Hans Reinhold von Fersen (2 March 1683
Tallinn
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– 25 May 1736
Stockholm) was a Swedish
count
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, politician and soldier. He served as
lieutenant general
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from 1720 and as president of the
Svea Court of Appeal
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History
The Svea C ...
from 1731.
He was the son of count
Reinhold Johan von Fersen and Anna Sophia von Ungern-Sternberg. In 1715 he himself married countess Eleonora Margareta Wachtmeister, daughter of the royal counsellor
Axel Wachtmeister
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. They had two children:
*
Carl Reinhold von Fersen (7 April 1716, Stockholm – 7 May 1786, Stockholm)
*
Fredrik Axel von Fersen (5 April 1719 – 24 April 1794)
References
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1683 births
1736 deaths
17th-century Estonian people
18th-century Estonian people
Baltic-German people
Swedish nobility
Estonian nobility
Swedish politicians
Swedish generals
Estonian people of Swedish descent
Politicians from Tallinn
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