Gyldenpalm was a

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and Norwegian noble family. Hans Eilersen Hagerup was born 27 October 1717 in

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and died 19 February 1781 at

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. He was the son of

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(1685–1743) and Anna Catharina Barhow († 1737). His father was

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of the

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. After a long career as an official, he became in 1761 General Commissioner of War in

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. This automatically gave him personal noble status, belonging to the office nobility (Norwegian: ''embetsadel'', ''rangadel''). On the 23rd of February 1781, four days after his death, he was ennobled under the name ''Gyldenpalm'' (lit. ''Golden Palm''). This made also his children and grandchildren noble. His son Eiler Hagerup Gyldenpalm (1740-1817) became the first to use the surname Gyldenpalm. His grandson, Hans Hagerup Gyldenpalm (1774-1827) was a theologian and nobleman. The family became patrilineally extinct with the death of his grandson, diplomat Andreas Dedekam Hagerup Gyldenpalm (1777–1832).

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