Manderup Parsberg Manderup Parsberg Manderup Parsberg (December 24, 1546 - November 11, 1625) was a Danish nobleman and politician who was member of the Royal Privy Council to King Christian IV of Denmark. As a student at the University of Rostock he participated in a duel against his third cousin Tycho Brahe in which he cut off most of his nose. The two later became good friends, and he married Tycho's distant cousin Anne Pedersdatter Brahe (1578-1633). Parsberg was lord to Hagesholm. When, in a funeral oration for Brahe, an allusion was made to their unfortunate duel, Parsberg protested and sought redress
Tycho Brahe Brahe, and several gnesio-Lutheran Bishops who suspected Brahe of heresy — a suspicion motivated by his known Philippist sympathies, his pursuits in medicine and alchemy (both of which he practiced without the church's approval) and his prohibiting the local priest on Hven to include the exorcism in the baptismal ritual. Among the accusations raised against Tycho Brahe were his failure to adequately maintain the royal chapel at Roskilde, and his harshness and exploitation of the Hven peasantry. The straw that broke the camel's back for Tycho was when a mob of commoners, possibly incited by his enemies at court, rioted