Gyldenpalm (noble family)

[1] [2] Hans Eilersen Hagerup was born 27 October 1717 in Kalundborg, Denmark and died 19 February 1781 at Kristiansand, Norway .

He was the son of Eiler Hansen Hagerup (1685–1743) and Anna Catharina Barhow († 1737).

[3] [4] After a long career as an official, he became in 1761 General Commissioner of War in Nordland.

This automatically gave him personal noble status, belonging to the office nobility (Norwegian: embetsadel, rangadel).

[6] The family became patrilineally extinct with the death of his grandson, diplomat Andreas Dedekam Hagerup Gyldenpalm (1777–1832).