The Vegesack family or von Vegesack ( lv, Fēgezaks, rus, Вегесак) is a
Baltic German noble family of
German
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origin, with presence in several European countries, and introduced at the
Swedish house of nobility
The House of Nobility ( sv, Riddarhuset) in Stockholm, Sweden, is a corporation and a building that maintains records and acts as an interest group on behalf of the Swedish nobility.
Name
The name is literally translated as ''House of Knights'', ...
,
and
Livonian Knighthood.
Notable members
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Eberhard von Vegesack
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Ernst von Vegesack
Ernst Mathias Peter von Vegesack (June 18, 1820 – January 12, 1903) was a Swedish Army officer and volunteer in the Union Army during American Civil War and later on was a member of the parliament of Sweden. After his return to Sweden, he was a ...
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Johan Fredrik Ernst von Vegesack
References
External links
Genealogy of von Vegesack
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Swedish noble families
German noble families
Livonian noble families
Swedish families of Baltic German ancestry