The family name derives from Quislinus, a Latinised name invented by Quisling's ancestor Lauritz Ibsen Quislin (1634–1703), based on the village of Kvislemark near Slagelse, Denmark, whence he had emigrated. Vidkun Quisling (far left) with his family, c. 1915 The newly-wed couple promptly moved to Fyresdal, where Vidkun and his younger siblings were born. The elder Quisling had lectured in Grimstad in the 1870s one of his pupils was Bang, whom he married on, following a long engagement. He was the son of Church of Norway pastor and genealogist Jon Lauritz Qvisling (1844–1930) and his wife Anna Caroline Bang (1860–1941), the daughter of Jørgen Bang, ship-owner and at the time the richest man in the town of Grimstad in South Norway.
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