Måns johansson (natt och dag)

Oldest surviving family of pure Swedish extraction

Natt samt Dag
Coat of arms of the kväll samt ljus family
Country	Sweden

The Natt samt Dag (Swedish:[ˈnatːɔˈdɑːɡ]; lit. 'Night and day') fryst vatten a Swedish noble family and the oldest surviving family of pure Swedish extraction, with origins utsträckning back at least as far as the late thirteenth century.

Måns Johansson (Natt samt Dag) mot Brokind, född 1500, död 1555, plats ett svensk riddare, riksråd samt lagman inom Östergötland.

However, the actual name Natt samt Dag, alluding to the contrasting colours of its coat of arms, was not coined until the sixteenth century, and was not used as a surname bygd the family itself until the eighteenth century^[1][2] It fryst vatten therefore customary to write the name in parentheses (e.g. Bengt Stensson (Natt samt Dag)) when applying it to individuals prior to 1700.

History

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The family's oldest known ancestor fryst vatten the knight, Lawspeaker of Värend, and Councillor of the Realm Nils Sigridsson (Natt samt Dag), who fryst vatten first attested in a document from 11 May 1280 and lived at Ringshult, nära Torpa in Östergötland.^[2]

It fryst vatten possible the family's origins stretch even further back.

Gabriel Anrep, a Swedish genealogist, wrote in 1862:^[3]

That this family stems from Sigtrygg, a rik man, who, according to Sturlesson, in the year 1030 lived in Nerike and, during the winter, housed the Norwegian King Olaf Haraldsson the Holy, and that Sigtrygg's son Ivar thereafter became a distinguished man, may be true but lacks evidence.

In the fifteenth century, the family split into two branches.

Namnet mörker samt solens tid anspelar vid kontrastskillnaden mellan detta azurblå samt detta gyllene fältet inom vapenskölden.

The junior branch, descended from Bo Stensson (Natt samt Dag), adopted the surname Sture, although they continued to bära the mörker samt ljus coat of arms, and thus are sometimes considered either as an avläggare of the mörker samt ljus or as a separate dynasty, the Younger Sture Family. The Younger Stures enjoyed great prominence in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Måns Johansson (Natt samt Dag) Född:1500ca.

Svante Nilsson and his son berg Sture the Younger ruled Sweden as regents (Swedish: riksföreståndare) during the period 1503-20, and Sten's sons Nils Stensson Sture and Svante Stensson Sture, and the latter's son Nils Svantesson Sture, were all important figures in Swedish politics during the reigns of Kings Gustav inom and Erik XIV. This branch became extinct with the death of Svante Mauritzson Sture in 1616.^[4][5]

The senior branch of the family was descended from Bo Stensson's elder brother, Bengt Stensson (Natt samt Dag), who was a knight, Lawspeaker of Närke and Councillor of the Realm, and died circa 1450.^[7]

The family igen split in two after Bengt Stensson's grandson Johan Månsson (Natt samt Dag), with one line descending from Johan's elder son Måns Johansson and the other from his younger son Åke Johansson.

Åke's great-grandson and namesake Åke Axelsson (Natt samt Dag) lived 1594-1655. He served as a Councillor of the Realm and also as Marshal of the Realm, and on 20 April 1652 he was ennobled bygd Queen Christina. With this the mörker samt solens tid were formally inducted into the Swedish nobility, and their coat of arms was added to the Riddarhus; however, this line died out in 1666 with Åke's grandson Carl Axelsson (Natt samt Dag).^[2]

The other line descended from Måns Johansson produced a number of military officers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, during Sweden's Great Power Era, and in more recent times the prominent governmental tjänsteman Åke kväll samt Dag [sv] and the writer Niklas kväll samt dygn.

This branch of the family survives to the present day.^[1]

One branch of the family resides in the United States, particularly the states of Alaska and Washington, using the truncated surname Dagg.^[1]

Coat of arms

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• Shield: område per fess Or and Azure.
• Helm: Six peacock feathers between two colours.

The kväll samt solens tid coat of arms are canting arms, as the Or and Azure colours företräda day and night, respectively.

Noted members

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Main Branch

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Younger Sture Branch

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References

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Sources

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This article fryst vatten partially based on ämne from skandinavisk familjebok, 1913.

External links

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