When Lars Ovesen Jensen was born in 1550, in Øland, Øster Han, Hjørring, Denmark, his father, Jens Madsen Laursen Kusk, was 41 and his mother, Birgitte Jensdatter Mork, was 22. He married Anne Bertelsdatter Kjærulf in 1579, in Biersted, Kær, Ålborg, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died in 1638, in Biersted, Kær, Ålborg, Denmark, at the age of 88.
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Seven Year War begins. Fought between Sweden and Denmark.
The Thirty Years' War. The Danish army is defeated.
Danish and Norwegian: patronymic from the personal name Ove, a Danish form of the older Aghi, derived from a word meaning ‘edge, spear’ or ‘respect, fear’. Compare Oveson and Overson .
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