Not so with Lilliehöök

Anders Johansson Lilliehöök af Fårdala (born December 19, 1635 in Riga , † November 17, 1685 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish diplomat at the Polish royal court.

Life

Anders Lilliehöök was the son of Johan Nilsson Lilliehöök af Fårdala (1598–1642), from his second marriage to Ingeborg Bååt (1614–1635), the daughter of Vice-President Jacob Jacobsen Snakenborg. The mother died eleven days after his birth in childbirth . In the absence of his father, he became Governor And. Hästehufvud raised in Riga, who after the death of his father in 1642 handed him over to the Councilor Lars Sparre, whose wife was Anders Lilliehööks aunt. He sent him to Uppsala University in 1643 , where he held a disputation in 1652 . In 1651 he and his siblings were elevated to the status of a Swedish baron, also for the services of his father.

In 1655 he accompanied King Karl X. Gustav on his ship to Pomerania and from there set out on a journey through Germany , the Netherlands and France . In 1657 he came to Heidelberg , the royal seat of the Electoral Palatinate . Elector Karl I. Ludwig made Lilliehöök , who was very popular at the court, chamberlain and sent him to the King of Sweden in October 1657 with a secret message. This appointed him for his service to the royal chamberlain.

The unexpected death of his brother Jacob Lilliehöök forced him to return home. After the death of Karl X. Gustav in 1660 he was appointed by the government to a chancellery, but in 1661 he was appointed Landsdomar in Skåne and assistant councilor of the local government general. In 1663 he was appointed President of the Swedish Pomeranian Government and the Pomeranian Court . However, he refused this office and finally became Landshövding in Östergötland in 1665 .

Envoy to Poland

The following year he was sent to the Polish court in Warsaw as envoy extraordinary. Here he was initially faced with a general anti-Swedish attitude. In addition to King John II Casimir and Queen Luisa Maria , he was soon able to win over former Chancellor Bogusław Leszczyński and thus improve relations between Poland and Sweden until his departure in February 1667. He then served at the Swedish court for several years, until he was sent again to Poland as extraordinary ambassador in 1674 to represent Swedish interests as an observer in the election of the king. This time too he had good contacts with the Polish magnates , in particular with the primate and archbishop of Gniezno , Andrzej Olszowski . In August 1674 he started his journey home, but was ordered by the king to Danzig , where he was to await further instructions. Because of unrest between the council and the citizens of the city, he evaded to Stettin, from where the king sent him again to the Polish court. He traveled to Greater Poland via the Brandenburg part of Pomerania . In Köslin his luggage was confiscated and his people arrested, who were only released after eleven weeks. He took part in the coronation of King John III. Sobieski part.

On the subsequent journey home he was again ordered to the Polish court. It turned into a diplomatic conflict when the Polish envoy Gursinski reported to Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg about these insulting statements by Lilliehöök. The elector then declared Lilliehöok's behavior as an ambassador to be unworthy and the latter deserved to be punished with a stick. Lilliehöök, to whom Gursinski had conveyed the elector's words, then gave a speech to the Polish king in which he presented the threatened flogging as a violation of his dignity as envoy of the Swedish king and promised appropriate retaliation. Friedrich Wilhelm complained to the Swedish king and asked for satisfaction, but the latter refused. The elector, the king of Denmark and the emperor then sent complaints about Lilliehöök to the Polish king, who disapproved of the statements but refused to take further measures.

In 1677 he negotiated the conclusion of an alliance between Sweden and Poland. He was stopped again in 1680 after his departure from Warsaw, this time because of the request of the Polish king for the mediation of the Swedish king Karl XI. between Poland and Russia. After several months in Gdansk, he was finally able to travel to Stockholm when the conclusion of a contract was delayed by the Russian side.

Last years in Sweden

In 1682 he fell out of favor because of statements relating to the king's goods reductions. He managed to get forgiveness from the king. In 1683 he was appointed President of the Wismar Tribunal , for which he received an annual salary of 4,000 Reichstalers, but never took up the position.

With Anders Lilliehöök, who was buried in the Riddarholmskyrkan , the male baronial line of the Lilliehööks died out in 1685. A son from his marriage to Märta Horn af Marienborg (1646–1668) died in infancy. The second marriage with his cousin Maria Elisabeth Bååt (1649–1682) remained childless.

literature

• Not so with Lilliehöök . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : L – Z, including supplement . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 59 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
• Gabriel Anrep : Svenska Adelns Ättar-Taflor. Part 2: Granfelt från Dal - Mörner af Tuna. Norstedt & Söner, Stockholm 1861, p. 709 .
• Lilliehöök, Anders Johansson. In: Biographiskt Lexicon öfver namnkunnige svenska men. Volume 8, part 1. Lindh, Uppsala 1841, pp. 183-189.