Timeline · The estate is broken up

The estate is sold farm by farm

1758

In 1758 the county governor (amtmann) Hans Hagerup holds a public auction of the Giske estate in Sunnmøre. The farms are sold one by one, «saa at Godset blev udspredt i mange Eieres Hænder» (so that the estate was scattered into the hands of many owners), as the older descriptions put it. After the auction there is no longer any Giske estate as a whole.

Hagerup was born in 1717 and became county governor in Nordland in 1751. In 1748 he married Anne Margrethe Høyer, widow of the county governor Christian Sørensen Solgaard in Romsdal and before that of Christen Sæd, who around 1720 had gathered most of the Giske estate. The estate had followed her through three marriages, and it was her third husband who sold it. He lived on his wife's property in Molde from 1748 to 1755.

Who bought is not stated in the printed descriptions. The answer lies in the registers of deeds and mortgages for Sunnmøre from the years after 1758. The historian Peder Fylling mentions a place in Borgund that was probably where the auction was held, but the name is unclear in the digitised text.

From the time the Arnlings appear on Giske around 980 until the estate was sold farm by farm, almost 800 years had passed. Since Gjørvel Fadersdatter, the last of the family to own the Giske estate, deeded it to the king in 1582, 176 years had passed. In 1563 a single estate bailiff (gardsfut), the manager of the estate, kept accounts for 104 farms in Sunnmøre and 50 in Romsdal. After 1758 they had many owners.

Hagerup died in 1781 and was ennobled with the name Gyldenpalm the same year. The main farm on Giske had already been sold separately, to Martinus Hørloch in the 1730s, and went its own way.

Sources

Hans Strøm, Søndmørs beskrivelse (1766), s. 109; Jens Kraft (1831), s. 124; Peder Fylling (1859, s. 82; 1883, s. 46); SNL, Hans Hagerup; Gjørvels regnskap 1563 (Sandberg 1986); rapporten «Giskegodset etter 1582».