Grunt Gustav Helmer Lillie (1639 - 1684)

My eighth great-grandfather.

Born:  9 August 1639 at Stralsund, Sweden
Died:  29 September 1684 at Schlesien, Prussia (now Poland, but may have been part of Sweden then)

Father:  Axel Gustafsson Lillie
Mother:  Christina von Morner

Siblings:
   Catharina Lillie, 1633
   Erik Axelsson Lillie, 1634
   Axel Axelsson Lillie, 1637
   Leonard Axelsson Lillie, 1642

Married: Anna Wachtmeister on 25 October 1663 in Bjorko, Sweden

Children:
   Gustaf Gustafsson, 1672 (his mother was Juliana von Hessen-Eschwege)
   Anna Catharina Lillie, 1677

I found some information in Swedish at the following:
   Adelsvapen
   Swedish Wikipedia


Anna Wachtmeister af Bjorko, Baroness  (1645 - ?)

Born:  c.1645 in Stockholm,Sweden
Died:  ?

Father:  Hans Wachtmeister
Mother:  Agnes Margareta von Helmstedt

Siblings:
   Eva Juliana Wachtmeister, 1639
   Hans Wachtmeister, 1641 (Admiral and General)
   Adam Claes Hansson Wachtmeister, 1642
   Axel Wachtmeister, 1643
   Bleckert Wachtmeister, 1644
   Fritz Wachtmeister,, 1646
   Gustaf Hansson Wachtmeister, 1647
   Agnes Margareta Hansdotter Wachtmeister, 1651
   Carl Hansson Wachtmeister, 1653
   (and maybe one more?)
 
 Anna is the person that started all of my interest in genealogy. In 1984, we had just gotten a satellite dish, and one of the TV shows that we watched was called "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous."  One day, they profiled the Swedish Ambassador to the United States. His name was Count Wilhelm Hans Fredrik Wachtmeister.  I recognized the last name, and not really expecting any response, I wrote him a letter suggesting that we might be distantly related.  The following was his response. What a generous person to take the time to research and answer my letter! I wish he was still alive so I could send him photos of all the notebooks full of genealogy stuff I have now, all because of his letter.