Talk:List of Swedish noble families

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This is a fine page but (a) it's almost totally unsorted and (b) these should not be links. Can someone who knows how to make many of the same changes with some for of find and replace program remove the links and then we can ask people to add brackets only to those that exist or that really should? I think it would actually be better if the article had no links at all than have all these red links. Avraham 03:33, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Actually, the list is in order (explained in the lead). And I see no big problem with the red links. Several hundreds of these families are notable enough to get an article eventually, or at least a redirect to some other article. I think it is better to wait with a delinking project until the coverage of Swedish history is at least half-decent. u p p l a n d 04:51, 2 April 2006 (UTC)


[edit] List of Living Swedish noble families

Text below comes from List of Living Swedish noble families which I have redirected to this one. That list was incomplete (included only the counts) and seems unnecessary. From the POV of Wikipedia, the historical sigificance of a family is of interest, not whether there are some obscure members living at the moment. It will also date as families die out, and is inlikely to be updated. The creation years of the titles may however be useful for this list. u p p l a n d 04:51, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

This is a list of living families in the Swedish nobility.

[edit] Counts

  • Lewenhaupt, #2 : Created 1568
  • De la Gardie, #3 : Created 1615
  • Oxenstierna af Korsholm och Wasa, #8 : Created 1651
  • Stenbock, #12 : Created 1651
  • Douglas, #19 : Created 1654 -- a branch of a Scottish noble family[1]
  • Schlippenbach, #20 : Created 1654
  • Wachtmeister af Johannishus, #25 : Created 1687
  • Bielke, #29 : Created 1687
  • Gyldenstolpe, #35 : Created 1690
  • Bonde af Björnö, #41 : Created 1695
  • Mellin, #43 : Created 1696
  • Piper, #46 : Created 1698
  • Frölich, #49 : Created 1706
  • Posse, #51 : Created 1706
  • Nieroth, #52 : Created 1706
  • Spens, #54 : Created 1712
  • Mörner af Morlanda, #60 : Created 1716
  • Sparre af Söfdeborg, #66 : Created 1719
  • Creutz, #68 : Created 1719
  • Cronhielm af Hakunge, #69 : Created 1719
  • Barck, #81 : Created 1731
  • Cronstedt, #83 : Created 1731
  • von Rosen, #85 : Created 1751
  • Hamilton, #86 : Created 1751 -- a branch of a Scottish noble family[2]
  • von Seth, #88 : Created 1762
  • Kalling, #91 : Created 1771
  • Horn af Åminne, #92 : Created 1772
  • Wrangel af Sauss, #93 : Created 1751
  • von Schwerin, #94 : Created 1766
  • Falkenberg af Bålby, #97 : Created 1778
  • Wrangel, #99 : Created 1778
  • Stackelberg, #100 : Created 1763
  • Beck-Friis, #104 : Created 1771. Only the head of the family is a count, other members are barons (baron family #278).
  • af Ugglas, #105 : Created 1799. Only the head of the family and his heirs are counts, other members are barons (baron family #311).
  • Strömfelt, #106 : Created 1799. Only the head of the family and his heirs are counts, other members are barons (baron family #105).
  • Klingspor, #107 : Created 1799. Only the head of the family and his heirs are counts, other members are barons (baron family #257).
  • Taube, #112 : Created 1734
  • Ehrensvärd, #113 : Created 1771
  • Thott, #114 : Created 1807. Only the head of the family and his heirs are counts, other members are barons (baron family #301).
  • Lagerbjelke, #115 : Created 1809. Only the head of the family is a count, other members are barons (baron family #254).
  • von Stedingk, #117 : Created 1809. Only the head of the family is a count, other members are barons (baron family #316).
  • Ridderstolpe, #119 : Created 1800. Only the head of the family and his heirs are counts, other members are barons (baron family #228).
  • Liljencrantz, #120 : Created 1812. Only the head of the family is a count, other members are barons (baron family #297).
  • von Engeström, #121 : Created 1814. Only the head of the family is a count, other members are nobles (commander family #1948A).
  • Adlercreutz, #125 : Created 1814. Only the head of the family is a count, other members are barons (baron family #331).
  • Barnekow, #128 : Created 1816. Only the head of the family is a count, other members are barons (baron family #230).
  • Cederström, #135 : Created 1819. Only the head of the family is a count, other members are barons (baron family #211).
  • Björnstjerna, #140 : Created 1826. Only the head of the family is a count, other members are nobles (noble family #2017).
  • von Saltza, #142 : Created 1843. Only the head of the family is a count, other members are barons (baron family #260).

[edit] Medieval

You who have Swedish biographic handelslexicons and so forth at your use, when putting new articles, could start with noble families from which Carl XVI Gustaf descends, see an ancestry listing I write to Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. ObRoy 18:51, 1 June 2006 (UTC)