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Gyllenstierna
Gyllenstierna is a Danish and Swedish noble surname that may refer to: *Christina Gyllenstierna (1494/5–1559), wife of Sten Sture the Younger and Swedish resistance leader * Ebbe Gyllenstierna (1911–2003), Swedish Army officer and modern pentathlete * Elisabeth Gyllenstierna (1581-1646) Swedish court official * Eric Gyllenstierna (1882–1940), Swedish diplomat*Görwel Gyllenstierna (1646–1708), Swedish noblewoman duellist *Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna (1635–1680), Swedish statesman *Karin Gyllenstierna, 17th century Swedish courtier * Maria Gustava Gyllenstierna (1672–1737), Swedish countess, writer and translator * Margareta Gyllenstierna (1689–1740), Swedish political activist * Nils Gyllenstierna (1530-1601), Swedish statesman who was the Lord High Chancellor of Swedenfrom 1560 to 1590 and Lord High Steward of Sweden from 1590 to 1601 See also * *Gyldenstierne (noble family) The Gyldenstjerne family, also spelled ''Gyldenstierne'' (), is a Danish, Norwegia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nils Göransson Gyllenstierna
Nils Göransson Gyllenstierna (; c. 1526 - October 1601; sometimes Nils Jöransson, or Nisse Gyllenstierna) was a Swedish statesman and aristocrat who was Lord High Chancellor of Sweden from 1561 to 1590 and Lord high Steward of Sweden from 1590 to 1601. He is most known for assisting Johan III in ascending the Swedish throne. Early life Childhood and schooling: 1530-1550 Nils Gyllenstierna was born in 1530, the oldest of five children of Privy Councillor Göran Eriksson Gyllenstierna and Kerstin Grip. On his father's side, he was a member of the aristocracy as a descendent of Danish Pricy Councillor Niels Eriksson to Aagaard and Restrup in Jutland. His father Göran Eriksson Gyllenstierna, as the stadtholder of Eric XI dukedom of Kalmar, Kronoberg and Öland, was one of the first to swear allegiance to Eric XI and became his most trusted advisor. His mother, Kerstin, was a daughter of the , a powerful dynasty in middle-age Sweden. In 1542, his father, Göran, was sent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyldenstierne (noble Family)
The Gyldenstjerne family, also spelled ''Gyldenstierne'' (), is a Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish noble family divided into various branches and ranks. It is one of the oldest noble families in Scandinavia. The family surname appears, in the form of ''Guildenstern'', in William Shakespeare's tragedy ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'' (see: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern). The surname should not be confused with Gyldensteen ("Golden Stone"), the name of another short-lived Danish noble family, first recorded in 1717 and which became extinct in 1749. The family has a prominent position in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish history. It belonged to the higher nobility, and paradoxically, in Sweden it supported the absolute monarchy. The member with the highest standing was the noblewoman Kristina Nilsdotter Gyllenstierna, who as Sten Sture the younger's wife was ''regent consort of Sweden''. History Denmark The oldest known man in the family is the knight Lord Nils Eriksson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Gyllenstierna
Christina Nilsdotter Gyllenstierna of Fogelvik (Swedish: ''Kristina'' or ''Kerstin'': 1494 – January 1559, Hörningsholm Castle) was a Swedish noblewoman. She was married to the Swedish regent Sten Sture the Younger, and led the Swedish resistance against Christian II of Denmark after the death of her spouse. In her own lifetime she was simply referred to as ''Fru Kristina'' ('Lady Christina'), but she has become known in history as ''Kristina Gyllenstierna'' because of the house of nobility to which she belonged.Tegenborg Falkdalen, Karin, Margareta Regina: vid Gustav Vasas sida : n biografi över Margareta Leijonhufvud (1516-1551) Setterblad, Stockholm, 2016 Early life Christina Gyllenstierna was born to ''riksråd'' Nils Eriksson (Gyllenstierna), Lord of Tullgarn (also written with the Danish spelling Niels Eriksen, and surnamed "Gyllenstjerna" by later historians) and Sigrid Eskilsdotter (Banér) of Venngarn, Heir of Lindholm. She was a great-granddaughter of King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Gyllenstierna
Baron Eric Gyllenstierna af Lundholm (27 March 1882 – 26 June 1940) was a Swedish diplomat. Gyllenstierna served as Swedish envoy to the Soviet Union, Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Greece from 1937 to 1939. Early life Gyllenstierna was born on 27 March 1882 at Krapperup Castle in Höganäs Municipality, Sweden, the son of landowner, ''Friherre'' Nils Gyllenstierna and his wife Ellen (née Stiernstedt). He was the brother of Major General . He passed '' mogenhetsexamen'' in 1900 and received a Juris utriusque candidate degree from Lund University on 15 December 1909. Career Gyllenstierna served in the judge's office in Luggude Hundred and Medelstad Hundred from 1910 to 1912. Gyllenstierna held district court and judge appointments in Medelstad in 1912. Gyllenstierna was an assistant (''Amanuens'') at the Ministry for Civil Service Affairs from 1913 to 1915 and notary in the Committee on Agriculture from 1913 to 1915. He then served as secretary of the Parliamentary Ombudsman from 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebbe Gyllenstierna
''Friherre'' Ebbe Gyllenstierna af Lundholm (12 November 1911 – 14 May 2003) was a Swedish Army officer and a modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics and finished 16th. Early life Gyllenstierna was born on 12 November 1911 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of major general, ''friherre'', Göran Gyllenstierna and his wife Anna (née Neijber). Career He was commissioned as an officer in the Life Regiment of Horse (K 1) with the rank of ''fänrik'' in 1932. He represented Sweden in modern pentathlon in Hungary and Germany 1935-1936 and competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Gyllenstierna served as military attaché in Brussels from 1936 to 1937 and was promoted to ''ryttmästare'' (cavalry captain) in 1941. The same year, Gyllenstierna was promoted to captain in the Swedish Armoured Troops. In 1943, he was promoted to captain of the General Staff Corps, and he served as '' aide-de-camp'' to the Chief of Army, lieutenant general Ivar Holmquist from 1943 to 1944. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margareta Gyllenstierna
Margareta Gyllenstierna af Fogelvik (c. 1689 - 26 January 1740), was a politically active Swedish countess, married to Arvid Horn, the President of the Privy Council Chancellery (1710–1719 and 1720–1738) and one of the leading figures of the Swedish Age of Liberty. Life Margareta Gyllenstierna was the 6th of 10 children of Count Nils Karlsson Gyllenstierna (1648-1720) and Anna Christina Gyllenstierna af Björksund (1657-1715): her year of birth is not stated, but it is likely 1689, as she was born in between her sisters Sidonia (1688-1701) and Charlotta (1690-1695). Being the only child so survive to adulthood, she was the heiress of great estates in Småland and Östergötland. She married Horn in his third marriage in 1710. She had five children, two sons and three daughters. During the 1720s and 1730s, Margareta Gyllenstierna and Arvid Horn played a similar role as Magdalena Stenbock and Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna in the 1680s and 1690s, and Christina Piper and Carl P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna
Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna (18 February 1635 – 10 June 1680) was a Swedish statesman. Biography He completed his studies at Uppsala University and then visited most of the European states, which laid the foundation for his deep insight into international politics which afterwards distinguished him. On his return home he met King Charles X in the Danish islands and was in close attendance upon him until the monarch's death in 1660. He began his political career at the diet which assembled in the autumn of the same year. An aristocrat by birth, he nevertheless belonged to a family which had not benefitted from the lavishness of recent regimes. Both personal interest and patriotism thus contributed to his zeal for the recovery of the crown lands and for strengthening the crown against the aristocratic families. In the Upper House he was the spokesman of the gentry against the magnates, whose inordinate privileges he sought to curtail or abolish. His adversaries vainly endeav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Gyllenstierna
Elisabeth Gyllenstierna (1581–1646) was a Swedish court official. She was the ''överhovmästarinna'' to Christina, Queen of Sweden, from 1634 until 1639. She was the daughter of the ''riksdrots'' baron Nils Göransson Gyllenstierna af Lundholm and Ebba Bielke af Åkerö. In 1608, she married the admiral and ''riksråd Riksrådet (in Norwegian and Swedish) or Rigsrådet (in Danish or English: the Council of the Realm and the Council of the State – sometimes translated as the "Privy Council") is the name of the councils of the Scandinavian countries that ...'' nobleman Hans Claesson Bielkenstierna (d. 1620). She was appointed head lady in waiting in 1634. During her tenure, she is known to have made use of her position to recommend relatives to offices, and it is noted that she had her daughters Ebba and Karin and her niece Ebba Gyllenstierna to maids-of-honours.Eva Österberg, red (1997). Jämmerdal & Fröjdesal. Kvinnor i stormaktstidens Sverige. Stockholm: Atlantis AB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Gyllenstierna
Karin Göransdotter Gyllenstierna (before 1538 – died between 1602 and 1605) was a Swedish courtier. She served as Chief Court Mistress to queen Catherine Jagellon and, after her death, to Princess Anna Vasa of Sweden. Biography Private life Karin was the daughter of riksråd Göran Eriksson Gyllenstierna of Fogelvik (- 1575) and Kerstin Nilsdotter Grip (- 1538). She was thereby a relative of the famous Christina Gyllenstierna. She married Nils Månsson Natt och Dag in 1553. She was thereby the sister-in-law of Margareta Birgersdotter Grip, who were also her neighbor on the estate Bro. She became a widow in 1554, and gave birth to her son Nils Nilsson Natt och Dag (1554-1613) posthumously. As the guardian of her son, she managed his estate until he was declared of legal majority in 1573. In 1566, she became engaged to riksråd Ivar Ivarsson Liljeörn. She never married him, but the couple consummated their engagement and had a son, Ivar Ivarsson (1567-1590). In 1567, her fiancé ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Gustava Gyllenstierna
Maria Gustava Gyllenstierna (27 October 1672–5 November 1737) was a Swedish countess, writer and translator. She was the daughter of count Christoffer Gyllenstierna and Gustava Juliana Oxenstierna and married in 1693 to count Karl Bonde of Björnö. After she became a widow in 1699, she lived on Tyresö Palace, which she had inherited from her grandmother Maria Sofia De la Gardie. She translated foreign works, wrote a work of the life of Jesus which was published in 1730–36, and wrote 600 sonnets. She gathered a circle of professors on Tyresö and corresponded with among others Sophia Elisabet Brenner Sophia Elisabet Brenner (; 29 April 1659 – 14 September 1730) was a Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess. Biography Sophia Elisabet Brenner was born to the builder Niklas Weber, who was a German immigrant, and Kristina Spoor. Sh .... She was described as one of the most learned women of her epoch, and it was said that this made her unpopular among the ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Görwel Gyllenstierna
Görwel Christina Carlsdotter Gyllenstierna (1646–1708) was a Swedish noblewoman, duellist and landowner. Görwel was the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Carl Nilsson Gyllenstierna of Fågelvik and Hässelby (1621–1650) and Sidonia Mannersköld (1620–1656). She was famous among her contemporaries for her great learning as well as for her interest and skill in sports normally reserved for males. She was referred to as "A Minerva and an Amazons, Amazon in one" and was a student of not only chemistry, theology, natural science and other subjects but also active within hunting, fencing and other "Knightly practises" rather than "feminine tasks", something which attracted a lot of attention. She made herself widely known when in 1661 she challenged Lieutenant Colonel David Kohl to a duel for marrying her cousin Görwel Nilsdotter Gyllenstierna against the consent of her family. Görwel Christina married Lieutenant Colonel Leonard Schulman (1644–1677) in 1670. After his death, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord High Chancellor Of Sweden
The Lord High Chancellor () was a prominent and influential office in Sweden, from 1538 until 1799, excluding periods when the office was out of use. The office holder was a member of the Privy Council. From 1634, the Lord High Chancellor was one of five Great Officers of the Realm, who were the most prominent members of the Privy Council and headed a governmental branch each—the Lord High Chancellor headed the Privy Council. In 1792, more than a century after the office's abolition in 1680, it was revived, but was then finally abolished again seven years later in 1799. Origins During the Middle Ages, from the 13th century, the "chancellor of the King" was a close confidant of the King. The chancellor was in general a man of the church, and one part of his duty was to aid the King during negotiations with foreign powers. In 1560, during King Eric XIV's reign, Nils Gyllenstierna became the first to receive the title ''Rikskansler''. Function The Lord High Chancellor was ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
