Governor-general of Norway - Governors-general Appointed By The Danish Crown

Governors-general Appointed By The Danish Crown

The successive Statholder of Norway during its union with Denmark were:

• 1572 – 1577 Pouel Ottesen Huitfeldt (b. c.1529 – d. 1592)
• 9 July 1577 – 1583 Ludvig Ludvigsson Munk til Norlund (b. c.1532 – d. 1602)
• 1583 – 1588 Ove Juel
• 1588 – 1601 Aksel Gyldenstjerne (b. c.1537 – d. 1603)
• 1601 – 1608 Jørgen Friis til Krastrup (b. c.1543 – d. 1616)
• 1608 – 1618 Enevold Kruse til Hjermislov (b. 1554 – d. 1621)
• 1618 – 1629 Jens Hermansson Juel (b. 1580 – d. 1634)
• 1629 – 1642 Christopher Knudsson Urne til Asmark (b. 1593 – d. 1663)
• 1642 – 24 June 1651 Hannibal Sehested (b. 1609 – d. 1666)
• 1651 – 20 December 1655 Gregers Krabbe (b. 1594 – d. 1655)
• 1656 – 28 March 1661 Nils Trolle til Trollesholm og Gavnø (b. 1599 – d. 1667)
• 8 Oct 1661 – 1664 Iver Tageson Krabbe (b. 1602 – d. 1666)
• Jan 1664 – 1699 Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, greve til Laurvig og Tønsberg (b. 1638 – d. 1704)
• 1669 – 5 June 1675 Ove Juel (Vice Governor-general of Norway under Gyldenløve) (b. 1615 – d. 1686)
• 5 June 1675 – 9 May 1682 Jens Juel (Vice Governor-general of Norway under Gyldenløve) (b. 1631 – d. 1700)
• 9 May 1682 – 26 September 1694 Just Högh til Fultofte (Vice Governor-general of Norway under Gyldenløve)
• 30 September 1699 – 1708 Frederik Gabel (b. c.1640 – d. 1708)
• 10 April 1708 – 22 Feb 1710 Johan Vibe (b. 1634 – d. 1710)
• 1 Aug 1710 – 30 April 1712 Ulrik Frederik Valdemar, baron Løvendal (b. 1660 – d. 1740)
• 4 August 1712 – 14 July 1713 Claus Henrik Vieregg (b. 1655 – d. 1713)
• 19 September 1713 – 1722 Frederik Krag (b. 1655 – d. 1728)
• 17 April 1722 – 5 October 1731 Ditlev Vibe (b. 1670 – d. 1731)
• 1731 – 1733 Patroclus Rømeling (acting) (b. 1662 – d. 1736)
• 1733 – 1739 Christian greve Rantzau (b. 1684 – d. 1771)
• 1739 – 11 Sep 1750 Hans Jakob Arnold (acting)
• 11 September 1750 – 8 February 1771 Jacob von Benzon (b. 1688 – d. 1775)
• 4 July 1766 – January 1768 Carl, Landgraf zu Hessen (b. 1744 – d. 1836)

(acting for Benzon)

• 8 Feb 1771 – 25 July 1809 Vacant
• 25 July 1809 – 11 Jan 1810 Christian August von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1768 – d. 1810)
• 11 Jan 1810 – 11 May 1813 Friedrich Landgraf zu Hessen-Kassel (d. 1845)
• 11 May 1813 – 16 Feb 1814 Christian Frederik af Danmark (s.a.)