The Adlercreutz family () is a

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and Finnish

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Its oldest known ancestor is Swedish speaking Finn, Erik Markusson, dead 1654, who was a farmer in Biskops, Iso-Teutari,

Lohja Lohja (; ) is a town in Finland, located in the southern interior of the country. Lohja is situated in the western part of the Uusimaa region. The population of Lohja is approximately . It is the most populous Municipalities of Finland, munici ...

, Uusimaa,

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. His son Tomas Eriksson Teuterström (1643–1710) served king Charles XI and Charles XII in the Treasury and was knighted on 26 September 1700 in Karlshamn by King Charles XII of Sweden with the name Adlercreutz, and was introduced at Swedish House of Nobility, Riddarhuset in 1703 with the number 1382, which has later been changed to 1386 B. Among the members of the Swedish noble family was major general, later general of the cavalry and one of the lords of the realm,

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Carl Johan Adlercreutz Carl Johan Adlercreutz (27 April 1757 – 21 August 1815) was a Swedish general and statesman, born in Borgå (Porvoo), Finland on family estates. Entering the Swedish army aged 13 in the Finnish Light Cavalry Brigade, he was present when Gust ...

(1757–1815). On 30 June 1808 he was, as commander of the Sword Order, elevated into the then second class, the class of knights, and his family became a commander family with the number 1386 A. The commander family includes the

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ial family Adlercreutz and the

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family Adlercreutz. Two members of the family were immatriculated in the

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on 17 September 1818 as noble family number 97. Other members of the family include

prime minister Axel Gustav Adlercreutz, professor of law Axel Adlercreutz and professor of medicin Herman Adlercreutz as well as the modernist architect Eric Adlercreutz. Erik Adlercreutz, a member of the Adlercreutz family, moved in 1917 to Argentina; establishing an Argentinian branch of the Adlercreutz family. In 2014, there were 37 holders of the surname Adlercreutz in Argentina.

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