Nikolaj Nissen (1627–1684)

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Nikolaj Nissen (born 29 May 1627 at Oldemorstoft, died 19 April 1684 in Hamburg), also spelled Nicolai Nissen or Nicolaus Nissen, was a Danish judge and estate owner. He served as war commissioner of Jylland, and was appointed a high court judge in 1680, residing in Viborg. He owned the ancestral Vestre Oldemorstoft estate in Southern Jutland as well as the estates Lerbæk and Rugballegaard.

Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany with a population of over 1.8 million.

Viborg, a city in central Jutland, Denmark, is the capital of both Viborg municipality and Region Midtjylland. Viborg is also the seat of the Western High Court, the High Court for the Jutland peninsula. Viborg Municipality is the second-largest Danish municipality, covering 3.3% of that country's total land area.

Southern Jutland region south of the Kongeå in Jutland, Denmark

Southern Jutland is the name for the region south of the Kongeå in Jutland, Denmark and north of the Eider (river) in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The region north of the Kongeå is called Nørrejylland. Both territories had their own ting assemblies in the Middle Ages. Southern Jutland is mentioned for the first time in the Knýtlinga saga.

He was a member of the Nissen family of estate owners from Southern Jutland. His paternal 3rd great-grandfather Henrik (Henrich, Hinrich) Lorentzen (Schack) had received the Oldemorstoft estate as a fief from John, King of Denmark, and King Christian IV of Denmark was a guest at Oldemorstoft several times in his youth.

Nissen (noble family) Danish noble family

Nissen, von Nissen and von Nissen-Benzon is a Danish family of land owners from Southern Jutland, which was partially ennobled in 1710. It is descended from Henrik Lorentzen (Schack), who in 1484 was granted the estate of Oldemorstoft as a fief by John, King of Denmark. Members of the family were land owners and from the 17th century war commissioners, judges, councillors of state (etatsråd), Governors (stiftamtmann), Supreme Court Justice and General in Denmark. Family members served as Governor of Tranquebar, plantation owner and Vice Governor of the Danish West Indies in the 18th century. In Denmark, the family owned the estates of Oldemorstoft, Lerbæk, Rugballegaard, Brantbjerg, the Stamhus of Skærsø and others between the 15th century and the 18th century. In the 17th century, King Christian IV of Denmark was a guest at Oldemorstoft several times. The name von Nissen was used by the noble branch and military officers of the family.

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Christian IV, sometimes colloquially referred to as Christian Den Fjerde in Denmark and Christian Kvart or Quart in Norway, was king of Denmark–Norway and Duke of Holstein and Schleswig from 1588 to 1648. His 59-year reign is the longest of Danish monarchs, and of Scandinavian monarchies.

He was married to Magdalene Boysen (1644–1676), a granddaughter of Flensburg burgomaster Johannes Boysen and a 2nd great-granddaughter of the prominent Reformation-era jurist and statesman Christian Beyer. They were the parents of war commissioner, councillor of state and estate owner Herman Lorentz von Nissen (1663–1717), who was ennobled by letters patent in 1710,^[1] of war commissioner and estate owner Nicolai Nissen (1664–1717), and of Magdalene Catharina Nissen (born 1665), who married Jacob von Holten. Herman Lorentz von Nissen was married to Ida Sophie Amalie Glud (1672–1703), daughter of Viborg bishop Søren Glud (ennobled 1679) and Ida Christine Moth, a sister of the King's mistress Sophie Amalie Moth. Nikolaj Nissen was the grandfather of, among others, supreme court justice, governor of Tranquebar and governor of Copenhagen Christian Ulrich von Nissen-Benzon, of major-general Christian Siegfried von Nissen-Benzon, and of governor of Saint Croix Gregers Høeg Nissen.^[2]^[3]

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Christian Beyer was a Saxon Chancellor, international lawyer and Protestant reformer. In documents partially different names and spellings can be found.

Sophie Amalie Moth, Countess of Samsøe was the officially acknowledged royal mistress of King Christian V of Denmark. Together they had five acknowledged illegitimate children, all of whom bore the surname Gyldenløve. In 1677 she was elevated to be the first Countess of Samsø. The still-existing Danish noble family of Danneskiold-Samsøe is descended from her.

Numerous of his descendants have been named for him, for example the Norwegian humanitarian Nikolai Nissen Paus.

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References

↑ (von) Nissen and (von) Nissen-Benzon, Danmarks Adels Aarbog , 1927 II, 73; 1929, 312; 1944, 112; 1953, 44
↑ "Nicolaus Nissen til Lerbæk og Rugballegaard," in Harald Nissen og Gunnar Brun Nissen, Slekten Nissen fra Bov sogn i Sønderjylland, Trondheim, 1978, pp. 13–23.
↑ Karl Alnor: "Die Lebensbeschreibung des Kriegskommissars Nikolaus Nissen von Waldemarstoft 1627–1684. Ein Beitrag zur schleswigschen Familiengeschichte", in Deutscher Volkskalender Nordschleswig 1932 pp. 87–98.

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[1] (von) Nissen and (von) Nissen-Benzon, Danmarks Adels Aarbog , 1927 II, 73; 1929, 312; 1944, 112; 1953, 44

[2] "Nicolaus Nissen til Lerbæk og Rugballegaard," in Harald Nissen og Gunnar Brun Nissen, Slekten Nissen fra Bov sogn i Sønderjylland, Trondheim, 1978, pp. 13–23.

[3] Karl Alnor: "Die Lebensbeschreibung des Kriegskommissars Nikolaus Nissen von Waldemarstoft 1627–1684. Ein Beitrag zur schleswigschen Familiengeschichte", in Deutscher Volkskalender Nordschleswig 1932 pp. 87–98.