The Danish Nobility Association (or the Association of the Danish Nobility; Danish language, Danish: ''Dansk Adels Forening,'' DAF) is an organization for the Danish nobility, Danish and Aristocracy of Norway, Norwegian nobility. The main purpose of the association is the publication of the Danmarks Adels Aarbog, Yearbook of the Danish Nobility (), a publication that details the genealogies, titles, and Coat of arms, coats of arms of Danish and Norwegian noble families. The Danish Nobility Association acts as an interest group on behalf of the Danish nobility, which has official status in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. The association is a member of the pan-European umbrella-organisation for nobility, CILANE. The current President is Anna von Lowzow.

History

The Danish Nobility Association was created by a merger of ''Dansk Adelsforbund'' (created in 1908) and the Association for the Publication of the Danmarks Adels Aarbog, Yearbook of the Danish Nobility (created in 1901). The merger took effect on 1 January 1983. The Yearbook of the Danish Nobility was founded by archivist Anders Thiset and Genealogy, genealogist in 1884, who around the year 1900, could not afford to continue the publication and who therefore turned to , archivist in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Denmark), Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He saw an opportunity to found an association that could be the voice of the nobility in turbulent times. In a way, it was opportune, for the 1901 in Denmark#Events, change of system in 1901 had put a significant end to the established and reviled landlord system of the previous decades, which the nobility in particular had to suffer. And the nobility in particular feared the consequences of the Constitution of Denmark, June Constitution's promissory clause to abolish the Majorat, majorats, i.e. the ties that had held County, counties, baronies and entailed estates together since the establishment of absolute monarchy by King's Law, law in 1665. Baron Zytphen-Adeler founded the "Association for the Publication of the Danmarks Adels Aarbog, Yearbook of the Danish Nobility" in 1901 with Tage Reedtz-Thott, Tage lensbaron Reedtz-Thott as president. In 1907, Zytphen-Adeler further founded the "Danish Adelsforbund". The publisher of the present book is an amalgamation of these two associations, which in the 21st century have the dual function of protecting the interests of Danish nobility, the nobility and publishing the Yearbook of the Danish Nobility.

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* * {{Cite book , last=Bisgaard , first=Lars , url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/929455733 , title=Adel - Den danske adel efter 1849 , last2=Jensen , first2=Mogens Kragsig , publisher=Gads Forlag , year=2015 , isbn=87-12-05088-1 , trans-title=Nobility - The Danish nobility after 1849 , oclc=929455733

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Danish nobility Norwegian nobility Danish noble families Norwegian noble families Organizations established in 1983 Organizations established in 1908 Organizations based in Copenhagen