\/eng\/Long\/handskriftens\/castle-fire\/\">&#8216;The Stockholm Castle fire of 1697&#8217;<\/a> at the web site dedicated <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">History of the Codex Gigas<\/span> (a historical copy of the Bible).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the afternoon of 7th May 1697, fire broke out in the Tre Kronor (three crowns) castle in Stockholm, seat of the royal family of Sweden. The fire spread quickly; according to one eye witness the entire building was ablaze within half an hour. In spite of this, guards, officials and servants managed to save [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}