The Svanenhielm family was a family of Danish and Norwegian nobility.
Morten Hansen Seehuusen (1629-1694) was a merchant from Bredstedt in Schleswig-Holstein who re-located to Stavanger, Norway. His son, Severin Seehusen, (1664-1726) was an official in Bergen as well as in Stavanger and Northern Norway. He owned, among other properties, DamsgÃÂ¥rd Manor (DamsgÃÂ¥rd hovedgÃÂ¥rd) outside Bergen, Svanøy (Svanøy hovudgard) in Sunnfjord and ArnegÃÂ¥rd in Stavanger. Severin Seehausen was in 1720 ennobled under the name Svanenhielm (lit. Swan Helm), which he had adopted after buying the Svanøy Estate in 1719.