Background
Lauritz Galtung was born at the family farm of Torsnes in Hardanger. His father, Lauritz Johannessen Galte, was one of the biggest landowners in Hardanger.
Lauritz Galtung was born at the family farm of Torsnes in Hardanger. His father, Lauritz Johannessen Galte, was one of the biggest landowners in Hardanger.
He was employed Seignory over Lister len in 1658. He is the first in the family to have been called the younger Galtung-family, as he used Galtung rather than the earlier Galte. The tax-census of 1647 shows that he owned 32 farms or farmparts in Hardanger, 13 in Sunnhordaland, and 6 in Voss.
He was first married to Danish noblewoman Clara Gere of Bjørnstrup.
However she died in 1647, only a few months after the marriage. Barbara and Lauritz eventually got six children, the first four born in Bjørnstrup, Scania, and the last two born at Huseby, Farsund after moving to Norway in 1658 (as a result of the Danish loss of Scania by the terms of the Treaty of Roskilde).