Nikolaj Nissen (born 29 May 1627 at Oldemorstoft, died 19 April 1684 in

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), also spelled Nicolai Nissen or Nicolaus Nissen, was a Danish judge and estate owner. He served as war commissioner of

Jylland Jutland ( da, Jylland ; german: Jütland ; ang, Ēota land ), known anciently as the Cimbric or Cimbrian Peninsula ( la, Cimbricus Chersonesus; da, den Kimbriske Halvø, links=no or ; german: Kimbrische Halbinsel, links=no), is a peninsula of ...

, and was appointed a high court judge in 1680, residing in Viborg. He owned the ancestral Vestre Oldemorstoft estate in

Southern Jutland Southern Jutland ( da, Sønderjylland; German: Südjütland) 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 da, Nørr ...

as well as the estates Lerbæk and Rugballegaard. 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 John (Danish, Norwegian and sv, Hans; né ''Johannes'') (2 February 1455 – 20 February 1513) was a Scandinavian monarch under the Kalmar Union. He was king of Denmark (1481–1513), Norway (1483–1513) and as John II ( sv, Johan II) Sw ...

, and King

Christian IV of Denmark Christian IV (12 April 1577 – 28 February 1648) was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Holstein and Schleswig from 1588 until his death in 1648. His reign of 59 years, 330 days is the longest of Danish monarchs and Scandinavian monar ...

was a guest at Oldemorstoft several times in his youth. He was married to Magdalene Boysen (1644–1676), a granddaughter of

Flensburg Flensburg (; Danish, Low Saxon: ''Flensborg''; North Frisian: ''Flansborj''; South Jutlandic: ''Flensborre'') is an independent town (''kreisfreie Stadt'') in the north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Flensburg is the centre of the ...

burgomaster Johannes Boysen and a 2nd great-granddaughter of the prominent Reformation-era jurist and statesman

Christian Beyer Christian Beyer (1482, Kleinlangheim – 21 October 1535, Weimar) was a Saxon Chancellor, international lawyer and Protestant reformer. In documents partially different names and spellings can be found (''Bayer, Peyer, Bayarius, Bayoarius, Bavaru ...

. 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, 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 Sophie Amalie Moth, Countess of Samsøe (28 March 1654 – 17 January 1719) was the officially acknowledged royal mistress of King Christian V of Denmark. Together they had six acknowledged illegitimate children, all of whom bore the surname G ...

. Nikolaj Nissen was the grandfather of, among others, supreme court justice, governor of

Tranquebar Tharangambadi (), formerly Tranquebar ( da, Trankebar, ), is a town in the Mayiladuthurai district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu on the Coromandel Coast. It lies north of Karaikal, near the mouth of a distributary named Uppanar of the Kave ...

and governor of

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

Christian Ulrich von Nissen-Benzon, of major-general Christian Siegfried von Nissen-Benzon, and of governor of

Saint Croix Saint Croix; nl, Sint-Kruis; french: link=no, Sainte-Croix; Danish and no, Sankt Croix, Taino: ''Ay Ay'' ( ) is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorpo ...

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

Nikolai Nissen Paus Nikolai Nissen Paus (4 June 1877, in Christiania – 23 December 1956, in Tønsberg) was a Norwegian surgeon, hospital director and humanitarian. He served as President of the Norwegian Red Cross 1945–1947, and as Vice President 1930–1945 an ...

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