Counts of Wedel-Jarlsberg

[1] Feudal Count Johan Caspar Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg played in 1814 an active role in the constitutional assembly at Eidsvoll, and was the first native Norwegian to hold the post of Governor-general of Norway (representing the absent king as head of the Norwegian cabinet) during the union with Sweden.

Gustav Wilhelm von Wedel (1641–1717) entered the service of Denmark–Norway and became commanding general in Norway in 1681.

Among his descendants were count Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg, a noted politician in the first part of the 19th century.

Several members of the Wedel-Jarlsberg family, and mainly younger sons and daughters of the count, had baronial dignity.

[4] Jarlsberg Manor three kilometres northwest of the centre of the town of Tønsberg in Vestfold, Norway has traditionally been the residence of members of the Wedel-Jarlsberg family.