Stenbock

Stenbock is the name of two Swedish noble families . The first line has gone out; the second was represented by 12 counts in the Swedish House of Knights and had a branch in the Baltic States .

Older Stenbock line

The older noble family Stenbock has been known since the Middle Ages . It is descended from the squire and landowner Jossus Skytte, who owned the Ekornarp estate in Berga parish in western Småland . His grandson Gustav Olofsson zu Toftaholm (Stenbock) died in the 1490s without male descendants.

Gustav Olofsson's daughter Anna was married to the Reichsrat Arvid Knutsson. The son of both, Reichsrat Olof Arvidsson, took over the coat of arms of the noble line of his mother and thus became the progenitor of the new Stenbock line.

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  Family coat of arms

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  Coat of arms of Gustav Olofsson

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  Coat of arms of Olof Arvidson

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  Coat of arms of the younger line

Younger Stenbock line

Coat of arms of the Swedish counts line since Magnus Stenbock

Reichsrat Gustav Olofson, the son of the progenitor Olof Arvidsson and father of Katharina Stenbock , received the title of baron with the coronation of Erik XIV in 1650 and rose to the rank of count a year later . The family only began to use the name Stenbock at the beginning of the 17th century, which refers to the coat of arms of the older line. The current family comes from the branch that broke away from the other branches with Field Marshal Magnus Stenbock (1664–1717). Since 1752 the family was included in the knighthood of Estonia .

Known Members:

• Katharina Stenbock (1535–1621), Queen of Sweden
• Erik Stenbock (1612–1659), Swedish major general
• Gustaf Otto Stenbock (1614–1685), Swedish military and politician
• Magnus Stenbock (1665-1717), Swedish field marshal

Count Stenbock-Fermor

Coat of arms of Count Stenbock-Fermor since 1849

Magnus Johann Stenbock (1768–1834), the son of Jakob Pontus Stenbock, inherited Nitau Castle near Riga in 1828 from his mother Sarah, b. Fermor, daughter of Wilhelm von Fermor , and thereupon adopted the name Stenbock-Fermor for himself and his family , which was confirmed to him by a Russian nobility patent in 1835.

Known Members:

• Alexander Graf Stenbock-Fermor (1902–1972), Baltic German resistance fighter and author
• Nils Graf Stenbock-Fermor (1904–1969), Baltic German painter, draftsman and set designer

Essen-Stenbock-Fermor

The only daughter of Pyotr Kirillowitsch Essen from his marriage to Katharina Lwow, Alexandrine (1816–1868), married Count Karl Jakob Pontus Stenbock-Fermor (1806–1866); In 1835 the Tsar allowed them to name themselves and their descendants Essen-Stenbock-Fermor .

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  Stenbock Palace in Stockholm

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  Statue of Field Marshal Magnus Stenbock (1665–1717) in Helsingborg

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  Stenbock Palace in Tallinn

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  Kolga Castle (Estonia)

Web links

Commons : Stenbock  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Genealogical handbook of the Baltic knighthoods, 1929 (on Stenbock in Estonia)
• Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods: Livonia (on Stenbock-Fermor and Essen-Stenbock-Fermor)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} page no longer available , search in web archives: Josses Skytte , genealogy of the Högström family, with a picture of the coat of arms
2. ^ "Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knights", Part 1, Livonia, Volume 2, Görlitz, 1929, p. 689 online
3. ^ Carl Arvid von Klingspor : Baltic Wappenbuch. Coats of arms of all noble families belonging to the knights of Livonia, Estonia, Courland and Oesel . Stockholm 1882, p. 74 online