Joachim Irgens von Westervick

Joachim Irgens von Westervick (Danish: Joachim Irgens von Westervick; spelled also af Westervig and af Vestervig) (19 May 1611 - 29 August 1675), born as Jochum Jürgens, was a Dano-Norwegian nobleman, a Danish official and an estate owner.

Due to in the 1650s having provided Frederik III wars with considerable amounts of deliveries, Joachim Irgens received as payment, on 12 January 1666, all the crown estate in Helgeland, Salten, Lofoten, Vesterålen, Andenes, Senja, and Troms in Norway.

This sale represented 50 percent of all property in Northern Norway, and the value was calculated to 100,000 riksdaler, equivalent to 2,700 kilogrammes of gold.

On 4 October 1674, Joachim Irgens was ennobled as Baron under the name von Westervick, thus becoming a member of the Danish and the Norwegian nobility.

[6] His noble coat of arms consisted of a four-part shield, the first and fourth field of which shows a golden fish between two gold crowns on a red background.

The third field is divided, three white sea flowers grow up into the blue sky from a pool of water.

His widow managed to buy back some of the land, among other the Tromsø Estate, and remained standing as a proprietarian until her death in 1708.