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Gjørvel Fadersdatter (Sparre)

c. 1510 to 1605

Gjørvel Fadersdatter (Sparre), c. 1510 to 1605, was the last of the family to own the Giske estate. She was a granddaughter of Knut Alvsson, became undisputed owner from 1538 and lived in Scania, which was then Danish. The accounts from 1563 show 104 farms on Sunnmøre and 50 in Romsdal. On 1 March 1582 she conveyed the estate north of the fjords (nordenfjells) to the king, and the estate the family had gathered over some 600 years became Crown land.

Granddaughter of Knut Alvsson and the last of the family to own the Giske estate. Undisputed owner from 1538. The accounts from 1563 show 104 farms on Sunnmøre and 50 in Romsdal. In 1582 she handed the estate over to the king.

Parents: Bodil Knutsdatter

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Source

Sandberg 1986; Norske Rigs-Registranter bd. 2