Trolls (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the trolls
Crest of the trolls (with a headless troll )

Trolls is the name of a Swedish nobility family , which for a time also had a Danish branch.

history

Ruins of Bergkvara Castle in Småland

The family comes from the province of Småland . The first member of the family is the knight Birger Knutsson , who died around 1367. He was also called Birghe Trulle because he had a troll in the coat of arms. His son Birger Birgersson Trolle the Elder is mentioned for the first time as a squire in 1401 and as a knight in 1441. He owned Bo Castle (since then called Trollebo ), which is located in the municipality of Vetlanda . His son Birger Birgersson Trolle the Younger (approx. 1401–1471) inherited his father's castle Bo and Bergkvara Castle (in the municipality of Bergunda in the Värend district , Småland) from his half-brother Håkan Karlsson from the Stjärna family. Bergkvara remained in the family until 1521.

One of Birger Birgersson's grandchildren was Erik Trolle , who became Swedish ruler in 1512. His son Gustav Trolle became a politically controversial figure as Archbishop of Uppsala. Erik's half-brother Joachim Trolle († 1546) founded a Danish line. This acquired the Braade estate in 1562 and renamed it Trolholm; In 1707 she sold it to Count Ulrich Adolph von Holstein , who renamed it Holsteinborg (in today's Holsteinborg Sogn ).

The Swedish line died out in 1568. With Arvid Trolle (1653–1698), however, a Danish troll returned to Sweden and founded the branch of the family, which is represented here to this day, while the Danish one expired in 1787. Nils Trolle (1777-1827) was raised to the status of a Swedish baron in 1816 .

Own

Trollenäs Castle in Eslöv was inherited from the Tott family in 1682 by the trolls who are still based there today.

Trolleholm Castle in the municipality of Svalöv , which was acquired in 1680, came into the possession of this family through the marriage of Vivikas Trolle to Count Gustav Bonde in the 19th century, who still own it today and bears the name Trolle-Bonde .

Castle Trolle-Ljungby in Kristianstad and castle Trolleberg in Staffanstorp fell through the marriage of Hilla Birgitta trolls with Carl Axel Wachtmeister (1754-1810) on a line of Count Wachtmeister that these locks still owns and since 1810 the name trolls sergeant leads .

Baron Axel Fabian Löwen bequeathed the Trollesund manor in Nyköping in 1808 to Lieutenant Colonel Baron Fredrik Trolle, whose descendants are still based there today and bear the name Trolle-Löwen .

Kulla Gunnarstorp Castle in Helsingborg came to her son Gustav Trolle in 1978 through Countess Charlotte Wachtmeister.

  • Trollenäs Castle

  • Trolleholm Castle

  • Trolle-Ljungby Castle

  • Trolleberg Castle

  • Trollesund mansion

  • Kulla Gunnarstorp Castle

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