TheGrandjean family is a Danish family of French ancestry with several notable members. The manor house Vennerslund on the island of Falster has been owned by members of the family since 1809. [1] The family is also associated with the historic Grandjean House on Bredgade in Copenhagen. [2]
It is believed that the Grandjean originates in the environs of Luon. Augustinus Grandjean (c. 1640–1714) emigrated to Denmark during the reign of Christian V and was in 1685 registered as quartermaster at kvartermester ved oberst Rabe's cavalry regiment.
Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, Count of Monpezat, is the heir apparent to the Danish throne. He is the elder son of Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik.
Løvenørn, also spelled de Løvenørn, was a Danish and Norwegian noble family.
Events from the year 1804 in Denmark.
Events from the year 1852 in Denmark.
Events from the year 1871 in Denmark.
Events from the year 1876 in Denmark.
Events from the year 1786 in Denmark.
Folehavegård is an 18th-century farmhouse in Hørsholm, Denmark. It has been owned by Karen Blixen's father Wilhelm Dinesen, as well as her younger sister Ellen Dahl, and was owned by the family for more than a hundred years. The main building, barn and stable are listed. Much of the land has been sold off. The remaining 35 hectares consist mostly of open farmland but adjoins the woodlands Folehaveskoven and Rungsted Hegn.
The Grandjean House is a Late Neoclassical property consisting of two separate buildings, one at Bredgade 4 and one at Store Strandstræde 3, on opposite side of a central courtyard, in central Copenhagen, Denmark. The property is separated from Kongens Nytorv by a small building that now houses Copenhagen Amber Museum. It was built in 1854 by the architect Christian Tybjerg for pastry chef Christian Bredo Grandjean. It replaced an older building, which was known as the Collin House after Hans Christian Andersen patron Jonas Collin, but this name is now associated with another building in Amaliegade. The Grandjean House was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1959.
Vennerslund is a manor house located 11 km northwest of Nykøbing on the island of Falster in southeastern Denmark. The estate has belonged to the Grandjean family since 1809. The new and old main buildings were both listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places by the Danish Heritage Agency on 13 April 1950. The estate has a total area of 1010 hectares and borders Guldborgsund in the west.
Maase or von der Maase is a Danish noble family which is descended from the German-Danish theologian and landowner Hector Gottfried Masius whose children were ennobled by letters patent in 1712.
The Seidelin family is a Danish family descending from bailiff and councilman in Helsingør Michel Seidel. He was originally from Werder in Pomerania or East Prussia and purchased a house in the city in 1589. Nothing else is known about his background. The name Seidelin was passed on through his daughters who in accordance with German tradition added the suffix -in to their father's name.
Otto Christopher von Munthe af Morgenstierne was a Danish civil servant, judge and landowner. He was the owner of Bækkeskov at Præstø.
The Danish Constituent Assembly is the name given to the 1848 Constitutional assembly at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen that approved the Danish Constitution and formalized the transition from absolute monarchy to constitutional democracy. It consisted of members of which 114 were elected by the people, 38 were appointed by the king and the rest were government ministers.
Høvdingsgård is a manor house and estate located just east of Mern, Vordingborg Municipality, Denmark. The Late Neoclassical, two-storey main building is from 1852 but was widened in 1901. Anders Lassen, the only non-Commonwealth recipient of the British Victoria Cross in the Second World War, was born on the estate in 1920.
Bredeshave is a former manor house located at Tappernøse, Næstved Municipality Denmark. The estate was established as a farm under Bækkeskov in 1786 and granted status of a manor in 1802. Its most notable former owner is Charles August Selby. It is now owned by a foundation and operated as a social institution. All the land has been sold.
Laurence de Boysset was a French-born Danish military officer and landowner.
Frederik Hoppe was a Danish landowner, chamberlain and Member of the Royal Hunt. He owned the Bernstorff Mansion in Copenhagen as well as the estates Løvegård and Søbygård at Kalundborg.
The Sigvert Grubbe House is a Renaissance style townhouse situated at Strandgade 28 in the Chrstianshavn neighborhood of central Copenhagen, Denmark. The property comprises the building at Wildersgade 41 on the other side of the block as well as a half-timbered building separating two central courtyards from each other. The apartment on the first floor features a number of murals attributed to Nicolai Abildgaard. The entire complex was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1918. It takes its name after its first owner, Sigbert Grubbe, a favourite of ChristianIV. It was later owned by Jacob Benjamin Italiaender, a Sphardi Jew, who established a tobacco manufactory as well as a private sunagogue in the yard. The painter Peder Severin Krøyer grew up in the building in the 1860s.
Hans Ditmar Frederik (Fritz) Feddersen was a Danish civil servant and politician. He served as Governor of the Danish West Indies from 1851 to 1855. In 1860, he was elected as Member of Folketinget in Copenhagen's 3rd Constituency.