There is a story in my family that a male ancestor named Eikaas from Jolster was a palace guard. He married a lady in waiting to the queen. I had assumed that ladies who served the queen were daughters of earls or dukes if not princesses. Are there court records that would document 'scandals' of a lady running off with a guard?

more dates and names needed

do you know your Danish ancestors?

>> Eikaas from Jolster <<

Falster sounds more likely if Denmark

artist Ludvig Eikaas (born .1920),
but more norwegian

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Vital Records Index - Norway
1. Joen JOENSEN EIKAAS - Vital Records Index / NO
Gender: M Birth/Christening: 30 Aug 1739 Fjelberg, Hordaland, Norway
2. Mette Sophie MONSDATTER EIKAAS - Vital Records Index / NO
Gender: F Birth/Christening: 22 Sep 1873 Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
3. Inga Sophie Petrine CHRISTENSDATTER EIKAAS - Vital Records Index / NO
Gender: F Birth/Christening: 30 Mar 1862 Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
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http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:QJ64oFHISscJ:www.2manitow...

EIKAAS:
Hans.........................born .1852..to USA .New York......1893 May....1896 Oct 21

of an age to be married

Hugh W

It was not the Danish court. It was the Norweigian court. His name was Ove Louvig born about 1865. My brother met someone when he was younger that had the Norweigian Guardsmen listed. He was with my father (who spoke Norweigian) and actually saw his photo.

My family is Norweigan. There is a story that an Eikaas man was a guard at the palace and married a lady in waiting. He brought her back to the farm in Jolster. She pined and died for her lively life at court. They did have children. Kind of sad.

Norway was ruled by the Danish court

1022 King Canute the Great (of Denmark) conquered also Norway

1379
Marriage ties linked Norway with both Sweden and Denmark, and Queen Margarete, the wife of Haakon VI, succeeded in gaining control of the country as their son the king was only five years old. (He had, by the way, been elected King of Denmark already.)

1536
Norway becomes a subject of the Danish crown, little more than a Danish province. Danish becomes the written language of Norway. Reformation makes Norway Lutheran.

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and then the Swedish court
1814
The peace treaty of Kiel gives Norway to Sweden. Norway declares independence at Eidsvoll, but after a short war against Sweden Norway agrees to a personal union with Sweden. The Norwegian constitution was written.

1905
The union with Sweden falls apart and Norway becomes an independent kingdom. The Danish prince Karl becomes king Haakon VII of Norway.

standard genealogy working back step by step
will find the lady in question
if the records survive


Hugh W

see
http://www.lysator.liu.se/nordic/scn/faq63.html


more

http://www.lysator.liu.se/nordic/scn/faq61.html

Royal family news

http://www.norway.org/

Sorry Mary,but neither I have any answer to the question. First when should this "messaliance" (it is not my word but the word probably for it at the time)? If it was in the 19 th centuary in Norway it must have been when the Bernadotte family ruled aswell in Norway. They are also well known for having "affairs". and "illegitime" children themself, at least some of the kings, begining with the first; Jean Baptist Bernadotte Karl XIV Johan (I do not know what number he had in Norway).
Norway have a very small aristochracy, probably because it was ruled from Copenhagen and Denmark for so many centuries before it had the union with Sweden.
This story about a lady in waiting and a royal guard is probably a often told story. I wouldn´t say it is not the truth. But to have the possibility to find them you must know when it occured and trying the "Eikaas" from "Jolster". Try to go in and search for the two names Eikås seems to be a village in Norway aswell I took a short quote from the internet below:

"Marte Nilsdtr. Eikaas was born in 1726 in Eikås, Jølster. She died in 1783 in Søreide, Fana. She married Daniel Daniels. Gjesdal in 1745 in Jølster"

it is a bit strange spelled but seems like it could be of interests for you. It seems to be much more in English aswell...
so try:
Eikaas
Eikås
Jolster

Sincerely Yours: Steve

Thank you for that information. I was not aware of that. No wonder I was going nuts trying to find this out. I will speak with my brother and ask him why he didn't inform me of this.
Thank you

Thanks.
Hans Eikaas is my great - great grandfather

His eldest daughter Louisa is my great grandmother.

Thanks for your info