Søfren Pedersen Godtzen^[1]

1599 - 1665  (65 years)

• Name	Søfren Pedersen Godtzen
  Birth	8 Sep 1599	Jyllinge, Roskilde, Denmark
  Gender	Male
  Death	26 Jan 1665	Hana, Rogaland, Norway
  Person ID	I9606	Master
  Last Modified	25 Mar 2020

  
  

  Father	Peder Godtzen,   b. 1573, , Uppsala, Sweden
  Family ID	F2856	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elisabeth Christensdatter Trane,   b. 1613, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway d. 16 Oct 1684, Sandnes, Rogaland, Norway (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	10 Jan 1630	Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
  Children	1. Peder Sørensson Godtzen,   b. 4 Sep 1631, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway d. 4 Apr 1707, Kvinesdal, Vest-Agder, Norway (Age 75 years)   2. Anne Søfrensdatter Godtzen,   b. 10 Nov 1632, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway d. 12 Apr 1685, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway (Age 52 years)   3. Maren Godtzen,   b. 9 Nov 1634, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway d. 18 Jun 1690, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway (Age 55 years)   4. Christen Soerensson Godtzen,   b. 16 Mar 1636, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway d. 12 Apr 1675, Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway (Age 39 years) + 5. Jens Søfrensøn Godtzen,   b. 5 Apr 1637, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway d. 29 Jun 1713, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway (Age 76 years)   6. Karen Søfrensdatter Godtzen,   b. 7 Aug 1638, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway d. 10 Mar 1721, Egersund, Rogaland, Norway (Age 82 years) + 7. Elisabeth Søfrensdatter Godtzen,   b. 26 Aug 1639, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway d. 4 Dec 1714, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway (Age 75 years)   8. Severin Soerensen Godtzen,   b. 12 Mar 1641, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway d. 1 Mar 1690, Klepp, Rogaland, Norway (Age 48 years)   9. Anne Søfensdtr Godzen,   b. 10 Jun 1642, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway d. 26 Dec 1710, Mandal, St John, Virgin Islands, USA (Age 68 years)   10. Hulleborg Soerensdotter Godtzen,   b. 20 Oct 1645, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway d. 16 Mar 1698, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway (Age 52 years)   11. Godske Soerensson Godtzen,   b. 11 Apr 1647, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway d. 3 Jan 1651 (Age 3 years)   12. Agnete Søfrensdatter Godtzen,   b. 7 May 1648   d. 1700 (Age 51 years)   13. Weniche Søfrensdatter Godtzen,   b. 7 May 1648   d. 2 Aug 1648 (Age 0 years)   14. Hartvig Soerensson Godtzen,   b. 10 Aug 1649   d. 1733, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway (Age 83 years)   15. Henrik Søfrensen Godtzen,   b. 31 Jan 1653   d. 27 Nov 1733, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway (Age 80 years)   16. Hans Søfrensen Godtzen,   b. 5 Apr 1654, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway d. 1721, Nedstrand, Rogaland, Norway (Age 66 years)
  Family ID	F2833	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 8 Sep 1599 - Jyllinge, Roskilde, Denmark Marriage - 10 Jan 1630 - Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Death - 26 Jan 1665 - Hana, Rogaland, Norway  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  The Godtzen family: A total of ten brothers Godtzen across Jutland came to Stavanger in the first half of the 1600s. They were given all positions of office, among others. other as councilors in Stavanger. Søfren Pedersen Godtzen operated a trade, and owned ships and eventually bought up a large number of properties both in the city and around the county. He was in his time the richest man in the city and became mayor. The family's position in Stavanger throughout the 17th century was strengthened by marrying a number of his 18 children. He was himself a wiger to another powerful man in Stavanger, Christen Thrane. The Trane family: Christen Trane, smith bailiff over Stavanger County, Christen Christensen Thrane, operated a trade, owned ships and was a customs officer. Rector M. Bemtsen writes about him in his book Place name in Stavanger: “In 1612 & @ he, by Stavanger Domkapitel, he prepped the old trading house with facade facing Torvet, which has gained such wide space in Alex. Kielland's novels, the house where skipper Worse - lived. Later it was & now by Wpmann Johan Prahl. The last owner was the house Jacob Kielland & S0n, who in 1852 sold it to the municipality, which demolished it and the house and the back building of the "Worsesmauet" ril extension of the Square. u Seehusen and Smith: Kieland's text also mentions the Smith family. The connection is as follows: Shen (Severiu) and Elisabeth 7. bm, the daughter Elisabeth, married Morten Hansen Seehusen, from Holstein. Through his marriage, Seehusen was able to build up as a merchant and eventually took a leading position, both in business and through office as a councilor. When he joined Me in1694, it was his widow, Elisabeth Smensdatter, who took over the management of the business. When she died in 17 14, the business was taken over by her attorney and daughter, Laurits Andersen Smith, smn by Anders (Andrew) Smith. As a result, both the Godtzen family's and the Seehusen family's business came over to the Smith family's hands. The Smith family owned b1.a. "Blidensol." Sofra Godtzen Pedersen (born in Denmark in 1599 , died in Stavanger in 1665 ) was the feudal lord in Stavanger from 1622 and Fogd of Jæren and valleys in 1632. Two years later he became city manager, and in 1638 he became mayor of Stavanger. Sofra was in 1630 married to Elisabeth Christensdatter Trane (born in Stavanger in 1613 , died in Stavanger in 1684 . Both Godtzen and Crane families were old priest and futefamilier who came to Norway from Denmark and Germany . Sofra and Elizabeth had at least 18 children. Their daughter Anne Søfrensdatter Godtzen (born 10 June 1642 in Stavanger , died on 26 December 1710 in Søgne ) was married to "the wise priest Bjelland" Søren Schive . In Stavanger Cathedral hangs today a epitaf Godtzen Lord Mayor and his family. Two of the children who died very young, is painted with englevinger.

  
  

• Sources

  [S761] Yates Publishing, Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=167595359&pid=4