Carl Adolph Castenschiold (1740 – 30 July 1820) was a Danish landowner and royal official. He owned the

Knabstrup Manor Knabstrup Manor is a manor house located near Holbæk on the Danish island of Zealand. It traces its history to before 1288. History Knabstrup is one of the oldest manor houses in Denmark. It is first mentioned in 1288 when it was confiscated fr ...

and

Hagestedgaard Hagestedgaard is a manor house and estate located at the village of Hagested, near Holbæk, Holbæk Municipality, some 60 kilometres west of Copenhagen, Denmark. The estate traces its history back to the 13th century but the current asymmetrical c ...

estates, and was the brother of

Joachim Castenschiold General Joachim Melchior Holten von Castenschiold (29 November 1743 – 6 April 1817) was a Danish Army officer who served during the Napoleonic Wars. Castenschiold purchased Borreby Castle in 1783, the estate of which has been owned by the famil ...

Early life

Castenschiold was born on St. Thomas in the

Danish West Indies The Danish West Indies ( da, Dansk Vestindien) or Danish Antilles or Danish Virgin Islands were a Danish colonization of the Americas, Danish colony in the Caribbean, consisting of the islands of Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Saint Thomas ...

, the son of plantation owner Johan Lorentz Carstens and Jacobe von Holten. The family moved to

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

around the time of his birth. They lived in

Store Kurkestræde Store may refer to: Enterprises * Retail store, a shop where merchandise is sold, usually products and usually on a retail basis, and where wares are often kept ** App store, an online retail store where apps are sold, included in many mobile op ...

. His father purchased

Knabstrup Knabstrup is a small railway town, with a population of 1,015 (1 January 2023),Knabstrup Manor Knabstrup Manor is a manor house located near Holbæk on the Danish island of Zealand. It traces its history to before 1288. History Knabstrup is one of the oldest manor houses in Denmark. It is first mentioned in 1288 when it was confiscated fr ...

in 1760 but sold the estate in 1764. He purchased

in 1769. He was appointed to ''etatsråd'' in 1777 and chamberlain in 1780.

Personal life

He married Dorothea Augusta Brøer (1744 - 14 June 1819) on 5 May 1760 at Hagestedgård. The couple had 10 children but several of them died as infants. He married, for a second time, Dorothea Lyngbye (1761 - 9 July 1838) on 14 June 1820.

References

External links

Carl Adolph Castenschiold
{{DEFAULTSORT:Castenschiold, Carl Adolph 1740 births 1820 deaths 18th-century Danish landowners 19th-century Danish landowners Castenschiold family People from the Danish West Indies