Hans Wachtmeister
Hans Wachtmeister († 1590 ) was a Swedish field marshal .
Life
family
Hans Wachtmeister, who came from a noble family on the island of Dagö and was a son of Claes Wachtmeister († after 1550), was the founder of all Swedish generations of sergeants .
He married Beata Eriksdotter (nee Stålarm). The marriage had three children, including:
- Claes Wachtmeister († 1631) Estonian Lantrat, ⚭ Elisabet Wrangel († 1666)
- Beata Wachtmeister († after 1661), ⚭ Claas Uggla († 1676), Swedish admiral
Career
Sergeant was initially in German military service. In 1569 he went from old Livonia , as a cavalry master in Swedish services and led as such for Johann III. a German aristocratic flag in the Livonian War against the Russians in the 1570s . In 1581 he was Swedish field commander or field colonel in Estonia and in 1582 he also held the title of field marshal. He was one of the Swedish negotiators for the Pusmund peace agreement . In 1588 he was acting Swedish governor in Estonia.
As early as 1578 he was raised to the Swedish nobility at the same time as a number of other German knights . He was since 1575 hereditary lord on the manor Aunack on Dagö which already belonged to his father and grandfather. In 1578 he had also acquired Laakt and in 1581 received Poll as a fief of the Swedish crown. Wachtmeister was buried in Reval on May 8, 1590 . His widow was confirmed in 1601 the ownership rights of Field Marshal Hans Wachtmeister over the servants and farmsteads Waifer, Suriküla, Aunack, Häsenhöffen, Alixsar, also some islands (Holmen), occupied and desolate land on Dagö.
literature
- Biographiskt lexicon öfver namnkunnige svenska men , Volume 19, Upsala 1853, p. 94 (Swedish).
Web links
- Hans Wachtmeister on adelsvapen.com (= Gustaf Elgenstierna : Den introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor. Stockholm 1925–1936; Swedish).
- Hans Wachtmeister . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 31 : Ural vertex . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1921, Sp. 221-222 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (edit.): Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods Part 2, 1.2: Estland, Görlitz 1930, pp. 265–269.
- ↑ Anton von Stiernman: matrikel öfwer Swea rikes ridderskap och needle. Stockholm 1754, p. 24.
- ^ Karsten Brüggemann and Ralph Tuchtenhagen : residents and representatives of the city of Reval / Tallinn. In: Tallinn. Little history of the city. Cologne-Weimar-Vienna 2011, p. 4.
- ^ Regest in the AIS information system of the Estonian National Archives in Tallinn.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sergeant, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish field marshal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century or 16th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1590 |