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78 [Doc. 8.
SWEDENBORG’S ANCESTRY.
The father-in -law of Secretary Norn had a genealogical register
of his family, in which our name occurred. It would be well
if you could get a copy of that document. When I was
young I heard that the Swinhufwuds, with a white boar’s
head as their crest, had the same origin as our family. Of
it I know there is no survivor but Colonel Swijnhufwud of
the Jemtlanders. His father had been the colonel of that
regiment. The Swinhufwuds with a black boar’s-head, are a
different family altogether, and came from Bohemia. Bishop
Otto in Westerås, who died in the year 1520, had several
brothers, and I believe our family descends from one of them .
The Swinhufwuds, with the white boar’s -head, also descend
from one of these brothers. I think that with proper dili
gence we would find ourselves in the same family with Engel
brecht,* since he also was from Sundborn.
With regard to our mother’s family I cannot name any
one before Isac Behm, who was employed by Charles IX +
as admiral, and in other capacities; for this reason he was
mentioned in King Charles "slaughter-bench ” (släktàre bänk).
Messenius mentions him twice in his Scondia illustrata, but
describes him as having been very cruel. This historian relates
that after the battle of Stångbro,f when he commanded by
sea, he ill-treated some Jesuits, whom he had made prisoners ;
about 1640, this Ludvig Otto could not have been the Otto near Sund.
born, who, according to Document 7, was the great-grandfather of Daniel
Isaakson, and who must have been born between 1530 and 1550. And if,
according to Peter Schönström , that Otto was a brother of Bishop Otto
of Westerås, who died in 1520, he must have been born before the year
1500 .
* Engelbrecht was a noble mountaineer, under whose leadership the
greater part of Sweden was delivered from the Danish yoke, in 1434.
In 1436 he was assassinated, after having secured the independence of his
country.
+ Charles IX , the youngest son of Gustavus Wasa, after deposing his
nephew Sigismund, ascended the throne of Sweden in 1600. He punished
severely the Catholic adherents of Sigismund, and executed many of the
nobles at Linköping. He has the reputation of having been the ablest of
the sons of Gustavus Wasa. He was the father of Gustavus Adolphus.
# This battle took place near Linköping in 1598; in which king Sigis
mund was defeated by his uncle Charles IX .
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