Hammarskjöld family

Hammarskjöld
Hammarskjöld
Swedish noble family
	Coat of arms
Country	Sweden
Founder	Peder Mikaelsson Hammarskjöld

The Hammarskjöld family, also known as Hammarskiöld family, is a Swedish noble family, enrolled in Riddarhuset (English: "House of Nobility") with the number of 135.

Background

The founder of the family was Peder Mikaelsson (c. 1560–1646), the Governor of Borgholm Castle.^[1] He fought for King Sigismund at Stångebro in 1598 and was knighted in 1610 with the name of Hammarskiöld. He was married twice. His first wife was Beata Körning, daughter of the slottslov ("castle commander") Erik Matsson Körning and Kjerstin Hand. His second wife, a cousin of Beata, was Christina Stjerna, the daughter of Peder Månsson Stjerna (number 77 in Riddarhuset) and Karin Hand. The two marriages produced children but the issue from his first wife went out early on the "sword side" (svärdssidan, literally "on the side of the sword" meaning without any male heirs).

As early as 1607 Peder Mikaelsson Hammarskiöld received as his properties the manors in the present Oskarshamn Municipality – Misterhult, Virbo and Fårbo – and, in the present Vimmerby Municipality, Tuna, all in the modern Kalmar County for providing five fully armed men for the defense. Tuna is still a family estate for the Hammarskjölds, and the church there houses the family mausoleum for them. The family was introduced to Riddarhuset in 1628. The son of the second marriage, Major Arvid Hammarskjöld, married Anna Dorothea Patkull. The Hammarskjöld dynasty continued with their son, Colonel Carl Gustaf Hammarskjöld, who married Baroness Hedvig Ulfsparre of Broxvik, whose mother belonged to the Stake family (number 47 in Riddarhuset).

A younger branch of the family has been partners and managing directors of Skultuna Messingbruk, a Swedish manufacturer of cuff links in Skultuna near Västerås in Västmanland, by intermarriage with the Adlerwald family. In 2014, there were 61 people who bear the Hammarskjöld or Hammarskiöld surname in Sweden.

Notable members of the family

Peder Mikaelsson Hammarskjöld [sv] (c. 1560–1646), soldier
- Arvid Hammarsköld (1626–1678), army officer
  - Carl Gustaf Hammarsköld (1662–1729), army officer
    - Carl Hammarsköld (1694–1774), army officer
      - Mikael Hammarskjöld (1732–1802), official (hovjägmästare)
        Vilhelm Hammarskjöld (1780–1843), factory manager
        Peder Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1817–1861), factory manager (husband of Emilie Hammarskjöld (née Holmberg) (1821–1854), Swedish-American musician
      - Carl Gustaf Hammarsköld (1729–1799), army officer and chamberlain
        Arvid Hammarskiöld (1787–1866), army officer
        Per Teodor Hammarskiöld (1819–1908), army officer
        Ludvig Hammarskiöld (1869–1958), army officier
        Karin Augusta Sofia Hammarskjöld (1897–1975), businesswoman
        
        Per Arvid Magnus Hammarskiöld (1899–1988), engineer
        Hans Hammarskiöld (1925–2012), photographer
        
        Sven Ludvig Hammarskiöld (1901–1983), judge
        Gerd Hammarskiöld (born 1926), librarian
        Eva Hamilton (b. 1954), journalist and television executive
        
        Göran Hammarskjöld (1906–1969), army officer
        
        Lennart Hammarskiöld [sv] (1912–1974), banker
        
        Lorenzo Hammarsköld (1785–1827), author
        
        Carl Åke Hammarskjöld (1768–1848), official (Groom of the Chamber)
        Carl Leonard Hammarskjöld (1807–1878), army officer
        Åke Hugo Hammarskjöld (1845–1937), architect and farmer
        Carl Olof Hammarskjöld (1880–1949), lawyer
        Sven Olof Hammarskjöld (1909–1993), physician
        Anders Hammarskjöld [sv] (born 1942), army officer
        
        Carl Hammarskjöld [sv] (1838–1898), politician (Minister of Education (1880–1888))
        
        Hugo Hammarskjöld (1845–1937), politician (Minister of Education (1906–1909))
        
        Knut Vilhelm Hammarskjöld (1818–1891), army officer
        Carl Gustaf Waldemar Hammarskjöld (1865–1940), army officer
        Carl Gustaf Fredrik Knut Hammarskjöld (1904–1994), engineer and officer
        Carl-Gustaf Hammarskjöld [sv] (born 1934)
        
        Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953), politician (Prime Minister (1914–1917))
        Bo Hammarskjöld [sv] (1891–1974), politician (Governor of Södermanland (1935–1958))
        Claes Åke Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (born 1924), county director
        
        Åke Hammarskjöld (1893–1937), civil servant and diplomat
        Knut Hammarskjöld [sv] (1922–2012), diplomat
        Erik Hammarskjöld [sv] (born 1954), diplomat
        
        Peder Hammarskjöld [sv] (1923–1994), diplomat
        Elinor Hammarskjöld (born 1967), lawyer and diplomat
        
        Michaël Olof Hjalmar Åkesson (1929–2001), official (Secretary of the House of Nobility)
        
        Sten Hjalmar Fridolf Knut Hammarskjöld (1900–1972), journalist and author
        
        Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961), diplomat (Secretary-General of the United Nations)
        
        Carl Gustaf Hammarskjöld (1865–1940), politician (Secretary of Defence (1920–1921))
        Carl Gustaf Fredrik Knut Hammarskjöld (1904–1994), engineer
        
        Bengt Gustaf Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1905–1997)

References

^ "Hammarskjöld, släkt". sok.riksarkivet.se. Retrieved 2022-02-28.

(in Swedish) Svenskt biografiskt lexikon [ Swedish Biographical Dictionary ]
(in Swedish) [Johan] Gabriel Anrep, "Adel ätten [ Noble family of ] Hammarsköld, N:o 135", Svenska adelns Ättar-taflor [ Pedigree Tables of the Swedish Nobility ], Volume 2 (Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Söner, 1861), pages 191–195
(in English) Statistics Sweden [ Statistiska centralbyrån ], “Namesearch. How many are named...?", results obtained 4 January 2014.

[1] "Hammarskjöld, släkt". sok.riksarkivet.se. Retrieved 2022-02-28.

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