Jacob Roll Knagenhjelm was a Norwegian royal servant. He served as the Lord Chamberlain of Norway from 1925 to 1931.

Personal life

He was born in Trondhjem

Trondheim

Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...

 as the son of Ludvig Wiese Knagenhjelm (1824–1907) and Selma Angelique Lousie Roll.

He was an uncle of Kai Knagenhjelm

Kai Knagenhjelm

-Personal life:He was born in Trondhjem as a son of barrister Arthur Knagenhjelm and Barbara Ihlen . On the maternal side he was a grandson of Jacob Thurmann Ihlen and Belgian citizen Ambrosine Pauline Rouquet....

 and brother of Arthur Knagenhjelm

Arthur Knagenhjelm

-Personal life:He was born in Trondhjem as the son of Ludvig Wiese Knagenhjelm and Selma Angelique Lousie Roll. The Knagenhjelm family had resided in Sogndal in recent times, and had been ennobled in 1721, then under the name Knagenhielm. He was a brother of Lord Chamberlain Jacob Roll Knagenhjelm...

. The Knagenhjelm family had resided in Sogndal

Sogndal

Sogndal is a municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sogn. The village of Sogndalsfjøra is the administrative center of Sogndal municipality. Other main villages include Kaupanger, Kjørnes, and Fjærland...

 in recent times, and had been ennobled in 1721, then under the name Knagenhielm. On the maternal side he was a grandson of mayor Jacob Roll

Jacob Roll (born 1783)

Jacob Roll was a Norwegian judge and politician.He was born in Spydeberg. He was the Chief Justice of Trondhjem Diocesal Court from 1828 to 1855. He was also the first Mayor of Trondhjem. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1833, 1836 and 1842, representing his city...

 and nephew of Oluf Nicolai Roll

Oluf Nicolai Roll

Oluf Nicolai Roll was a Norwegian engineer, architect and politician. He was responsible for the industrial development of the area around the river Akerselva in Christiania, and served as Director General of Statens Havnevesen from 1861 to 1896.-Personal life:Roll was born in Trondhjem, the son...

, Karl Jacob Roll and Ferdinand Nicolai Roll

Ferdinand Nicolai Roll

Ferdinand Nicolai Roll was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Conservative Party.He was born in Trondhjem as the son of judge and politician Jacob Roll and his third wife Nicoline Selmer. He had three siblings. Like his father, he took a law education, enrolling as a student in 1847 and...

. His sister-in-law Barbara Ihlen was a daughter of Jacob Thurmann Ihlen

Jacob Thurmann Ihlen

Jacob Thurmann Ihlen was a Norwegian barrister and politician for the Conservative Party.-Personal life:He was born in Holmestrand as the son of ship-owner Nils Ihlen and Barbara Wincentz Thurmann...

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Career

He finished his secondary education, graduated with the cand.jur. degree and worked abroad for many years. Returning to Norway he was hired in the Ministry of the Interior. He moved to the Ministry of Agriculture in 1900, and also became a chamberlain in the royal court of Oscar II

Oscar II of Sweden

Oscar II , baptised Oscar Fredrik was King of Sweden from 1872 until his death and King of Norway from 1872 until 1905. The third son of King Oscar I of Sweden and Josephine of Leuchtenberg, he was a descendant of Gustav I of Sweden through his mother.-Early life:At his birth in Stockholm, Oscar...

. He was promoted to secretary for the Lord Chamberlain in 1903 and court marshal in 1923, and from 1925 to 1931 he was the Lord Chamberlain for the new King Haakon VII

Haakon VII of Norway

Haakon VII , known as Prince Carl of Denmark until 1905, was the first king of Norway after the 1905 dissolution of the personal union with Sweden. He was a member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg...

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He was decorated as a Commander of the Order of St. Olav. He died in 1932.