May family

The May family was a prominent Danish family that belonged to the clergy and thus the legally privileged elite in Denmark-Norway. It was descended from the priest Søren Nielsen May, a native of then-Danish Helsingborg in Scania, and Catharina Motzfeldt, the daughter of the noble Copenhagen wine merchant Peter Motzfeldt. Catharina Motzfeldt's sister was the mother of Peder Griffenfeld, the de facto ruler of Denmark-Norway in the early 1670s, and the May family, along with Griffenfeld's other close relatives, thus rose to significant prominence with their nephew's rise to power.

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