{{Short description|Norwegian naval officer and land owner}} {{Use dmy dates |date=July 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Axel Mowat | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth-date |1592}} | birth_place = Tysnesøya, Norway | death_date = {{Death date and age|1661|1|27|1592|df=y}} | death_place = Bergen, Norway | other_names = | parents = | children = | relatives = | spouse = | occupation = landowner and admiral | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | awards = }}

'''Axel Mowat''' (1592 &ndash; 27 January 1661) was a Norwegian naval officer and land owner.<ref name="snl">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Axel Mowat til Hovland |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Axel_Mowat_til_Hovland |access-date=28 February 2013 |last=Fossen |first=Anders Bjarne |editor-last=Godal |editor-first=Anne Marit |editor-link=Anne Marit Godal |language=Norwegian}}</ref>

Mowat was born in Sunnhordland, probably on the Hovland farm on the island of Tysnesøya which his father had acquired around the year 1590. Mowat was the son of Anders Mowat til Hovland ({{circa|1530}}–1606) and Else Christoffersdatter til Seim ({{circa|1550}}–1622), daughter of Danish-Norwegian Navy officer Kristoffer Throndsen. His father was engaged in trade between Norway and Shetland. Besides Hovland, his father acquired several other farms within the vicinity of Bergen.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hordaland, Tysnes, Hovland |url=https://marcus.uib.no/instance/spatialthing/geo-1223129-hordaland-tysnes-hovland |access-date=July 1, 2017 |publisher=Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Else Tronds |url=http://www.genealogi.no/mediawiki/index.php/Else_Tronds |access-date=July 1, 2017 |publisher=Slektshistoriewiki}}{{Dead link|date=October 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Skottehandelen i Sunnhordland |url=https://lokalhistoriewiki.no/index.php/Skottehandelen_i_Sunnhordland |access-date=July 1, 2017 |publisher=lokalhistoriewiki.no}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Carl Frederik Bricka |title=Christoffer Throndsen |url=https://runeberg.org/dbl/14/0440.html |access-date=July 1, 2017 |publisher=Dansk biografisk Lexikon}}</ref>

Axel Mowat was a naval officer in the Royal Danish-Norwegian Navy and from 1631 he was in command of various naval units in the North Sea. He had acquired property both through inheritance and marriage. After he retired from the admiralty in the 1640s, he started acquiring additional properties, mainly within Sunnhordland. He became the largest landowner in Western Norway at the time.<ref>{{cite web |author=Nina Aldin Thune |title=Lungegården |url=https://snl.no/Lungeg%C3%A5rden |access-date=July 1, 2017 |publisher=Store norske leksikon}}</ref>

Axel Mowat married Karen Bildt (d. 1662), daughter of Knud Danielssøn Bildt til Morland og Lungegården. He was the father of Karen Mowat (d. 1675) and father-in-law of Baron Ludvig Rosenkrantz (1628–85). In time, his properties would form the basis for the estate, Barony Rosendal. <ref name="nbl">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Axel Mowat Til Hovland |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Axel_Mowat_Til_Hovland/utdypning |access-date=28 February 2013 |last=Fossen |first=Anders Bjarne |editor=Helle, Knut |language=Norwegian}}</ref>

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==Related reading== *Jorn Oyrehagen Sunde (2009) ''From a Shetland Lairdship to a Norwegian Barony: The Mouat Family and the Barony of Rosendal'' (Shetland Heritage Publications) {{ISBN|978-0955764233}}

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