Fader | Fødselsdato | Moder | Fødselsdato |
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Forpagter af Svenstrup Len Mads Andersen | Datter af Brædstrup |
Partner | Fødselsdato | Børn |
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Barbara Sivertsdatter (Neergaard) | 1650 | Johan Thomsen Neergaard, til Fuglebjerggård og Grevensvænge |
Begivenhedstype | Dato | Sted | Beskrivelse |
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Fødsel | 1652 | Nedergaard, Grædstrup sogn,Thyrsting Herred, Skanderborg | cirka |
Vielse | 1672 | ||
Død | 1735 | ||
Begravelse | Kimmerslev Kirke, Borup |
Kilder: Eva Teilmann - http://www.geni.com/people/Thomas-Neergaard/6000000000842851025?through=6000000000842854066 Wikipedia - http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neergaard Steen Lyman Hansen - http://www.myheritage.dk/person-5000907_134309901_134309901/thomas-madsen-neergaard http://www.neergaard.org/rhn/FamilyChart-MaternalLine-CGN/Madsen.html |
Den mest kendte, vidt forgrenede slægt føres tilbage til Thomas Madsen Neergaard, der var født på Nedergård, Tyrsting Herred, hvoraf navnet, og forpagter af Svenstrup; han var fader til Johan Thomsen Neergaard (1673-1737) til Fuglebjerggård og Grevensvænge. Han var Forpagter af Svenstrup i Ramsø herred |
Söner: Johan Thomasøn Neergaard Mads Thomasøn Neergaard Sigvart Thomasøn Neergaard _________________________ Slægten Neergaard kommer fra gården Nedergaard i Gredstrup sogn, Tyrsting herred nær godset Mattrup mellem Horsens og Nørre Snede. Han fik 5 børn, heraf 3 sønner: Johan Thomasøn (1673 - 1737), Mads Thomasøn (årstal ukendt) han var forpagter og efterlod sig 2 børn; og Sigvart Thomasøn (1670'erne - 1724) efterladende sig 9 børn og ejer af Mogenstrup Mølle. Slægtens videre forløb er beskrevet i et lille digt, sandsynligvis af Gjessing: En bonde Mads han var, som måtte ploven køre, fra jylland ville Gud til Sjælland hannem føre, hvor han forpagter blev, tilsidst en holden mand, hans Sønnesøns tre Børn er nu i Adelstand. Andreas Teilmanns stamtavle fra 1845 angiver at Thomas Madsen er den første, medens adelsårbogen af 1968 yderligere nævner en Mads Andersen, hans far, som skal være den, der kommer fra Jylland og også bliver forpagter af Svenstrup ______________________ Forpagter af "Svenstrup" i Borup sogn, som han overtog efter faderen. Om Neergaard staar der i Danmarks Adels Aarbog: Navnet Neergaard føres af flere - i hvert fald 3 - danske slægter, hvoraf de to fortrinsvis har været knyttet til landbruget. Den ældste og videst forgrenede af disse slægter har taget sit navnefter gaarden Nedergaard i Gredsted sogn, Tyrsting herred, og føres nu tilbage til en Mads (Andersen), der omkring midten af det 17 aarhundrede var forpagter af Svenstrup, senere hen en af slægtens hovedbesiddelser. Af hans efterslægt blev hans sønnesøns sønnesønner, brødrene Jens Bruun Neergaard og Johan Thomas Neergaard ved resolution af 31 maj 1780 optaget i den danske adelsstand. Hvorledes adlingen er kommet i stand vides ikke. Der tilgik 5 oktober 1780 kancelliet en kabinetsordre om at ekpedere sagen i henhold til den nævnte resolution, og ved kancelliets forelæggelse af sagen hedder det om motiveringen blot "fordi de ere formuende Folk, gode Agerdyrkere, og som kan ære den Stand, hvori de ved denne Deres M ait. Naade kommer". Der tillagdes dem følgende vaaben: Tre gennem en guldkrone stukne natuligt farvede hvedeaks i et blaat felt, paa hjelmen over en af blaa og guld fletter vulst en guldkrone. Skjoldet er behængt paa hver side med en laurbærkrans. Ved skrivelse af 8 maj 1952 har kirkeministeriet fastslaaet, at den ældre linjes danske gren rettelig fører familienavnet Bruun de Neergaard - En stor gren af slægtens øvrige medlemmer fører navnet i formen de Neergaard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Thomas Madsen (born 1652) - First Bearer of the Neergaard Family Name. In the mid 17th century, the Danish king saw a chance to wrest back from the nobility the power to rule the land which, little by little over the centuries, they had whittled away from the throne. His opportunity came when new trade routes opened from the Orient, elevating Copenhagen from a town with a fishing business into a portal into Europe from Russia. This turned the city became into a thriving commercial center, quickly giving rise to a new power center - a wealthy merchant class. These nouveau riches families hungered for social status. The king invited them to court and offered them the titles and estates which they craved - boons which he had the authority but not the practical power to grant..... at least not until he had the money to raise an army of sufficient strength to take control of the country back from the nobles. Would the merchants be interested in giving him the money to make good his offer to them? Of course - Yes! With the backing of these new allies, the king was able to work his will. He declared the old aristocrats’ huge estates forfeit, graciously returning small portions to the original owners, but distributing the remainder among his new bourgeois supporters. One of the aristocratic properties thus reapportioned was the General Estate of Mattrup on Jutland. Mattrup was broken up into four parts, two of which were named after their topography: the Over Gaard, or upper farm, and the Neder Gaard, the lower farm, which stretched for several miles along the banks of the Mattrup River ("neder" means low, as in "nether", and "gaard" means farm or estate). Thomas Madsen, a peasant, but politically active in the area and influential for the cause of the king, was the recipient of this Neder Gaard. According to the custom of the time, if a family had an estate, the estate's title was taken as the personal name of the family members; thus Thomas Madsen became Thomas of Neder Gaard, or finally, Neergaard. Mattrup and the original Neder Gaard is in the Gredstrup (town), Sogh (township), Trysting Herred (county), State of Skandenborg, in Jutland, the portion of Denmark attached to the European mainland. Madsen leased out Neder Gaard and moved to the island of Seeland, where he took up a lease on another large estate, Svenistrup, in Kimmerslø Ramsøe, county, state of Kjobvenhauns (Copenhagen). He ran Svenistrup successfully, and eventually died there at the end of the 17th century (subsequently, one of his grandsons bought the estate, which remains in the family today). Madsen left five children, among whom were the three sons who became the founders of the three branches of the Neergaard family. The line of "de Neergaard" stems from Madsen’s grandson Peter, the fifth child of Madsen's oldest son Johan. Two of Peter's sons were ennobled in 1780, one having been Denmark’s Minister of War, the other a jurist and member of the state cabinet. They and their families are buried alongside Waldemar I, first king of Denmark, in the Neergaard chapel in St Bent's Church (oldest large church in Denmark, from the 11th century) in Ringstedt, first capital of Denmark. This branch of the Neergaard family is still prominent in Denmark today, holding a number of large estates and chateaux on Seeland, southwest of Copenhagen. Madsen/Neergaard himself is presumed to be buried in Kinnerslø Churchyard. There is a verse about him inscribed on an old stone there that translates as: A peasant Thomas was and drove the plow From Jutland to Sjieland made his way Where he was tenant and at last a wealthy man His son’s son’s three children are now noblemen. Pharmacist John William (Johan Vilhelm) Neergaard, born 1810, who emigrated to America ~1840 and founded our branch of the family here, is descended from the line of Madsen’s oldest surviving sons: first Johan; then Johan's oldest son, also Johan; again the oldest son, another Johan; then his oldest son Henrick, who was Johan Vilhelm’s father. John William established a chain of pharmacies in New York City, in Manhattan. He was one of the founders of Columbia University's School of Pharmacy, and was the author of The State of New York's Code of Pharmaceutical Ethics. His chain of pharmacies no longer exists, but another Neergaard, Julius, from Peter's line, emigrated to America 50 years later, and quite independently also established a chain of pharmacies in New York City, this one in Brooklyn. Two of these Brooklyn pharmacies still bear the Neergaard name, though they are no longer owned by the family. Kilde: http://www.neergaard.org/rhn/FamilyChart-MaternalLine-CGN/Madsen.html |