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17-660: By royal statutory regulation, the Counts Danneskiold-Samsøe and their male-line descendants are ranked as the second-highest nobles in Denmark, second only to the Counts of Rosenborg , who also descend from the Danish Kings . With a place in the 1st Class No. 13, they are entitled to the style " His/Her Excellency ". The family uses a traditional spelling of the name; a modern spelling would be Danneskjold-Samsø . The name

34-519: A legitimated son of Anton Gunther, last independent Count of Oldenburg ). The male Danneskiold-Laurvigen line was extinguished in 1783, and the Laurvig countship was inherited through an heiress by the noble Danish line of Ahlefeldt family . In 1786, François Xavier Joseph Gyldenløve, second Count of Løvendal, great-grandson of Count Ulrik Frederik's first marriage, was granted the surname Danneskiold as well [1] ; but this Danneskiold-Løvendal branch, too,

51-406: Is recorded through their father's lineage. It generally involves the inheritance of property, rights, names, or titles by persons related through male kin. This is sometimes distinguished from cognate kinship, through the mother's lineage, also called the spindle side or the distaff side. A patriline ("father line") is a person's father, and additional ancestors, as traced only through males. In

68-568: The Bible , family and tribal membership appears to be transmitted through the father. For example, a person is considered to be a priest or Levite , if his father is a priest or Levite, and the members of all the Twelve Tribes are called Israelites because their father is Israel ( Jacob ). In the first lines of the New Testament , the descent of Jesus Christ from King David is counted through

85-850: The County of Laurvig in Norway , was director of the West Indies-Guinea Company and built it since the Counts Moltke belonging to the Palace in Bredgade in Copenhagen. With his son Christian Conrad, Count Danneskiold-Laurwigen, the line also died out in 1783. Male-line descendant Patrilineality , also known as the male line , the spear side or agnatic kinship , is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and

102-475: The count's half-brother, granted a comital title to all of his male-line descendants. The next grantees were all the children of Christian Gyldenløve , Count of Samsø, the eldest son of Christian V by his mistress Sophie Amalie Moth in 1696. He married his cousin, Countess Antoinette Augusta von Aldenburg (1660–1701) (eldest daughter of Count Anton I von Aldenburg und Knyphausen and his first wife, Countess Auguste Johanna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein , himself

119-510: The date when Y-chromosomal Adam lived were much more recent, estimated to be tens of thousands of years. Ferdinand Anton Danneskiold-Laurvig Ferdinand Anton Danneskiold-Laurvig (or Laurwigen; 1 July 1688 – 18 September 1754), count of Larvik , Gehejmekonferensråd ( Privy Councillor ) and director of the Danish West India Company from 1723. The son of Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve and Augusta af Aldenburg, Ferdinand Anton

136-540: The family is Mikkel Archibald Valdemar Christian Count Danneskiold-Samsoe, with the style of Excellency . Frederik III 's son with Margrethe Pape , Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve 's sons from his first marriage to Sophie Urne, Carl and Woldemar (1660–1740) became barons of Løvendal in 1662, the latter's son Ulrik Frederik Woldemar was elevated in 1741 by the king of Poland to regent, and his son, Major General and french Marshal François Xavier Joseph Danneskiold-Løvendal (1742–1808),

153-686: The first child born to a monarch inherits the throne, regardless of the child's sex. The fact that human Y-chromosome DNA (Y-DNA) is paternally inherited enables patrilines and agnatic kinships of men to be traced through genetic analysis. Y-chromosomal Adam (Y-MRCA) is the patrilineal most recent common ancestor from whom all Y-DNA in living men is descended. An identification of a very rare and previously unknown Y-chromosome variant in 2012 led researchers to estimate that Y-chromosomal Adam lived 338,000 years ago (237,000 to 581,000 years ago with 95% confidence ), judging from molecular clock and genetic marker studies. Before this discovery, estimates of

170-585: The house with the assistance of the architect Johan Cornelius Krieger . In 1713 he was appointed gehejmeråd and was awarded the Order of the Elephant two weeks later. After his first wife had died in 1712, only a year after their marriage, on 20 December 1713 he married Ulrike Eleonore Reventlow, sister of Anne Sophie Reventlow . Count Danneskiold-Laurvig was neither much in favour with King Frederick IV nor his successor, King Christian VI . On 11 January 1723 he

187-678: The king elevated to be the first Lensgrevinde til Samsø ("Countess of Samsø"). A descendant, Countess Frederikke Louise Danneskiold-Samsøe (1699–1744), married her kinsman Christian August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1696–1754), a partitioned-off duke , and from whose marriage all the future Augustenburgs descend. The present comital family numbers the noble families Ahlefeldt , Frijs-Frijsenborg , Kaas , Trolle , Ulfeldt , Huitfeldt , Sehested , Gyldenstierne , Rosenkrantz , Rantzau , Reventlow , Brahe , Grubbe , Krag til Juellund, and Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs among their ancestress-linked relatives. The present head of

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204-612: The male lineage. Patrilineal or agnatic succession gives priority to or restricts inheritance of a throne or fief to male heirs descended from the original title holder through males only. Traditionally, agnatic succession is applied in determining the names and membership of European dynasties . The prevalent forms of dynastic succession in Europe, Asia and parts of Africa were male-preference primogeniture , agnatic primogeniture , or agnatic seniority until after World War II . The agnatic succession model, also known as Salic law , meant

221-517: The total exclusion of women as hereditary monarchs and restricted succession to thrones and inheritance of fiefs or land to men in parts of medieval and later Europe. This form of strict agnatic inheritance has been officially revoked in all extant European monarchies except the Principality of Liechtenstein . By the 21st century, most ongoing European monarchies had replaced their traditional agnatic succession with absolute primogeniture , meaning that

238-448: Was admitted in 1778 to the Danish court with the name Danneskiold-Løvendal. This line became extinct in 1829 with his son Carl Valdemar Count Danneskiold-Løvendal (1773–1829). Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve's children from his third marriage to Countess Antoinette Augusta von Aldenburg were named Danneskiold in 1693. The son, Ferdinand Anton , founded the count's line Danneskiold-Laurvig. He owned

255-695: Was born on 1 July 1688 at the Gyldenløve Mansion on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen . From an early age he was appointed as Chamberlain . In 1714 he became avener . When his father died in 1704 he inherited several large estates, including the County of Laurvig in Norway and Herzhorn in Schleswig-Holstein . He also received Gyldenløve's Little Mansion on Bredgade in Copenhagen. In the early 1720s he altered

272-458: Was created for several descendants of Danish monarchs of the House of Oldenburg , born of their liaisons with royal mistresses . The first grantees were children from the 1677 marriage between Countess Antoinette von Aldenburg and Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, Count of Laurvig , a celebrated (Norwegian) general and the son of Frederick III of Denmark by his mistress Margrethe Pape . King Christian V ,

289-422: Was extinguished in its male line upon the death of his childless son in 1829. The first marriage of Count Christian produced only daughters, but the issue of his second marriage succeeded to the countship of Samsø and continues in male line, bearing the surname "Danneskiold-Samsøe". All Danneskiolds since 1829 have been descendants of the eldest son of Christian V and his mistress Sofie Amalie Moth (1654–1719), whom

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