Danneskiold-Samsøe

Danneskiold-Samsøe
Danneskiold-Samsøe
Danish High Noble Family
	Christian V of Denmark and Norway, the progenitor of the Danneskiold-Samsøe family
Parent family	The House of Oldenburg (House of Glücksburg)
Current region	Denmark
Founded	1695
Current head	Mikkel Archibald Valdemar Christian Lensgreve of Danneskiold-Samsøe (b. 1971)
Titles	Count Danneskiold-Samsøe; Count/Countess of Samsøe; Lensgreve Danneskiold-Samsøe; Comtesse Danneskiold-Samsøe;
Style(s)	Male-line descendants: "His Excellency";
Connected members	The Danish Royal Family; The Norwegian royal family; The Greek royal family; The British royal family

The House of Danneskiold-Samsøe is a Danish family of high nobility who formerly held the island of Samsø as a fief. They represent an illegitimate branch of the House of Oldenburg, which means that they share ancestry with the Danish Royal Family and other European royal families belonging to this same House.

By royal statutory regulation, the Counts Danneskiold-Samsøe and their male-line descendants are ranked as the second-highest nobles in Denmark, second only to the Counts of Rosenborg, who also descend from the Danish Kings. With a place in the 1st Class No. 13, they are entitled to the style "His/Her Excellency".

The family uses a traditional spelling of the name; a modern spelling would be Danneskjold-Samsø.