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 Borgholm Castle. He fought for King Sigismund 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 Oskarshamn Municipality – 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 Skultuna near

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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), soldier **Arvid Hammarsköld (1626–1678), army officer ***Carl Gustaf Hammarsköld (1662–1729), army officer ****Carl Hammarsköld (1694–1774), army officer *****Mikael Hammarskjöld (1732–1802), official ('' hovjägmästare'') ******Vilhelm Hammarskjöld (1780–1843), factory manager *******Peder Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1817–1861), factory manager (husband of

Emilie Hammarskjöld Emilie Augusta Kristina Hammarskjöld née Holmberg (May 6, 1821 – March 26, 1854) was a Swedish composer and musician. She was active as a concert singer, a pianist and a music instructor. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Mus ...

(''née'' Holmberg; 1821–1854), Swedish-American musician) *****Carl Gustaf Hammarsköld (1729–1799), army officer and chamberlain ******Arvid Hammarskiöld (1787–1866), army officer *******Per Teodor Hammarskiöld (1819–1908), army officer ******** Ludvig Hammarskiöld (1869–1958), army officier *********Karin Augusta Sofia Hammarskjöld (1897–1975), businesswoman *********Per ''Arvid'' Magnus Hammarskiöld (1899–1988), engineer ********** Hans Hammarskiöld (1925–2012), photographer *********''Sven'' Ludvig Hammarskiöld (1901–1983), judge **********Gerd Hammarskiöld (born 1926), librarian *********** Eva Hamilton (b. 1954), journalist and television executive *********Göran Hammarskjöld (1906–1969), army officer ********* (1912–1974), banker ****** Lorenzo Hammarsköld (1785–1827), author ******Carl Åke Hammarskjöld (1768–1848), official (

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) *******Carl Leonard Hammarskjöld (1807–1878), army officer ********Åke Hugo Hammarskjöld (1845–1937), architect and farmer *********Carl Olof Hammarskjöld (1880–1949), lawyer **********Sven Olof Hammarskjöld (1909–1993), physician *********** (born 1942), army officer ******** (1838–1898), politician (Minister of Education (1880–1888)) ******** Hugo Hammarskjöld (1845–1937), politician (Minister of Education (1906–1909)) *******Knut Vilhelm Hammarskjöld (1818–1891), army officer ********Carl Gustaf Waldemar Hammarskjöld (1865–1940), army officer *********Carl Gustaf Fredrik Knut Hammarskjöld (1904–1994), engineer and officer ********** (born 1934) ******** Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953), politician (Prime Minister (1914–1917)) (husband of Agnes Hammarskjöld (''née'' Almqvist; 1866–1940)) ********* (1891–1974), politician (Governor of

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

Dag Hammarskjöld Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (English: ,; 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 Septe ...

(1905–1961), diplomat (

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) ******** Carl Gustaf Hammarskjöld (1865–1940), politician (Secretary of Defence (1920–1921)) *********Carl Gustaf Fredrik Knut Hammarskjöld (1904–1994), 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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