The Hammarskjöld family, also known as Hammarskiöld family, is a Swedish noble family, enrolled in ''Riddarhuset'' (English: " House of Nobility") with the number of 135.

Background

The founder of the family was Peder Mikaelsson (c. 1560–1646), the Governor of

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. He fought for

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at Stångebro in 1598 and was knighted in 1610 with the name of ''Hammarskiöld''. He was married twice. His first wife was Beata Körning, daughter of the ''slottslov'' ("castle commander") Erik Matsson Körning and Kjerstin Hand. His second wife, a cousin of Beata, was Christina Stjerna, the daughter of Peder Månsson Stjerna (number 77 in ''Riddarhuset'') and Karin Hand. The two marriages produced children but the issue from his first wife went out early on the "sword side" (''svärdssidan'', literally "on the side of the sword" meaning without any male heirs). As early as 1607 Peder Mikaelsson Hammarskiöld received as his properties the manors in the present

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– Misterhult, Virbo and Fårbo – and, in the present

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, Tuna, all in the modern

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for providing five fully armed men for the defense. Tuna is still a family estate for the Hammarskjölds, and the church there houses the family mausoleum for them. The family was introduced to ''Riddarhuset'' in 1628. The son of the second marriage, Major Arvid Hammarskjöld, married Anna Dorothea Patkull. The Hammarskjöld dynasty continued with their son, Colonel Carl Gustaf Hammarskjöld, who married Baroness Hedvig Ulfsparre of Broxvik, whose mother belonged to the Stake family (number 47 in ''Riddarhuset''). A younger branch of the family has been partners and managing directors of Skultuna Messingbruk, a Swedish manufacturer of cuff links in

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, by intermarriage with the Adlerwald family. In 2014, there were 61 people who bear the Hammarskjöld or Hammarskiöld surname in Sweden.

Notable members of the family

* (c. 1560–1646), Swedish soldier **Arvid Hammarsköld (1626–1678), Swedish officer ***Carl Gustaf Hammarsköld (1662–1729), Swedish officer ****Carl Hammarsköld (1694–1774), Swedish officer *****Mikael Hammarskjöld (1732–1802), Swedish ''

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'' ******Vilhelm Hammarskjöld (1780–1843), Swedish factory manager *******Peder Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1817–1861), Swedish manager of Surahammars Bruk ******* Emilie Hammarskjöld, née Holmberg (1821–1854), Swedish-American composer, singer, pianist, music teacher and organist, wife of Peder Hjalmar from the Skultana branch *****Carl Gustaf Hammarsköld (1729–1799), Swedish officer and chamberlain ******Arvid Hammarskiöld (1787–1866), Swedish officer *******Per Teodor Hammarskiöld (1819–1908), Swedish officer ********

Ludvig Hammarskiöld Lieutenant General Peder Adolf Ludvig Regnell Hammarskiöld (26 June 1869 – 4 July 1958) was a Swedish Army officer. Hammarskiöld's senior commands include commanding officer of the 2nd Army Division and the Eastern Army Division, the position ...

(1869–1958), Swedish general, cousin of Hjalmar *********Karin Augusta Sofia Hammarskjöld (1897–1975), Swedish businesswoman *********Per ''Arvid'' Magnus Hammarskiöld (1899–1988), Swedish engineer ********** Hans Hammarskiöld (1925–2012), Swedish photographer *********''Sven'' Ludvig Hammarskiöld (1901–1983), Swedish judge **********Gerd Hammarskiöld (born 1926), Swedish librarian ***********

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*********Göran Hammarskjöld (1906–1969), Swedish officer ********* (1912–1974), Swedish banker ******

Lorenzo Hammarsköld Lorenzo Hammarsköld (b. ''Lars Hammarskjöld'', 7 April 1785 – 15 October 1827) was a Swedish critic and literary historian. He also published poetry. Biography He was born at Tuna, Vimmerby. He became a student at Uppsala in 1801, but ...

(1785–1827), Swedish author ******Carl Åke Hammarskjöld (1768–1848), Swedish

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*******Carl Leonard Hammarskjöld (1807–1878), Swedish officer ********Åke Hugo Hammarskjöld (1845–1937), Swedish architect and farmer *********Carl Olof Hammarskjöld (1880–1949), Swedish lawyer **********Sven Olof Hammarskjöld (1909–1993), Swedish physician *********** (born 1942), Swedish officer ******** (1838–1898), Minister of Education for Sweden (1880–1888) ********

Hugo Hammarskjöld Åke ''Hugo'' Hammarskjöld (20 January 1845 in Tuna, Kalmar county – 3 June 1937 in Tuna), was a Swedish public servant and politician, brother to Carl Hammarskjöld and cousin of Carl Gustaf Hammarskjöld and Hjalmar Hammarskjöld. His pa ...

(1845–1937), Minister of Education for Sweden (1906–1909), brother of Carl *******Knut Vilhelm Hammarskjöld (1818–1891), Swedish officer ********Carl Gustaf Waldemar Hammarskjöld (1865–1940), Swedish officer *********Carl Gustaf Fredrik Knut Hammarskjöld (1904–1994), Swedish engineer and officer ********** (born 1934) ********

Hjalmar Hammarskjöld Knut Hjalmar Leonard Hammarskjöld (; 4 February 1862 – 12 October 1953) was a Swedish politician, scholar, cabinet minister, Member of Parliament from 1923 to 1938 (first chamber), and Prime Minister of Sweden from 1914 to 1917. In 1890, he m ...

(1862–1953), Prime Minister of Sweden (1914–1917), cousin of Carl and Hugo ********* (1891–1974), Governor of

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(1935–1958) and State Secretary for Sweden, son of Hjalmar **********Claes Åke Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (born 1924), Swedish county director ********* Åke Hammarskjöld (1893–1937), Swedish civil servant and diplomat, son of Hjalmar, brother of Bo and Dag ********** (1922–2012), Swedish diplomat *********** (born 1954), Swedish diplomat ********** (1923–1994), Swedish diplomat *********** (born 1967), Swedish diplomat **********Michaël Olof Hjalmar Åkesson (1929–2001), Swedish Secretary of the House of Nobility *********Sten Hjalmar Fridolf Knut Hammarskjöld (1900–1972), Swedish journalist, author *********

Dag Hammarskjöld Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld ( , ; 29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 196 ...

(1905–1961),

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, son of Hjalmar and brother of Åke and Bo ******** Carl Gustaf Hammarskjöld (1865–1940), Secretary of Defense for Sweden (1920–1921), brother of Hjalmar and cousin of Carl and Hugo *********Carl Gustaf Fredrik Knut Hammarskjöld (1904–1994), Swedish engineer *********Bengt Gustaf Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1905–1997)

References

* ''Svenskt biografiskt lexikon'' ''Swedish Biographical Dictionary'' * ohanGabriel Anrep, "''Adel ätten'' Noble family of
Hammarsköld
N:o 135''", ''Svenska adelns Ättar-taflor'' ''Pedigree Tables of the Swedish Nobility'' Volume 2 (Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Söner, 1861), pages 191-195 * Statistics Sweden ''Statistiska centralbyrån'' �
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