Category: House of Huitfeldt
Categories: Danish Nobility | Norwegian Nobility
Hvitfeldt and Huitfeldt are the names of several related families in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. In 2015 there were 38 people named Hvitfeldt in Sweden and 56 people named Huitfeldt. Source: https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hvitfeldt
- Huitfeldt is originally an old Danish noble family. It came to Norway around 1581 with Anders Huitfeldt (ca. 1555–1620). In 1582 he married Margrete Pedersdatter Litle, the daughter of Peder Hansen Litle, officer in command at Akershus Fortress, and Ingeborg Nilsdatter Gyllenløve. Anders Huitfeldt became the owner of the seat farm Tronstad (Tronstad Gård) in Hurum in Buskerud, which for 220 years remained in the family's possession.
- In Denmark, the family's certainly documented paternal line goes back to Henrik Nielsen (fl. 1429) in Ventofte on Funen. During the Middle Ages, the family used the name Hogenskild. Among these are the known knight Claus Hogenskild (fl. 1386) and member of the Council of the Kingdom Lord Peder Hogenskild (ca. 1400–1478).
- In 1526, when King Frederik I of Denmark and Norway instructed the Danish nobility to adopt permanent family names, the family took the name Huitfeldt based on their arms. The name consists of the words huit (modern spelling: hvit) and feldt (ditto: felt), meaning respectively white and field. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huitfeldt_(noble_family)
Related Families;
- Hogenskild
- Huitfeldt-Kaas
- Moltke-Huitfeldt
- Resources;
- H.J. Huitfeldt-Kaas (1908): Efterretninger om familien Huitfeldt
- A. Thiset & P.L. Wittrup (1904): Nyt dansk Adelslexikon
- Danmarks Adels Aarbog (1887 & 1949).
- Elgenstierna, Gustaf, Den introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor med tillägg och rättelser
- Huitfeldt, Carl, Slekten Huitfeldt - 600 år i Danmarks og Norges historie ( 600 years in Denmark's and Norway's History), C Huitfeldt Forlag, 2012.
- Huitfeldt, William Roy, A Genealogical and Biographical History of the Huitfeldt Family, published for private circulation, Rochester, New York, 1990.
- Månesköld, Magda, Margareta Huitfeldt, Göteborg,1950.
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