Norway

Welcome to the Danish Nobility Association

In Norway today there are approx. 900 people, who belong to an old Danish-Norwegian noble family. You can become a member of the Danish Nobility Association, if you belong to a Danish or a Norwegian noble family.

Although the nobility in Norway was abolished in 1821, the families still exist in Norway. The Danish Nobility Association maintains the families’ pedigrees with the help of members of the various families. This ensures that the Danish Nobility Association has as much information as possible about marriages, births, divorces and deaths in each noble family.

The Danish Nobility Association publishes the “Red Book” – the nobility yearbook with registration of all living nobles. The book is currently published every three years and is edited by renowned historians and editors at the University of Southern Denmark. Each edition of the nobility yearbook contains updated pedigrees, and one can thus read about all living nobles. The “Red Book” is also used extensively by genealogists and others with an interest in history.

The Nobility Yearbook, (which in single sale costs DKK 1600,) is sent out free of charge to members of the Danish Nobility Association in Denmark, Norway and the rest of the world. Three times a year, the member magazine “Meddelelser” is published, where there are relevant articles for the nobility. Among others, members of the Norwegian noble families and Norwegian historians write about the nobility in Norway, and we hope that more nobles in Norway will be interested in their own family, and why the family has once been important in Danish-Norwegian society. Notices are sent free of charge to all members of the Danish Nobility Association.

The Danish Nobility Association also has a youth department, where many contacts are made. Not only in Denmark and Norway, but throughout Europe. Many of the young people especially enjoy the network when they study abroad. They immediately get a fantastic opportunity to contact other young people in the country they decide to study in. The Danish Nobility Association has a property in Copenhagen with study opportunities. As a member of the association, you can sign up for a list for an apartment when you are 14 years old. The apartments are offered to the students in the order in which the students are enrolled. Unfortunately, not everyone gets an apartment, as there are many on offer.

Noble Misses also have the opportunity to be enrolled in Vallø diocese, which has just invested in a property in Copenhagen for the benefit of the young enrolled who will study in Copenhagen. Read more about this at www.valloe-stift.dk.

The general meeting of the Danish Nobility Association is held once a year. Nobles from Norway also participate here and we warmly welcome them.

As a member of the Danish Nobility Association, you will receive the Yearbook and Announcements sent free of charge. Furthermore, members of the Danish Nobility Association can always contact the board with questions about the nobility in Norway and Denmark and of course about their own families, and we will try to help as best as possible.

Contact person in Norway is Carl Huitfeldt,

e-mail: carl.huitfeldt@online.no, tlf (+47) 909 45 311.

A membership costs DKK 590 a year

Membership of the Danish Nobility Association

Norwegian stories from the member magazine Meddelelser

Announcements, June 2015 Vestjyden og verdensmanden

Announcements, June 2015 Herman Wedel Jarlsberg

Announcements, June 2015 Blev Norges Adel afskaffet i 1821?

Announcements, June 2015 Lige saa meget dansch som norsch

Announcements, June 2015 Hvor ble det av Huitfeldtene?

Family names of the Norwegian nobility

Anker, Aubert, Benzon, Falsen, Galtung, Holstein von, Huitfeldt, Iuel, von Kløcker, Knagenhielm, Leunbach, Koefoed, Linde de, Lowzow, Løvenskiold, Morgenstierne (Munthe av Morgenstierne von), Munthe-Kaas, Neergaard de, Rosenvinge, Ross, Scheel, Sundt, Treschow, Wedel Jarlsberg, Werenskiold, Vibe (Wibe) de, Wleugel.