When Maren Sørensdatter Munk was born in 1490, in Havbro, Års, Ålborg, Denmark, her father, Søren Pedersen Munk, was 25 and her mother, Gjertrud Jensdatter Rotfeld, was 20. She married Svend Madsen Orning in 1518, in Elling, Åstrup, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 6 sons. She died after 1 May 1537.
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Treaty of Malmo. Denmark confirms Swedish independence under Gustavus Vasa.
Denmark adopts Lutheranism as the state religion.
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Ezriel, Pinchos, Rivka, Shimon, Shmuel, Zev.
German (also Münk), Scandinavian (mainly Danish), and Dutch: from Middle High German münich, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish munk, Middle Dutch munc ‘monk’, a nickname for someone thought to resemble a monk, or a metonymic occupational name for someone in the service of a monastery. The surname of German origin is also found in France (Alsace). Compare Munck .
German (Münk): from a short form of the medieval personal name Dominicus (see Dominick ).
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