The Count of Wedel-Jarlsberg (also Wedel Jarlsberg) is a title of the Norwegian nobility and of the Danish nobility. The family of Wedel-Jarlsberg is a branch of the larger family von Wedel, which comes from Pomerania, Germany. Family members have had a significant position in the 18th and 19th centuries' Norwegian history.[1]
Feudal Count Johan Caspar Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg played in 1814 an active role in the constitutional assembly at Eidsvoll, and was the first native Norwegian to hold the post of Governor-general of Norway (representing the absent king as head of the Norwegian cabinet) during the union with Sweden.[2]
- ^ Jon Gunnar Arntzen. "Jarlsberg". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
- ^ Odd Arvid Storsveen "Herman Wedel Jarlsberg" Norsk biografisk leksikon