Johan Palmfelt, Baron

My 7th great-grandfather.

Born: c. 1675 in Uppsala? (He went to school in Uppsala.)
Died: 31 December 1739

Father:  Gustaf Palm Palmfelt
Mother:  Maria Holm

Siblings:
   Catharina Palmfelt, 1681
   Gustaf Palmfelt, 1687? (This is the year his mother died.)

Step-mother:  Brita Catharina Palmqvist

Half-siblings:
   Magnus Palmfelt, 1690
   Christoffer Palmfelt, ?
   Hedvig Eleanora Palmfelt, 1693

Married: Anna Catharina Lillie, Countess, on 2 April 1707 at the King's house in Stockholm ***

Children:
   Eleanora Sofia Palmfelt, 1709
   Baby daughter died in 1716  
   Gustaf Helmer Palmfelt, 1717
   Mariana Gustavgarden Palmfelt, 1721
   Johan Lennart Palmfelt, ?

Baron Johan Palmfelt served as Governor of Alvsborg and Blekinge Provinces. He was appointed Judge at the Court of Appeals in 1709. He became the Chief Judge in Landskrona in 1718 and a Prefect of Skane the same year. In 1719, he became a Judge in Ticharads.

*** After hosting their wedding, later in 1707, Swedish King Charles (Karel) XII, who was just 24 years old, invaded Russia, in a war that he would eventually lose. I don't know, but I wonder if Johan went with him and that is the reason there is such a long time between the birth dates of the children.

*** A note of interest (at least to me): Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, who, with Peter Artedi, divided the natural world into animals, plants, and minerals and gave them Latin names,was born in the year 1707.


Anna Catharina Lillie, Countess (1677 - 1739)

Born:  1677
Died:  31 December 1739 (??? They both died on the same date?)  

Father:  Gustaf Helmer Lillie, Count
Mother:  Anna Wachtmeister, Baroness

Half-sibling:  Gustaf Gustafsson

Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen.