Stockfleth (de Stockfleth/von Stockfleth) is a Dano-Norwegian noble family. The family descends from the merchant Eggert Stockfleth (dead 1638 at Bragernes), originally from Haderslev in Denmark, but moved to Norway at the start of the 17th century. According to an old unconfirmed tradition he is supposed to descend from an old noble family, and three branches of the family was naturalised as a part of the Danish nobility in 1779, based on a claim that the family had been noble since the time of Valdemar III. Two other branches of the family had been recognized as noble in the Danish order of precedence since the early 17th century.
Eggert Stockfleth was the father of the prominent brothers Henning, Jacob and Hans Stockfleth.
History
Henning Stockfleth was born in Haderslev in Denmark. He studied in Wittenberg for three years, before he was enrolled at the University of Copenhagen in 1635. He then held several official posts before he was appointed Bishop of Christiania in 1646. He died in 1664.
His younger brother Jacob Stockfleth was born in 1607, and became the Fogd (an old Norwegian title, kind of a combined sheriff and bailiff) of Gudbrandsdalen (from 1634) and then Fogd of Hadeland and Land (1642–46). He lived at the farm Isum in Sør-Fron for several years. He received Viul Manor as a gift from king Christian IV in 1646. At the end of his life he became the Rådmann of Christiania (Alderman of Christiania), before he died in 1652.
The last brother, Hans Stockfleth (died in 1664), served as the Mayor of Christiania for some time.