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    • Current Lensgrever
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Current Perpetual Lensgrever + Heirs

Reventlow

Lensgreve Christian Friedrich Klaus Hermann de Reventlow

Heir: Greve Nils Christian Hubert Iven de Reventlow

Scheel

Lensgreve Christian Ditlev Scheel
Heir: Greve Sebastian Jørgen Scheel

Schulin

 Lensgreve Kresten Vilhelm Schulin
Heir:  Greve Frederik Vilhelm Schulin 

Blücher de Altona

Lensgreve Conrad Andrew  Blücher af Altona
Heir:  Greve James Gustav  Blücher af Altona

Wedel-Jarlsberg

Lensgreve Carl Nicolaus Wedel Jarlsberg til stamhuset Jarlsberg 

Heir:  Greve Christian Caspar Wedel Jarlsberg til stamhuset Jarlsberg

Bernstorff

Lensgreve Ernst Andreas Peter de Bernstorff 

Heir: -

Ahlefeldt

Lensgreve Oscar Dolores Ahlefeldt 

Heir: -


Where no heir is listed above, this is either because the current lensgreve has no recorded successor in the relevant line, or because no eligible heir could be identified from the information available in Danmarks Adels Aarbog. 

A rarer, special subset of Lensgrever who's title continues to pass on to heirs even after the abolishment of the fiefs.


"Perpetual" Lensgrever

Non-Perpetual, Fief-Tied Lensgrever

Schimmelmann

 Lensgreve Carl-Gustav Schimmelmann til Grevskabet Lindenborg

Reventlow

Lensgreve Christian Ditlev Ludvig Reventlow til Grevskabet Christianssæde 

Wedell

Lensgreve Bendt Tido Hannibal Wedell til Grevskabet Wedellsborg

Knuth

Lensgreve Adam Christoffer Knuth til Grevskabet Knuthenborg

Schaffalitzky de Muckadell

Lensgreve Erik Engelke Schaffalitzky de Muckadell til Grevskabet Muckadell

Bille-Brahe-Selby

Lensgreve Stig Daniel Bille-Brahe-Selby til Grevskabet Brahesminde

 Important note: Because the fiefs on which the fief-tied lensgreve titles depended were abolished in 1919, these titles survive only as transitional dignities for a limited number (2) of successor generations. As a result, around 90% of non-perpetual lensgreve titles have already lapsed, and the heirs of the remaining fief-tied lensgrever will continue only as grever, not lensgrever, once the current generation has passed on. 


Only 13 Lensgrever exist today, with the number expected to fall to or below 7 within the next generation

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