Balzer Jacobsen, was Prime Minister

Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands

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 of the Faroe Islands

Faroe Islands

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 from 1655 to 1661.

Balzer Jacobsen was Danish, and was put in place by King Frederik III against the will of the Faroese Lagting. Jacobsen was first and foremost one of Christoffer Gabel's men, who was vogt

Vogt

A Vogt ; plural Vögte; Dutch voogd; Danish foged; ; ultimately from Latin [ad]vocatus) in the Holy Roman Empire was the German title of a reeve or advocate, an overlord exerting guardianship or military protection as well as secular justice...

 of the Faroe Islands. Gabel also had a monopoly on trade to and from the islands during this period. In 1661 Jógvan Poulsen

Jógvan Poulsen

Jógvan Poulsen,Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands twice, from 1654 to 1655, and from 1662 to 1677.Jógvan Poulsen was Faroese, and married the daughter of former Prime Minister Jógvan Justinusson. Poulsen was raised on a farm in Oyri, before he became elected to leader of the Lagting...

 regained control as Prime Minister and Jacobsen withdrew to Denmark

Denmark

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, but the real power in the Faroe Islands still lay with the land owners. This period of Faroese history is known in Faroese

Faroese language

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 as Gablatíðin, and was difficult due to the trade monopoly and wishes from Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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 about the crown's absolute control of the fiefdom

Fiefdom

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