The House of Rosensverd is a Norwegian

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and

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. Along with the Gyldenløve family of

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, the family are among the few noble and royal families who descend from the medieval royal

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according to genealogists. Their ancestor

Haakon V of Norway Haakon V Magnusson (10 April 1270 – 8 May 1319) ( non, Hákon Magnússon; no, Håkon Magnusson, label=Modern Norwegian) was king of Norway from 1299 until 1319. Biography Haakon was the younger surviving son of Magnus the Lawmender, Kin ...

died in 1319. The international library system has additionally recorded their descend from the vast majority of the other European Royal Houses who reigned until around 1350.

Titles

Norwegian historians and genealogists (Billingstad & Billingstad) have compiled a rather lengthy list which includes both their Norwegian and the non-Norwegian (European) noble and royal titles of various kinds from their European ancestors. However, as the complete list of all their Norwegian and European titles from the various Royal European Houses is rather lengthy the family themselves seems to very rarely, use any of the European titles, other than translations of a few of their ancient Norwegian titles to English. Name Rosensverd, literally meaning "Rose Sword", is the heraldic name based on the family's coat of arms, which in many cases displays roses and one or two swords. In their later Letters Patent from Eric, Emperor of the Union of Calmar amongst other titles also granted them the title " Håndgangne Menn", which in Norwegian means Hirdmenn. Since then, the family has constituted the Royal Norwegian

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. Due to their titles "Håndgangne Menn" (Hirdmenn / The Hird) the family has sometimes been called "Handing mann" and similar spelling variations.

References

Literature

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: ''Slægten Aall'', Kristiania 1908 med Handingman i Nicolas Berghs våpenbok * C. M. Munthe: «Norske slegtsmerker», '' Norsk slektshistorisk tidsskrift'', bd. I,

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