Göran Göransson Gyllenstierna

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Baron Göran Göransson Gyllenstierna , also the elder , ( Swedish Göran Göransson den äldre earlier Gyllenstierna af Lundholm ; * 1601 in Årsta , † March 30, 1646 in Almare-Stäket ) was a Swedish admiral .

Life

Origin and family

Göran was a member of the Swedish barons Gyllenstierna af Lundholm . His parents were of Swedish Empire Admiral Göran Nilsson Gyllenstierna (1575-1618) and Ingeborg Claes yolk Bielkenstierna († 1628). Johan Nilsson Gyllenstierna (1569–1617), counter- imperial admiral in the Swedish-Polish throne dispute and founder of the Pomeranian Güldenstern line , was his uncle.

Göran married Anna Skytte (1610–1679), a daughter of Johan Skytte (1577–1645) , in 1630 and had seven children with her, including the sons and later (1674) Counts of Björksund and Helgö ( Greve af Björksund och Helgö ) , Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna (1635–1680), Swedish statesman and Göran Göransson Gyllenstierna (1632–1686), Swedish Imperial Council .

Career

Gyllenstierna studied in Tübingen from 1617 to 1620 . From 1627 to 1630 he was Rittmeister in the cavalry regiment of Småland . He was promoted to Vice Admiral in 1633 and was adjutant to Imperial Admiral Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm (1574-1650) in 1635 . Finally, from 1640, he was Admiral and Landshövding in Uppsala County .

He died on his Almare-Stäket estate and was buried in the Riddarholm Church in Stockholm, where his widow had an epitaph made of black and white marble . A street was named after him in the north of Järfälla municipality .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gabriel Anrep: Svenska adelns ättartaflor. Volume 2, Stockholm 1861, pp. 137-144 (Swedish).
personal data
SURNAME Gyllenstierna, Göran Göransson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gyllenstierna af Lundholm, Göran Göransson den äldre friherre (Swedish, with title)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish admiral
DATE OF BIRTH 1601
PLACE OF BIRTH Årsta
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1646
Place of death Almare-Stäket