In 1681 the King created her Baroness af Lindenborg. She received this title and fief suo jure on the condition that she made the King"s illegitimate son, Christian Gyldenløve, her heir. In 1688 she took ill with some sort of extremely painful illness.
The Baroness became a legend in the local folklore.
Her parents were Hans Lindenov, a nobleman of Bavarian origins who had been made a Knight of the Order of the Elephant in 1648 and was a member of the Danish Council of State, and Countess Elisabeth Augusta af Schleswig-Holstein, a morganatic daughter of King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway. Now a very wealthy widow, she became famous for her extravagant lifestyle, living—it was said—"blindly according to passion, promiscuity and greed".
