The Tordenskiold family was the name of two dignities in the Danish and the Norwegian nobility. Both are today patrilineally extinct. Tordenskiold I. Peter Jansen Wessel was a Norwegian/Danish naval hero who for his braveness was ennobled under the name Tordenskiold. It happened by letter of nobility on 24 February 1716. Peter Tordenskiold died in a young age and without issue, wherefore this noble dignity became extinct. Peter Tordenskiold's brother Caspar Jansen Wessel was in 1720 ennobled under the name von Wessel. Tordenskiold II.
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The Tordenskiold family was the name of two dignities in the Danish and the Norwegian nobility. Both are today patrilineally extinct. Tordenskiold I. Peter Jansen Wessel was a Norwegian/Danish naval hero who for his braveness was ennobled under the name Tordenskiold. It happened by letter of nobility on 24 February 1716. Peter Tordenskiold died in a young age and without issue, wherefore this noble dignity became extinct. Peter Tordenskiold's brother Caspar Jansen Wessel was in 1720 ennobled under the name von Wessel. Tordenskiold II.
