Carl Adolph Castenschiold (1740 – 30 July 1820) was a Danish landowner and royal official. He owned the

Knabstrup Manor Knabstrup Manor is a manor house located near Holbæk on the Danish island of Zealand. It traces its history to before 1288. History Knabstrup is one of the oldest manor houses in Denmark. It is first mentioned in 1288 when it was confiscated fr ...

and

Hagestedgaard Hagestedgaard is a manor house and estate located at the village of Hagested, near Holbæk, Holbæk Municipality, some 60 kilometres west of Copenhagen, Denmark. The estate traces its history back to the 13th century but the current asymmetrical ...

estates, and was the brother of

Joachim Castenschiold Lieutenant-General Joachim Melchior Holten von Castenschiold (29 November 1743 – 6 April 1817) was a Danish army officer and landowner who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Castenschiold purchased Borreby Castle in 17 ...

Early life

Castenschiold was born on St. Thomas in the

Danish West Indies The Danish West Indies () or Danish Virgin Islands () or Danish Antilles were a Danish colony in the Caribbean, consisting of the islands of Saint Thomas with , Saint John () with , Saint Croix with , and Water Island. The islands of St ...

, the son of plantation owner Johan Lorentz Carstens and Jacobe von Holten. The family moved to

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...

around the time of his birth. They lived in . His father purchased Knabstrup and was ennobled under the name Castenschiold in 1745.

Property and titles

He inherited

in 1760 but sold the estate in 1764. He purchased

in 1769. He was appointed to in 1777 and chamberlain in 1780.

Personal life

He married Dorothea Augusta Brøer (1744 – 14 June 1819) on 5 May 1760 at Hagestedgård. The couple had 10 children but several of them died as infants. He married, for a second time, Dorothea Lyngbye (1761 – 9 July 1838) on 14 June 1820.

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Carl Adolph Castenschiold
{{DEFAULTSORT:Castenschiold, Carl Adolph 1740 births 1820 deaths 18th-century Danish landowners 19th-century Danish landowners Castenschiold family People from the Danish West Indies