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1301
In 1301 a woman was admitted to Nonneseter convent in Oslo. She brought with her landed property in Hedmarken and the Oslo area. Among the properties was land at Grefsheim.
The event is recorded in the Akershus register of 1622, an inventory of older letters. It reads:
«Indgiffuelßebreff wdi Nunne closter med 10 ørißboell wdi Bø paa Hedemarcken och Greffsen ibidem, Lindren ij Opsloe herridt &c., daterit 1301 [...]»
The letter concerned admission to the convent, with land at Bø in Hedmarken, Grefsheim and Lindern near Oslo. The property formed part of the agreement on her admission.
The spelling Greffsen is the 1622 registrar's. How the name was written in 1301, we do not know.
Who the woman was, we do not know. Nor do we know how large the share of land at Grefsheim was.
The original letter has not been found. But when the documents were registered in 1622, two other letters were still attached. These have not been identified either.
The historian C.C.A. Lange described the admission in 1856. In the printed edition of the Akershus register, “Greffsen” is identified as Grefsheim at Nes.
For now, this is the earliest dated written mention of the farm that we know of.
Source: Akershusregisteret af 1622, utg. Gunnar Tank (1916), Nonneseter klosters breve, nr. 2066-2068, med stedregister. C.C.A. Lange: De norske Klostres Historie i Middelalderen, 2. utgave (1856).