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Axel Mowat (1592 – 27 January 1661) was a Norwegian naval officer and land owner.

Mowat was born in Sunnhordland, probably on the Hovland farm at Tysnes which his father had acquired ca. 1590. Mowat was the son of Anders Mowat til Hovland (c. 1530–1606) and Else Christoffersdatter til Seim (c. 1550–1622), daughter of Danish-Norwegian Navy officer Kristoffer Throndsen. His father was engaged in trade between Norway and Shetland. Besides Hovland, his father acquired several other farms within the vicinity of Bergen.

Axel Mowat was a naval officer in the Royal Danish-Norwegian Navy and from 1631 he was in command of various naval units in the North Sea. He had acquired property both through inheritance and marriage. After he retired from the admiralty in the 1640s, he started acquiring additional properties, mainly within Sunnhordland. He became the largest landowner in Western Norway at the time.

Axel Mowat married Karen Bildt (d. 1662), daughter of Knud Danielssøn Bildt til Morland og Lungegården. He was the father of Karen Mowat (d. 1675) and father-in-law of Baron Ludvig Rosenkrantz (1628–85). In time, his properties would form the basis for the estate, Barony Rosendal.

References

1. Fossen, Anders Bjarne. "Axel Mowat til Hovland". In Godal, Anne Marit (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
2. "Hordaland, Tysnes, Hovland". Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
3. "Else Tronds". Slektshistoriewiki. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
4. "Skottehandelen i Sunnhordland". lokalhistoriewiki.no. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
5. Carl Frederik Bricka. "Christoffer Throndsen". Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
6. Nina Aldin Thune. "Lungegården". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
7. Fossen, Anders Bjarne. "Axel Mowat Til Hovland". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 28 February 2013.

Related reading

• Jorn Oyrehagen Sunde (2009) From a Shetland Lairdship to a Norwegian Barony: The Mouat Family and the Barony of Rosendal (Shetland Heritage Publications) ISBN 978-0955764233

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