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and council and prominent citizens. During the stay in Malmö from March 9-16, the king stayed at the home of councilman Jorgen Ancher,
in his "residence" number 213, V, in the block number 28 The Crown, at the present Skandinaviska Kreditaktiebolagets property site, developed
in 1918-1919. Corfitz Ulfeldt also obtained accommodation for himself and his family from his arrival in Malmö with councilman's wife Mette Hans Svensen Rogges, in the present-day Hotel Tunnel's property, which would soon become, as mentioned earlier, his own. Charles Gustav and Corfitz Ulfeldt, who was appointed as the king's "secret councilor," were constantly together during these days in Malmö, discussing along with the treasurer Gustav Otto Stenbock and the young chamberlain Johan Gyllenstjerna the future organization of the newly acquired provinces' governance. These gentlemen were appointed by the king to constitute the commission that was given the aforementioned important task, and as a guide for the commission, the king issued an instruction on March 15, the same day Charles Gustav granted Malmö city privileges as a trade, sea and market town in Sweden, and particularly on the salt trade in Skåne, as well as confirmed the city's right to appoint town criers along with certain tax exemptions for wine and oil. At the same time, Gustav Otto Stenbock, the aforementioned former member of the Riksdag, was appointed as the ruler of the Skåne provinces and the first governor general. He was to be the king's representative and have five provincial governors and commanders of fortresses under him. The king also rewar- ded his loyal servants with appointments to the crown-owned estates in Skåne. Thus, Corfitz Ulfeldt was granted Herrevad Abbey and the county of Sölvesborg, and later, Ulfeldt purchased from Jochim Beck, whose son Lave Beck married Ulfeldt's beautiful daughter Leonora Sophia, the large estates of Torup, Gladsax, and Bosjökloster, so that Ulfeldt soon became one of the largest landowners in Skåne. In the following, Corfitz Ulfeldt's role was that of a mediator, and he was more suited for this than anyone else.
Against King Frederick's expectations, Charles Gustav showed a surpri- sing determination in his approach to the new enemy. He left Poland and marched through Mecklenburg towards Denmark. In Pomerania, Ulfeldt joined the king and later followed the Swedish army during its victorio- us campaigns through Jutland and across the Baltic to Zealand. It was also Ulfeldt, along with the Lord High Admiral Karl Gustav Wrangel and Admiral, the Privy Councilor Sten Bielke, who participated at the king's request in the royal council that formed the beginning of the peace in Roskilde. And it was also him, more than any other Nordic statesman, who warningly urged the king to strike soon. Corfitz Ulfeldt and Sten Bielke were also the king's peace commissioners, and as representatives of the victorious power, they carried out the peace in Roskilde on February
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