ERICSEN ORNING, BENGDT [SSNE 5375]
- Surname
- ERICSEN ORNING
- First name
- BENGDT, BERENTT, BERENDT
- Nationality
- SCOTO-NORWEGIAN
Text source
Berendt Orning was the son of Eric Ottesen Orning and Karen Mowatt, daughter of the Shetlander Andrew Mowatt of Hoveland. Karen's father ensured she received her education from a Scottish governess and she could apparently write better Scots than Norwegian. Karen married Eric Ottesen Orning, who later became an admiral in the Danish-Norwegian navy, about 1616. The marriage was considered illegal in Norway as the couple were first cousins once removed. They spent eighteen years in Scotland before they were allowed back to Norway in 1627. Karen's son Berendt Orning wrote to his uncle Axel Mowatt on 29 August 1648 requesting that Axel might act as his mother's guardian while Berendt remained in the king's service which suggests her husband was dead by that point. On 3 February 1650, Anthoni Knipe wrote to Otto Krag complaining that a ship, De Potter, containing a cargo of wood captained by Christoffer Orning had not paid the appropriate tolls. Berentd Orning got involved and claimed it was his right as a free born nobleman not to pay them. When this ploy did not work he claimed the ship was Dutch. Knipe impounded both the ship and the cargo and asked permission of Frederik III to sell them to an unnamed English merchant.Norwegian Rigsarkiv, Danske Kanselli: Norske Kansellinnleg 1121/50, pp.238 and 245; R. Fladby, (ed.), Norske Kongebrev (6 vols., Oslo, 1962), I, p.242; A. Espelland, Skottene i Hordaland og Rogaland, pp.31-32; A.M. Wiesener, 'Axel Movat og Hans Slegt' in Bergens Historiske Forenings Skrifter, no. 36 (Bergen, 1930), p.93.
Service record
- DENMARK-NORWAY, ROYAL SERVICE
- Arrived 1640-01-01
- Capacity ROYAL SERVANT, purpose MISC.