Rosenvinge is a Danish

Danish nobility

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 and Norwegian noble family

Norwegian nobility

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Origin

The family's progenitor, Mogens Jensen († 1528), who was Prince Christian's

Christian II of Denmark

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 secretary, later overlord

Vogt

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 in Bergenhus

Bergenhus

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 and Mayor of Helsingør, was ennobled in 1505. He married Anna Pedersdatter, who was the daughter of Peder Hansen, Mayor of Helsingør, who in 1476 had been ennobled by Christian I of Denmark

Christian I of Denmark

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His patrilineal grandson Mogens Henriksen (1540–1607) was Mayor of Odense

Odense

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. Mogen Henriksen's sons Jørgen Mogensen (1570–1634), Mayor of Odense, and Jens Mogensen, City Manager of Odense, became the progenitors of, respectively, the Norwegian branch and the Danish branch of the family.

General

Jacob Poulsen Rosenvinge (1668–1735), overlord of Vesterålen

Vesterålen

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, is the progenitor of the Norwegian family branch. His father was Poul Jørgensen Rosenvinge (1607–1675), priest in Føns.

Jørgen Mogensen (b. 1570) was the patrilineal great-grandfather of Peder Kaasbøl Rosenvinge (1701–66), priest in Selbu, and Eiler Schøller Rosenvinge (1703–76), priest in Frosta.

Susanne Kaasbøl Rosenvinge (1738–71), the daughter of Eiler Hagerup Rosenvinge (1742–1805), was married to Jesper Andreas Kolderup, and their son, Peter Andreas Rosenvinge Kolderup (1761–1824), was in 1811 ennobled under the name Kolderup-Rosenvinge.

Eiler Schøller Rosenvinge

One of the Norwegian branch's more prominent persons, is Eiler Schøller Rosenvinge (b. 1702, Buksnes, d. 1776, Frosta). Rosenvinge was employed as a vice-pastor by his cousin, Eiler Hagerup the older, who was bishop in Nidaros

Nidaros

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. This was not without controversy, as Hagerup and Rosenvinge were cousins and the bishop was known for favourising his relatives.

Eiler Rosenvinge received as a priest much criticism, and he was by Ludvig Daae described as «a very bad priest» Rosenvinge had a big family, held a splendid household, and participated actively in the social life of the local aristocracy. Parallelly, his priest duties were given lower prioritation. His lacking attention for clerical matters, and his bad treatment of church visitors, were the subject of many letters of complaint. Among the many complaints were 1^st) too high payment for various church ceremonies, 2^nd) his unwillingness to give confession and communion to people with poor Bible knowledge, and 3^rd) the case in which he refused the girl Olava Richter to be confirmed since she did not have some dollars to give to the priest, and furthermore said that if she knew the whole Bible by heart, she was a child of the Devil. After around forty years as a priest, Rosenvinge lost his office due to a sentence in the Highest Court.

Together with his two wives, Eiler Rosenvinge had respectively 11 and 13 children, altogether 24. Thereby, he beated his brother Peder Kaasbøl Rosenvinge, who had 19. When Rosenvinge died, he left values for 18,581 riksdaler, which was an enormous amount in those days.

Literature and sources

• Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål: Eiler Schøller Rosenvinge (Per. 29.05.2011.)