Angell (family)

Angell (family)

Angell is a Norwegian family.

In the 1650s, the family came as merchants to Trondheim, whereupon they took the name Angell, which is the Danish variant of the landscape name Angeln. In Norwegian, the name is interpreted as fishhook, which is reflected in the family's canting arms. From having been merchants, parts of the family entered as estate owners the proprietarian aristocracy in Central und Northern Norway. The part of the family which remained in Trondheim, gained a prominent position still visible in the city today, especially through , which among others activities runs and is one of the biggest landowners in Trøndelag.

Origin and immigration

The family came from the Nordgård Estate in Steinberg, Angeln. Possible relations to the family von Deden, the previous possessors of this estate, have been mentioned, but remain unproven.

Morten Pedersen and Anne Pedersdatter to Nordgård had the children Peter Mortensen (d. 1684), who took over the Nordgård Estate, Maren Mortensdatter (d. 1664), Morten Mortensen (1624–1688), and Lorentz Mortensen (1626–1697).

Lorentz Mortensen started as a merchant in Flensburg. In the 1650s, he and his siblings Morten Mortensen and Maren Mortensdatter, and their father, came by ship to Trondheim.

Business and land estate

Business

In Norway, Lorentz Mortensen Angell continued as a merchant. Angell was involved also in shipping as well as fisheries and whaling. Hereto, he developed good contact with the main owner of Røros Copperwork, Joachim Irgens (the later Baron von Westervick).

Morten Mortensen Angell was, like his younger brother, a merchant in Trondheim.

Land estate

When the Baron von Westervick died, he owed Lorentz Angell much money. As payment, Angell received big parts of the Irgens Estate. 487 farms in Helgeland, with a size of 525 våg, were transferred to Angell, thereafter being known as . Angell later bought and collected a whole lot of farms in Trøndelag.

From the Baroness of Westervick, Angell received 53 of the 180 owner parts in Røros Copperwork. He had not actively intended to become an owner of the copperwork, but accepted to receive the parts so that the widow should manage to cover her debt to him.

Genealogy

Morten Mortensen Angell's family and descendants

Morten Mortensen Angell married Maren Kristensdatter (b. ca. 1652, Trondheim), who was the daughter of Kristen Rasmussen (b. 1619, Kragelund in Flensburg, d. 1679, Trondheim) and Margrethe Hansdatter Røst (d. 1715).

Lorentz Mortensen Angell's family and descendants

Lorentz Angell was in 1653 married with Margrethe Hansdatter Puls (b. 1631, Hamburg, d. 1670, Trondheim), six children, in 1671 with Alethe Jespersdatter Richard (b. 1651, Bergen, d. 1683, Trondheim), ten children, and in 1684 with Margrete Pedersdatter, with whom he had one daughter.

Coat of arms

Description: Between and on each of the outer sides of two fishhooks: a vertically ordered pair of six-pointed stars.

See also

Literature and sources

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