Background
Asgaut Olsen Regelstad was born at the farm Nådå on Finnøy in Rogaland, Norway.
Asgaut Olsen Regelstad was born at the farm Nådå on Finnøy in Rogaland, Norway.
He was raised on the neighboring Reilstad farm. He was the eldest of four children born to Ole Asgautsen (1764-1773) and Anna Reiersdatter (1736-1775). He was a farmer on Reilstad in Finney.
He was also sheriff of Finney from 1816-1823.
He represented Stavanger amt (now Rogaland) at the Norwegian Constituent Assembly together with Lars Andreas Oftedahl and Christen Mølbach. At Eidsvoll, he was the only farmer at the Assembly from Stavanger.
He generally supported the independence party (Selvstendighetspartiet) and approved of a proposal to sell church property. Holme Jørn (2014) De kom fra alle kanter - Eidsvollsmennene og deres hus (Oslo: Cappelen Damm).
Additionally he was a member of the school commission, served as lay assistant to the parish priest and served as a magistrate judge.
