Vincens Budde

Vincens Budde (also known as Vincents Budde or Vincent Budde) was a Norwegian officer, born in 1660 in Halden, Norway into a Norwegian military family (his father, Frederick Otto Budde, served under Tønne Huitfeldt at Fredriksten fortress in Halden, which repelled a Swedish attack in 1660). Budde was promoted to colonel 1710 and to major general in 1716.

Military career Budde was commissioned Løjtnant (Lieutenant) in Løvendals's Regiment in 1683 and was promoted to Kaptajn (Captain) in 1688.

On 17 April 1710 Colonel Budde took command of a battalion of the 2nd (or lower) Tronhjemske Regiment, and in 1711 he led them to Holstein on the Danish–German border. In 1713 he led two battalions of the 2nd Tronhjemske Regiment during the successful investment of Stralsund. By 1715 he had been promoted to brigadier general and commanded forces stationed in Pomerania.

In January 1716, Karl XII of Sweden began an offensive in Norway, with the intention of taking advantage of Denmark-Norway's stationing of 4,500 Norwegian soldiers, including those led by Brigadier General Budde, to Denmark and Northern Germany in 1715. The Swedes expected supremacy over the remaining Norwegian military forces since Swedish forces consisted largely of seasoned mercenaries, while the remaining Norwegian home forces were soldiers with limited military training and poor equipment. However, after a failed Swedish siege of Akershus fortress, three combat experienced Norwegian regular regiments with about 4,000 men, commanded by Brigadier General Budde, arrived from Denmark on 17 April 1716. These forces were dispatched to the southern flank where they secured the fortress city of Fredrikstad and disrupted the supply lines between the Swedish forces in Christiania, and Sweden.

Budde remained in active service until his death in 1729, at almost 70 years of age.

He married rather late in life to Armgaard Margrethe Gabelin, the daughter of Vice Governor-general of Norway Frederik G. Juel and Ane Cathrine Juel on 16 April 1718. She was born in Pleskov in Russia on 10 November 1677 and died in Trondheim on 8 March 1734. No children are recorded for this union.