Pros Mund
Danish admiral
Pros Mund (ca. 1589–13 October 1644) was a Danish-Norwegian admiral during the Thirty Years War. He saw action as a commander in the Torstenson War against Sweden and died at sea in battle. French admiral Abraham Duquesne, at the time serving Sweden after having secured Mazarin’s permission, captured his flagship at the Battle of Fehmarn.
Early life
Pros Mund was born in Eidanger in Norway and was the son of Nils Sørensen Mund of Bjerkevold and Ingeborg Prosdatter Hørby.
He became naval lieutenant in 1624 and was promoted to captain in 1628. That year he was stationed in the southern part of the Baltic Sea, where he counteracted the Imperial designs for a fleet based in Rostock, Warnemünde, Wismar, and Greifswald, also supporting the defense of Stralsund.
In 1630 he was sent first to the Faroe Islands and the coast of Norway to defend trade shipping against piracy and later participated in the fight against Hamburg on the Elbe, where he patrolled with two ships the following year. He then patrolled the North Sea and the Norwegian coast, in 1633 as chief of a fleet squadron. In 1633 he was granted a fief on Iceland, on which he spent several winters and where his wife, Edel Urne, daughter of Johan Urne in Valsø, accompanied him in 1638.
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