Peder Griffenfeld
Fire the "Peder Griffenfeld" event in Europa Universalis IV with the console command event flavor_dan.3299.
Peder Griffenfeld
Fire this event with the event command and the event ID flavor_dan.3299.
What happens
Peder Griffenfeld was perhaps the most brilliant advisor a Danish king has ever had. Peder was born Schumacher to a wealthy Copenhagen family. After study and travel abroad in 1654-62, he returned to enter state service as royal librarian. Soon winning the favor of the absolutist king Frederick III, he became secretary of the king's chamber, in which post he drafted the 1665 Kongeloven ('King's Law'), which was a justification of absolutism. In 1670, the year of the king's death, Schumacher was made Count Griffenfeld. By 1674 he had risen to the post of high chancellor of Denmark under King Christian V.
Player choices
When this event fires, Peder Griffenfeld presents these options:
- An Excellent Minister!