Wilhelm Wedel-Jarlsberg
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1852 – 1909
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Who was Wilhelm Wedel-Jarlsberg?
Wilhelm Christian Wedel-Jarlsberg was a Norwegian nobleman and papal chamberlain.
He was the son of Baron Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg and Edle Frederikke Rosenørn Lehn. He became an officer of the Norwegian Army in 1875 and in 1879, he was appointed a chamberlain at the Norwegian court. After converting to Catholicism along with his wife, he had to leave the Lutheran court in Norway, but took a major step up as he was appointed a papal chamberlain by Pope Leo XIII in 1882. He lived with his family at the Palazzo Farnese in Rome.
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