Stibolt

The family name Stibolt (alternative spelling Stiboldt) was closely associated with the Danish-Norwegian navy of the 18th century and with the island of Christiansø from the time that Hans Anderson Stibolt was appointed commandant of those most easterly islands of Denmark. His three sons all held naval officer rank, as did many of the subsequent generations, serving with a varied amount of success. Three generations held the post of Commandant on Christiansø. Caspar Henrik Stibolt (1692–1779),2nd-generation Commandant on Christiansø, was admitted to the Danish nobility by naturalization on 24 September 1777, claiming to belong to a German nobility, and his coat-of-arms confirmed.[4][Note 2]. He fathered eight future Danish naval officers, including Andreas Henrik Stibolt and Ernst Wilhelm Stibolt.