Tordenskiold
Encyclopedia
Tordenskiold was the name of two dignities in the Danish
and the Norwegian nobility
. Both are today patrilineally extinct.
naval hero who for his braveness was ennobled under the name Tordenskiold. It happened by letter of nobility of the 24th of February 1716. Peter Tordenskiold died in a young age and without issue, wherefore this noble dignity became extinct.
Peter Tordenskiold's brother Caspar Jansen Wessel was in 1720 ennobled under the name von Wessel.
Johan Christopher Tordenskiold was the son of Christopher Jansen Wessel and Karen Nielsdatter Bie. He was married and had issue.
Danish nobility
Nobility in Denmark was a leading social class until the 19th or 20th century. Danish nobility exists yet and has a recognized status in Denmark, a monarchy, but its real privileges have been abolished....
and the Norwegian nobility
Norwegian nobility
Norwegian nobility are persons and families who in early times belonged to the supreme social, political, and military class and who later were members of the institutionalised nobility in the Kingdom of Norway. It has its historical roots in the group of chieftains and warriors which evolved...
. Both are today patrilineally extinct.
Tordenskiold I
Peter Jansen Wessel was a NorwegianNorway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
naval hero who for his braveness was ennobled under the name Tordenskiold. It happened by letter of nobility of the 24th of February 1716. Peter Tordenskiold died in a young age and without issue, wherefore this noble dignity became extinct.
Peter Tordenskiold's brother Caspar Jansen Wessel was in 1720 ennobled under the name von Wessel.
Tordenskiold II
Peter Tordenskiold's nephew Johan Christopher Christophersen Wessel (born on the 4th of July 1727, † on the 6th of February 1793) was later, in 1761, ennobled under the same name and with the same arms as his uncle.Johan Christopher Tordenskiold was the son of Christopher Jansen Wessel and Karen Nielsdatter Bie. He was married and had issue.
Literature and sources
- Wikipedia, English: Peter Tordenskjold (Per 12 April 2011.)
- Wikipedia, Danish: Peter Wessel Tordenskiold (Per 12 April 2011.)
- Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål & Riksmål: Peter Wessel (Per 12 April 2011.)
- Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål & Riksmål: Wessel (slekt) (Per 12 April 2011.)
- Store norske leksikon: Peter Wessel Tordenskiold
- Store norske leksikon Peter Wessel Tordenskiold – utdypning