family according to Roskilde History website.

The family developed is based on the the genealogy of the Roskilde Cathedral, Roskilde, Denmark.  This cathedral is one of the oldest in Denmark and is the burial place of the largest number of king, queens and other nobility in all of Europe including Harold Bluetooth, one of the greatest kings of Denmark.   

These families have records and the family crests are found in the Roskilde Cathedral web site and go back to about 1110 however, prior to the Catholic Church few if any records exist.  We know nothing of Peder's father, mother or geographic background. 

Peter Bodilsen (died at the earliest 1142) was one of Zealand's richest men and together with his mother and his brothers, as well as Bishop Eskild, he established Skt. Peders Monastery in Næstved, a Benedictine monastery. Peter had his own chapel: Nothold. Peter was so powerful that Nothold became bishop of Ribe after the battle at Fodevig. Peter Bodilsen stood in 1123 behind the demands of the priests in Zealand that they should live in celibate  life style. He and his allies were quite vehement: Smith smote ministers out of the pastors, forced them to adopt the order. He was a powerful gentleman.

Another rich man of the time, Skjalm Hvide, who might have been richer than Peter Bodilsen (but at least he was richer than Skjalm's sons individually, who shared the wealth after Skjalm died between them). There was evil blood between the Hvides and Peter Bodilsen. In any case, Saxo claims that Peter on Sealand's landing - unsuccessfully - tried to get rid of the Hvides and their property in 1136.  [translated from Danish by Google - Roskilde Cathedral History]

in another record:
Bishop Eskild founded with the aid of Peter Bodilsen,  the Benedictine Abbey in Næstved. This monastery moves to a site under the name of the Forest Monastery outside the city - and becomes the manor Herlufsholm, where there is now a school.
                   [translated from Danish by Google - Roskilde Cathedral History]

Herlufsholm

See more photos here of Roskilde. 

written by the Director of the Naestved Museum, Palle Birk Hansen
In the 1100's Denmark was in civil war. Svend Estridsen's sons and their descendants were asked who would be king in the country. In the 1130s, the battle between King Nils and his son Magnus, on the other hand, was Erik Emune and his supporters.

In 1131 Magnus had murdered his cousin Knud Lavard in Haraldsted at Knud's brother Erik Emune. Erik got a good card by hand, as he played so cleverly that he won the ruling over Denmark in 1134 in a famous battle at Fodevig on the southwest coast of Skåne. Nils and Magnus had arrived with a fleet, and Erik ripped up their army with a rented German cavalry, who ran Nils and Magnus and their foot army down. Among the dead were Magnus and a number of Danish bishops. Nils fled to Schleswig, where Knud had been the earl, and was killed there. In 1170, Knud Lavard became saint and is now known as Sct. Knud.

Erik, the victorious, was of the Zealand-born family of the great-grandfather, whom we call Bodilslægten after Bodil and her sons Peder, Jørgen and Hemming. Probably the Bodil family was of royal family. Bodil may have been one of Erik Ejegod's daughters. The members of the family were, in any event, among the country's most prominent grandmothers, Jørgen thus became an earl, a title and function that was usually devoted to younger king sons such as Knud Lavard. The jarl's role was to control a border area and thus help protect the country as a whole.
Erik Emune who had been the earl over the Smålanden Møn, Falster and Lolland until he became king, and his supposed nephew Jørgen took over his eel function over the Småland.     

Bodils family gave the abbey a large number of properties in Zealand, Møn and Falster and their family church Sct. Peders Church in Næstved, Haarslev Church and Tjæreby Church. In addition, the monastery had the water mill Bodils Mølle in Næstved. Bodil owned large parts of the trading town of Næstved, and the monastery received half of the district of Lille Næstved and part of Store Næstved.
Bishop Eskil in Roskilde followed up donating his tithe income from a number of churches at Næstved and by all churches that would later fall into the new monastery in Roskilde Stift.
Finally, Erik Emune's successor, King Erik Lam, supported the new monastery in 1140 and supplied it with almost all of its revenue from the square and the exchange, as well as the property taxes of all farms in Næstved. The old royal square shopping area Næstved became the main support for the monastery in the next approx. 300 years.
                                            [google translated from Danish - http://www.naestved.dk/Kommunen/MaerkNaestved/]

At Næstveds 800th anniversary in 1935, a pillar of Hjultorvet in Næstved was built a very small rider statue, only 42 cm high, by Peder Bodilsen, performed by architect Urban Hansen-Reistrup (1893-1973). The statue has experienced both being stolen and later recovered.
Peder Pedersen or Borup was a son of Peder Bodilsen of Eggeslev, owner of Little Næstved and Ladby. Peder Bodilsen's mother Bodil was an illegitimate daughter of Erik 1. Ejegod.  [ Peder Bondessen(Bodilsen)  - toveogflemming.dk]

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