Titled Danish Gentry and Nobles


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The Danish monarch can confer any title to non-member of the Royal Family?

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Here are the material sections of the Constitution along with explanations written by the government:

Section 83
All legislative privileges attaching to nobility, title, and rank shall be abolished.

Section 83
This Section deals with the advantages some people were born with in bygone days. At the time, there was more class division in society than is the case today. People were born into a particular social class or with a specific title or rank. And this conferred many advantages, what were known as privileges.

It was a great advantage to be an aristocrat. That is, to have the title of count or baron. The aristocracy had privileges that no ordinary citizens had. They paid less tax, for instance. These privileges were abolished by the first Constitutional Act in 1849. But even then, the special rights of the aristocracy were already partly a thing of the past. Very few privileges remained. The constitutional provision abolished special rights once and for all. But it did not abolish the right to ennoble certain people. However, this is of no great significance today.


Section 84
No fiefs, estates tail in land, or estates tail in personal property or family estates shall be created in future.

Section 84
In bygone days, certain families could retain large properties undivided. This could be done, for example, by the eldest son inheriting the property – perhaps an entire estate – without having to share it with his siblings. The Constitutional Act does away with this principle. The King used to be able to reward his people by giving them estates and land. They were called fiefs. Many fiefs were created because they conferred certain financial advantages on the families who controlled them. They could earn large annual incomes from the management of the fiefs and did not have to pay much tax. The many fiefs also meant that extensive areas of Danish estates were bound to specific counties or baronies. They only benefited certain families. In the same way, entailed estates were also linked to particular families. The Danish word for entailed estate, “fideikommis”, comes from Latin and means entrusted estate or money. Estates and property were inherited within the family undivided and could not be sold. It has been illegal to create new estates of this type since 1849. And all of the remaining fiefs and entailed estates were abolished in 1919. The owners received a certain amount of compensation from the State in return for surrendering some of their assets.

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