The Falkenskiold family descended from State Councillor and County Governor Arnold Christian Düssel (ca. 1650–1714) of the influential burgher Düssel (Dyssel) family, he owned Sejlstrupgård Estate. His sons, Martin Düssel (ca. 1690–1746) and Christoffer Düssel (ca. 1698–1770) were both by letters patent on 3 August 1716 ennobled as højere brevadel (New Nobility of the Higher Part) and Sværadlen (Sword Nobility) under the name
von Falkenskiold (‘of Falcons Shield'). The family went extinct with the deaths of its two last male members, brothers Otto Seneca Falkenskiold (died c. 1918) and Marcus Frederik Falkenskiold (died 1928).
Christoffer Düssel von Falkenskiold In his marriage with Else Sophie Bartholin, the younger brother Christoffer Düssel von Falkenskiold got one daughter, Else Margrethe von Falkenskiold (1737–1801), who married Constantin August Charisisius to
Constantinsborg.
Martin Düssel von Falkenskiold Martin Düssel von Falkenskiold married the noblewoman Dorthe Sophia von Schack of Kjærstrup and Bramsløkke (1710–1772) with whom he had three daughters and two sons, including: General Seneca Otto von Falkenskiold (1742–1820), Colonel, Noble courtier and major landowner, and
Arnoldus von Falkenskiold (1744–1819) of Sæbygård and Sophienberg. Arnoldus von Falkenskiold's marriage with noblewoman Elisabeth Sehested of Broholm and Sæbygård (b. 1751) gave the son
Courtier Anders Sehested von Falkenskiold of Sæbygård (1781–1841) who married the noblewoman Cathrine Hedevig de Leth (b. 1782) daughter of Lieutenant General Johan Frederik de Leth (1737–1817). They had seven sons. ==Property==