Count Oluf of Rosenborg explained

Count Oluf
Full Name:Oluf Christian Carl Axel
House:Glücksburg
Spouse:Annie Helene Dorrit Puggaard-Müller
Lis Wulff-Juergensen
Issue:Ulrik Harald Gunnar Oluf, Count of Rosenborg
Charlotte Helene Annie Dorrit, Countess of Rosenborg
Father:Prince Harald of Denmark
Mother:Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
Birth Date:10 March 1923
Birth Place:Copenhagen, Denmark
Death Place:Copenhagen, Denmark

Oluf, Count of Rosenborg (Oluf Christian Carl Axel; 10 March 1923 – 19 December 1990), a former Danish prince, was the youngest child and son of Prince Harald of Denmark by his wife, Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

Early life

Oluf is a Danish form of Olaf.[1]

He gained the rank of Wing Commander in the Royal Danish Air Force and was appointed a Knight of the Order of the Elephant of Denmark.

Oluf renounced his rights to the throne and took the title Count of Rosenborg on 13 January 1948 when he married Annie Helene Dorrit Puggaard-Müller (Copenhagen, 8 September 1926 - 14 May 2013) in Copenhagen on 4 February 1948,[2] daughter of Gunnar Puggaard-Müller (Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, 9 July 1889 - Bybjerggaard, Hundested, 21 May 1983), Cand.jur., Head of Office in the Ministry of Finance in Bybjerggaard, Kikhavn, Hundested, and wife (m. 12 April 1921) Gerda Annie Nielsen (Copenhagen, 26 July 1899 - ?),[3] paternal granddaughter of Johan Sophus Müller (Flensborggaard, Glumsø S., 4 August 1857 - 13 May 1934, buried in Ordrup Kirkegård in 1934), Cand.theol., parish priest, and wife (m. Copenhagen, 17 June 1885) Alice Helene Puggaard (Sverige, Halland, Falkenberg, Hjuleberg, 13 January 1858 - July 1913, buried in Ordrup Kirkegård on 3 August 1913)[4] and maternal granddaughter of Louis Nielsen (Korsør, 8 March 1865 - 1936), Major-General in the Royal Danish Army in Copenhagen, and wife (m. 1889) Anny Jordan.[5] They had two children and divorced on 20 January 1977. He married secondly Lis Wulff-Juergensen (b. Frederiksborg, 30 June 1935) in 1982, they divorced in 1983, without issue.

Oluf and his first wife had two children:

Ancestry

See also: Descendants of Christian IX of Denmark.

References

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=QPOL0yv3f_8C&dq=Olaf+variant+Olav&pg=PA40 A Handbook of Scandinavian Names
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