Talk:Ferdinand von Wrangel

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ferdinand von Wrangel is within the scope of the Russian History WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Russian History. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.	Biography Portal
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the Project's quality scale. Please rate the article and then leave a short summary here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article. [FAQ]

The Wrangel noble family is of (Baltic) German origin and they first arrived in medieval Livonia during the Northern Crusades in the early 1200s. Their earliest known ancestor was one Henricus de Wrangele who, as of 1277, was a vassal to the Bishop of Riga. One of the several branches of the Wrangel family was later (in 1770s) immatriculated in Sweden. Notably, by then Sweden had already lost possession of its Baltic provinces, and Ferdinand von Wrangel was not a member of this Swedish branch of the family. He was born a Baltic German, and into the original Baltic German Wrangel noble family (not into the Swedish branch). Cheers, --3 Löwi 16:43, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

One source, The Swedish House of Knights (Riddarhuset, the corporation of the Swedish nobility) mentions on its website:

http://www.riddarhuset.se/jsp/index.jsp?id=553&state=2&postId=588

ätten Wrangel

Ingress Tysk-baltisk adelsätt, som sannolikt inkommit till Livland med Svärdsriddarorden eller Tyska Orden och som utgrenats till Sverige, Ryssland, Tyskland, Österrike och Nederländerna. Tidigast kände företrädare för ätten är riddaren Henricus de Wrangele, som 1277 var vasall under biskopen av Riga. Kungl danska rådet Thidericus (Tile) Wrangele (känd 1342) är stamfader för i Sverige levande och utslocknade ätter av den stora släkten. Adliga ätten Wrangel, nr 2092, naturaliserades 1772 13/9 med kaptenen, sedermera majoren Johan Gustaf Wrangel (1723–1787) och tre bröder till denne. Introduktionen skedde 1776 9/6.