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Munthe af Morgenstierne is a Danish and a Norwegian noble family living in
Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...
. It descends from Bredo Munthe of Bekkeskov, who on 19 December 1755 was ennobled under the name ''von Munthe af Morgenstierne''. The family is included in the '' Yearbook of the Danish Nobility''.


Name

The noble name ''von Munthe af Morgenstierne'' was derived from the surnames of two families, Munthe and Morgenstierne, from which Bredo Munthe had descended. When he applied for ennoblement, he claimed that these two families were originally noble.


Origin

Supreme Court Judge Bredo Munthe (1701–1757) was the son of Otto Christophersen Munthe (1659–1733), parish priest at Fron in
Gudbrandsdalen Gudbrandsdalen (; en, Gudbrand Valley) is a valley and traditional district in the Norwegian county of Innlandet (formerly Oppland). The valley is oriented in a north-westerly direction from Lillehammer and the lake of Mjøsa, extending towa ...
and great-grandson of Ludvig Hansen Munthe (1593–1649), Bishop of the Diocese of Bergen.
Patrilineality Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through their father's lineage. It generally involves the inheritan ...
he descended from bailiff Christopher Giertssøn Morgenstierne (1619–79) who married Birgitta Ludvigsdatter Munthe (1634–1708). Their seven children took the surname Munthe.


Coat of arms

The arms, which were granted upon the ennoblement, are partly based on Munthe's old arms. Description: ''On a shield divided into two fields, whereof the upper is silver and the lower is red, in the 1st field two chopped and crossed brown tree stems under a ten-pointed golden star, and in the 2nd field three silver balls. On the helm a noble coronet and up from this two bear paws holding three silver balls. Supporters: two against each other sitting and onto the shield looking brown bears.''


Members

* Bredo von Munthe af Morgenstierne *
Otto Christopher von Munthe af Morgenstierne Otto Christopher von Munthe af Morgenstierne (6 January 1735 – 17 March 1809) was a Danish civil servant, judge and landowner. He was the owner of Bækkeskov at Præstø. Early life and education Munthe was born in Copenhagen, the son of Bred ...
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Christian Fredrik Jacob von Munthe af Morgenstierne Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρισ ...
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Vilhelm Ludvig Herman von Munthe af Morgenstierne Vilhelm Ludvig Herman von Munthe af Morgenstierne (2 October 1814 – 30 December 1888) was a Norwegian politician, part of an old noble family. He was born in Christiania as the son of Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne and his wife Ca ...
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Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne, Sr. Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne (27 September 1774 – 3 June 1835) was a Denmark, Danish-Norway, Norwegian jurist who served as the first Office of the Attorney General of Norway, Attorney General of Norway from 1816 to 1820. He belon ...
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Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne (11 November 1851 – 24 April 1930) was a Norway, Norwegian jurist, Professor of Jurisprudence at The Royal Frederick University from 1887, and the university's rector 1912–1918. Personal life He was bo ...
* Christian von Munthe af Morgenstierne * Otto Christofer von Munthe af Morgenstierne *
Wilhelm Thorleif von Munthe af Morgenstierne Wilhelm may refer to: People and fictional characters * William Charles John Pitcher, costume designer known professionally as "Wilhelm" * Wilhelm (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname Other uses * Mount ...
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Georg Valentin von Munthe af Morgenstierne Georg Valentin von Munthe af Morgenstierne (2 January 1892 – 3 March 1978) was a Norwegian professor of linguistics with the University of Oslo (UiO). He specialized in Indo-Iranian languages. Studies During the years 1923 to 1971, Morgenst ...
* Otto von Munthe af Morgenstierne


See also

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Norwegian nobility Aristocracy of Norway refers to modern and medieval aristocracy in Norway. Additionally, there have been economical, political, and military elites thatrelating to the main lines of Norway's historyare generally accepted as nominal predecessor ...
* Munthe *
Christopher Morgenstierne Munthe Christopher Morgenstierne Munthe 14 July 1875 – 21 December 1939) was a Norwegian civil servant, military officer and genealogist. Biography He was a born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the son of colonel and historian Hartvig Andreas ...


References


Literature and sources

* Hans Krag (1955): ''Norsk heraldisk mønstring fra Fredrik IVss regjeringstid 1699–1730'' * Hans Cappelen (1969): ''Norske slektsvåpen'' * Herman Leopoldus Løvenskiold (1978): ''Heraldisk nøkkel'' * Harald Nissen & Monica Aase (1990): ''Segl i Universitetsbiblioteket i Trondheim''


External links

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