Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne Sr.

Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne (27 September 1774 – 3 June 1835) was a Danish-Norwegian jurist who served as the first Attorney General of Norway from 1816 to 1820.

He was born in Denmark as the son of Otto Christopher von Munthe af Morgenstierne and his wife Christine Bodilla Birgitte de Flindt; his grandfather, supreme court justice Bredo von Munthe af Morgenstierne, had been ennobled in Denmark-Norway.

[1] His son Vilhelm Ludvig Herman became a County Governor, and Christian Fredrik Jacob was a jurist as well as chief of police in Christiania for some time.

Some years earlier he had made his mark as a supporter of King Charles John of Sweden and Norway, who at that time was feuding with Parliament over a proposed Royal veto.

While originally claiming that he turned down the money, a later letter from Bredo Henrik revealed that he had requested the redirection of the payment to his son.