| Notes |
- The earliest instance of any form of the surname that we
found was for a Danish knight in 1326 [7].
, to use the modern Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish
spelling, literally means "rose-wreath, rose-garland", but from an
early date it has meant "rosary". (Modern Swedish preserves both
senses, but in Norwegian and Danish "rosary" appears to be either the
only or at least the primary sense) [8, 9, 10, 11]. The most likely
spelling of this name ca. 1400 is likely , and
is at least a possibility; either would be pronounced
roughly \ROE-sen-krahnts\, with \s\ as in English \see\ and secondary
stress on the last syllable.
It appears that the 14th c. byname recorded for was
not adopted as an inherited surname until 1524, when King Frederick I
of Denmark required the noble families of Denmark to adopt a family
name [12].
In Denmark in the 16th century, we found mentions of
Rosenkrantz> 1559, 1561, and
1562 and 1567, though these spellings are normalized and don't
necessarily represent medieval spellings of the name [13, 14, 15, 16].
The notation represents the character o-slash, the letter
with a slash through the letter.
As Norway increasingly came under Danish control in the early 16th
century, Norwegian charters begin to list the names of several men
bearing forms of the name [17]. These men apparently
were all from one family, serving as officers of the Danish crown, and
the spellings shown below reflect the various spellings in the
manuscripts:
http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi/3074.txt
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1472 - 1551 (78 years)
