Roos af Hjelmsäter is a Swedish noble family of Norwegian noble and royal origin. It is among the few of

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of ...

's medieval noble families still living.Jon Gunnar Arntzen
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Store norske leksikon RoosafHjälmsäter

Sudreim clan in Norway

The Sudreim clan (''Sudreimsætten'') was originally a part of the

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. Its progenitor, lendmann Åge Varg of

Sørum Sørum was a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Sørumsand. Sørum was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 ( ...

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(ca. 1110-ca. 1150), was married to a daughter of King Harald IV Gille of Norway.Sudreimsætten
in Store norske leksikon. Åge Varg was the paternal grandfather of Olav Mokk († ca. 1224), Sysselmann of Hedmark, who himself was the father of lendmann Ivar Olavsson of Skedjuhov († ca. 1240). The latter's son, Jon Raud Ivarsson of Sudreim (ca. 1245-ca. 1312), was the father of Havtore Jonsson († ca. 1320), who married King Håkon V's daughter Agnes Håkonsdotter. Their sons were Jon Havtoresson (ca. 1312–1395) of

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and Sigurd Havtoresson (ca. 1315-ca. 1390) of Sudreim. Jon Havtoresson married Birgitta Knutsdotter († 1395) and was the father of Håkon Jonsson (1345-1391), who through inheritance and marriage, received extensive landlord in eastern Norway (in Borgarsyssel and

) as well as in western Norway (in

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). Håkon Jonsson was suggested as

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after the death of King Olaf IV in 1387. He became the progenitor of the Roos af Hjelmsäter family of

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. Sigurd Havtoresson married

's richest heiress, Ingeborg Erlingsdotter, daughter of

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. He thereby came to possess the Giske and Bjarkøy Estate. Their daughter was Agnes Sigurdsdotter, who married the Swedish nobleman Jon Marteinsson (Stjerne) († ca. 1400). She was the mother of Sigurd Jonsson (Stjerne) († 1453) of Sudreim, Giske, and Bjarkøy. Sigurd Jonsson was Regent of Norway. As a royal descendant, he was offered the throne but rejected these suggestions. His son junker Hans Sigurdsson (Stjerne) († 1466) was the family's last man in Norway.

Roos af Hjelmsäter in Sweden

Jon Havtoresson and Birgitta Knutsdotter were the parents of at least five children. According to ''Adelsvapens genealogi'' it was not their son Håkon Jonsson but rather his younger brother Brynjulf Jonsson († before 1422) who became the progenitor of the Swedish noble family Roos af Hjelmsäter. The family was in 1625 introduced at the House of Nobility under the name ''Roos af Hjelmsäter'' as noble family no. 51. A branch was in 1705 created barons under the name ''Roos'' as baronial family no. 186. This line became extinct in 1765.

Coat of arms

The family's coat of arms featured a red rose on a golden field.

Prominent members

* Baron

Axel Erik Roos Axel Erik Roos (August 12, 1684 – December 14, 1765) was a baron, lieutenant general in the Swedish army of Charles XII of Sweden, and governor of Dalsland.Carl Gustaf Roos {{Infobox noble, type , name = Carl Gustaf Roos , title = Friherre , image = , caption = , alt = , CoA = , more = no , succession = , reign ...

Sudreim clan in Norway

Roos af Hjelmsäter in Sweden

Coat of arms

Prominent members

See also

References

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