Henrik Bjelke (13 January 1615 – 16 March 1683) was a Norwegian-Danish military officer who served as Admiral of the Realm of Denmark-Norway from 1662 to 1679.

He resigned from the service of Frederick Henry when he learned of the invasion of Jutland under the command of Swedish Field Marshall Lennart Torstenson in 1644 and went to Denmark.

[3][4] After the peace agreements of the Second Treaty of Brömsebro (1645), he left to journey abroad and was for a time with Corfitz Ulfeldt in the Netherlands but then went into the service of General Peter Melander Graf von Holzappel in Westfalia.

In 1663, Frederick III also granted a property north of Copenhagen to Bjelke and his wife Edel Ulfeldt for life.

Bjelke expanded the estate with several new tenant farms prior to its elevation to manor house in 1682.