Hannibal Sehested receives a deed for Sunnmøre fief and Giske manor
NRR 9, s. 185 til 199 · desember 1648 (udatert) ·
What the letter says
In December 1648 King Frederick III conveys to Sir Hannibal Sehested of Nøraggergård, knight, governor-general of Norway and commander of Akershus, and his heirs Sunnmøre fief and Giske manor against exact and full payment. Giske manor pays 15 våger of fish with its deserted holdings and adjoining islands, including the salmon fishery of Festøyvarp. There follows a long list of farms with their land rent in Sunnmøre, Hareidalen and Borgund parish, cottars on Giske estate land, farms in Romsdal with sawmills and mills, and the farms in Voss and Hordaland that belonged to Giske. The edition marks the letter as unfinished and undated in the register.
The letter in modern English
Sir Hannibal Sehested received a deed for Sunnmøre fief and Giske manor. Frederick III. Makes known to all that for exact and full payment we have conveyed, sold, disposed of and ceded, and now with this our open letter convey, sell, dispose of and cede from ourselves and our successors, kings of Denmark and Norway, and the Crown of Norway to Sir Hannibal Sehested of Nøraggergård, knight, our man, councillor, governor in our realm of Norway and commander of our castle of Akershus, and his heirs, the following property belonging to us and the Crown of Norway, namely Sunnmøre fief and Giske manor, which yearly pays 15 våger of fish with its deserted holdings and the islands that rightfully belong to it, with the salmon fishery under it called Festøyvarp. Gjestind [?] pays yearly 3 våger 2 pund of fish, Synes pays yearly 12 våger 1 pund of fish, Rosvik pays yearly 7 våger of fish, with the leasehold rights of all the said farms. (F. = fish, S. = butter, V. = våg, Pd. = pund, M. = mark, Løb. = løp, Sp. = spann. The fractions are uncertain in the OCR text.) Rørvik, F. 4 V. 1 Pd., Molnes, F. 7 V., Rønstad, F. 3 V. 2 Pd., Farstad, F. 2½ Pd. with leasehold rights, Løfstørit [?], F. 4 V. 2 Pd., Seter, F. 1 V., Lurkøen, F. 1 Pd., Hestholm, F. 1 Pd., Hommen, F. 1 V., Hare[...] [...] [Fjør]toft, F. 13 V. 1 Pd., Oksnøy, F. 4 V., Myklebostad, 13 V. 1 Pd., Drønen, F. 4 Pd., Gangstad, F. 3 V
Original text
Hr. Hannibal Sehested fik Skjøde paa Søndmøre Len og Giske Hovedgaard. F. III. G. a. v., at vi for nøiagtig og fuldkommen Betaling have skjødt, solgt, afhændet, afstandet og nu med dette vort aabne Brev skjøde, selge, afhænde og afstaa fra os og vore Efterkommere, Konninger i Danmark og Norge, samt Norges Krone til os elskelige Hr. Hannibal Sehested til Nøraggergaard, Ridder, vor Mand, Raad, Statholder udi vort Rige Norge og Befalingsmand paa vort Slot Akershuus, og hans Arvinger efterskrevne v
Background
With this deed Giske became noble property again, 66 years after Gjørvel gave it to the Crown, but now in the hands of a man unrelated to the Giske family. Hannibal Sehested bought Giske as payment for what the Crown owed him, and the same month the price for Giske, Verne abbey and Nygård was set at 43,378 riksdaler. The list names cottars (strandsittere), landless people who lived on the shore and lived by fishing and labour, and who paid ground rent in fish. Mills and sawmills in Romsdal paid dues in money. Sehested fell from favour in 1651 and had to give back much of his property, and by 1653 at the latest Giske was again Crown land leased out again, see the letters of 1654 to 1656. The extract lacks parts of the list, marked [...].