Cornelius Anckarstjerna
Cornelius Anckarstjerna (born as Cornelius Thyssen ) (born January 25, 1655 in Stockholm , † April 21, 1714 at Knutstorp Castle , Skåne County ) was a Swedish admiral and baron .
family
Anckarstjerna was the son of the sea captain Didrik Thyssen . He was probably related to Martin (Thyssens) Anckarhjelm, who must have been born at the same time and also entered the service of the Swedish Navy.
Anckarstjerna was married twice. His first marriage was with Elisabeth Kröger, daughter of Vice Admiral Otto Siöstierna . After her death he married the daughter of Gustaf Adolph Sparre . Her name was Margareta Elisabet and she lived from 1671 to 1724.
Military career
As a very young man, Anckarstjerna learned to sail and was accepted into the Swedish Navy as a boatman. On October 26, 1678 he was raised to the nobility and received the name Anckarstjerna from the Swedish King Charles XI. awarded. A large part of this appointment was probably due to the bitter defense of the ship Kalmar Kastell during a battle with the Danish Navy. As the captain of this ship, Anckarstjerna refused to hand over the ship to the Danish fleet. When the fight seemed hopeless, he sank the ship so that it would not fall into the hands of the Danes.
At the end of the reign of Charles XI. he was appointed admiral on January 27, 1692 and raised to the rank of baron .
During the landing at Humlebæk in 1700, Anckerstjerna was in command of the entire Swedish fleet. The fleet supported the invasion of the Swedish army, under the command of the new Swedish King Charles XII. , on the Danish island of Zealand . Furthermore, he was in command of the fleet that brought the Swedish king to Livonia in the autumn .
In 1704 Anckerstjerna tried to conquer the new capital of Russia, Saint Petersburg, together with the Swedish general Georg Johann Maydell . He sailed with 22 warships, armed with 462 cannons, in front of the fortress in the mouth of the Neva and began to fire. The conquest failed because the infantry under Maydell failed to close the siege ring around the city and withdrew.
On December 29, 1712, he retired from military service and was appointed lieutenant general.
He died in 1714 on his estate in Knutstorp Castle.
literature
- Anckarstjerna, Cornelius Didriksson (Thyssens) . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-K . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 29 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- Eduard Pelz: History of Peter the Great . Leipzig (1848)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Anckarstjerna, Cornelius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thyssen, Cornelius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish admiral and baron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1655 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1714 |
| Place of death | Knutstorp Castle , Skåne County |