Gyldenpalm (noble family)

Gyldenpalm was a Danish and Norwegian noble family.

Hans Eilersen Hagerup (b. on the 27th of October 1717 in Kalundborg, Denmark, † on the 19th of February 1781, Kristiansand, Norway) was the son of Eiler Hagerup (1685–1743) and Anna Catharina Barhow († 1737). Although he was born in Denmark, his family was an old Trondheim family.

After a long career as an official, he became in 1761 General Commissioner of War in Nordland. This automatically gave him personal noble status, belonging to the office nobility (Norwegian: embetsadel, rangadel). On the 23rd of February 1781, four days after his death, he was ennobled under the name Gyldenpalm (lit. Golden Palm). This made also his children and grandchildren noble.

The family became patrilineally extinct with Hans Gyldenpalm's grandson, diplomat Andreas Dedekam Hagerup Gyldenpalm (1777–1832).

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