Château Marquis de Terme: Halvor Sollberg
Halvor (as he was known) settled in Bordeaux and on March 26th 1801 he married Henriette Hache (born 1787), the daughter of Jean-Jacques Hache (1745 – 1793), a military captain and royalist whose life had been cut short by the guillotine. A newcomer to the region, Halvor was able to accrue considerable wealth, and he was one of the newly successful bourgeois class of merchants who filled the wealth gap left after the execution or imprisonment of the nobility. He bought the estate of the Marquise de Thermes for the tidy sum of 32,000 francs, and to his holding he also added two neighbouring domaines, Domaine de l’Isle and Domaine Sibille, adding a number of parcels of vines to his new estate in the process. This newly expanded property became the Château Marquis de Terme of today, and it boasted 45 hectares of vineyards.
Henriette Hache was just 13 years of age at the time of the marriage, yet she quickly gave Halvor two daughters Marie Henriette (1802 – 1887) and Madeleine Sophie (1803 – 1897), and then much later a son Alvardus Oscar (born 1811). During this time Halvor busied himself running his estate, the only change of note being the sale of a parcel of land to Gabriel Ferrière (1747 – 1828), of Château Ferrière, in 1811. Perhaps unsurprisingly all was not well at home though, and Henriette filed for divorce in 1814.
