Norwegian Nobility (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Constitution of Norway abolished nobilisation in 1814, and in 1821 the remaining privileges were also abolished. Most native Norwegian noble families disappeared in the male line during the 16th century. Norway still has plenty of people who descend in female line from its indigenous medieval nobility, such as Queen Sonja of Norway herself, and own parts of their manorial and landed properties, now generally in sizes of farms and peasant manors, and a number of male-line families, mainly having Danish and foreign surnames, that descend from the official Dano-Norwegian period nobility. Studies in Copenhagen archives by Jens Chr. Berg found that there were 120 family manors in Norway in the 16th century (a figure later research with much more sources has shown inadequate) - many of them in Bohuslan, which is now a part of Sweden.