Blom (family from Skien)

Blom is a Norwegian family descended from Jan Fredriksen (died 1624), a citizen of Skien.[1][2] His son, parish priest Fredrik Blom (died 1657), Lårdal, adopted the family name Blom. According to playwright Henrik Ibsen, the family was one of the patrician families in Skien.[3] The family is related through marriage to families such as Cappelen, Løvenskiold, Paus and Aall.

The family adopted its coat of arms, featuring a sighthound, in the early 19th century.[4] The coat of arms is loosely based on coats of arms of other families with similar names, not known to be related to this family.

  1. ^ Haagen Krog Steffens: Norske Slægter 1912, Gyldendalske Boghandel, Kristiania 1911, side 45 ff
  2. ^ Norsk Slektskalender I, Oslo 1951
  3. ^ Henrik Ibsen (14 September 1882). Letter to Georg Brandes
  4. ^ Hans Cappelen, Norske slektsvåpen (Norwegian Family Coats of Arms), Oslo 1969 (2. ed 1976), p.65.