CopenhagenAndItsEnvirons_A

2 to the celebrated Axel Hvide, (Absolon, Bishop of Roeskilde, afterwards Archbishop of Lund), who, in 1168, on the spot which Christiansborg Palace now occupies, erected a castle, for the purpose of keeping the pirates in awe, which after him was called Axel-huus. This Prelate afterwards bestowed the castle and town, with the lands of Amager or Amak, on the See of Roeskilde. Municipal laws were first granted to it by Bishop Erlandsen in 1254; and royal privileges in 1284 by King Eric Glipping. The town having now become more important than any other as a place of royal residence, attempts were made by several kings to recover it from the See of Roeskilde. For nearly two centuries, howeverr these attempts were vain. It was not till the reign of Christopher of Bavaria, who, in the year 1443r selecting Copenhagen as his residence, that anything like an arrangement was entered into; although, whatever the exchange might have been, it was denied by the Bishops, at the election of Christian the First, the successor of Christopher, that any had been made. The first King of the Oldenburg- line , Christian I., seems, however, to have suc­ ceeded in that object, the Bishop and Chapter of Roeskilde having received a remuneration no doubt sufficiently ample. But, even after this, protests were at various times made by the Bishops against the right and title of the Kings to this city, till the-