{{no footnotes, date=December 2012 COA-family-sv-friherrlig Carpelan

Carpelan family is a Finnish noble family from

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. Squire Paval Karppalainen from

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was ennobled in 1407 by king

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. After the extinction of his male line, his granddaughter's son continued the family name and took up his mothers arms. His descendants were registered under number 38 among the untitled nobility at the Swedish House of Nobility when it was established in 1625. Vilhelm Karpelan, lieutenant general and commander of the Westrobothnian Regiment, was created friherre Carpelan, together with his fraternal nephew Karl Ephraim Karpelan, lieutenant colonel, by king Adolf Frederick of Sweden on 15 October 1771. In 1776 the family was registered under number 281 among baronial class of the House. When

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had in 1809 become a Grand Duchy of the

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, those members of the Carpelan family who resided there and swore fealty to the Grand Duke, Emperor Alexander I, were confirmed in their noble privileges and titles as to the

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. Accordingly, when the Finnish House of Nobility was established, the baronial family of Carpelan was registered there under number 19 among the baronial class (''

vapaaherra (; male, abbreviated as ), (; his wife, abbreviated as , literally "free lord" or "free lady") and (, his unmarried daughters and maiden aunts) are designations used as titles of nobility in the German-speaking areas of the Holy Roman Empire ...

llinen suku numero 19'', ''friherrliga ätten nummer 19'').

Famous members

Bo Carpelan Baron Bo Gustaf Bertelsson Carpelan (25 October 1926 – 11 February 2011) was a Finland-Swedish poet and author. He published his first book of poems in 1946, and received his PhD in 1960. Carpelan, who wrote in Swedish, composed numerous books ...

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*T. Carpelan, Ättartavlor *J. Ramsay, Frälsesläkter i Finland intill Stora ofreden *E. Anthoni, Finlands medeltida frälse Finnish noble families

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