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 the near future. Among his predictions was bloodshed in Moscow and the imminent fall of Ivan the Terrible by 1583. The support that Tycho received from the Crown was substantial, amounting to 1% of the annual total revenue at one point in the 1580s. Tycho often held large social gatherings in his castle. Pierre Gassendi wrote that Tycho also had a tame elk (moose) and that his mentor the Landgrave Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel (Hesse-Cassel) asked whether there was an animal faster than a deer. Tycho replied that there was none, but he could send his tame elk. When Wilhelm replied