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Gabriel Stierncrona | |
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 Portrait of Gabriel Stierncrona (1669-1723) by Olof Arenius | |
| President of the Svea Court of Appeal | |
| In office 2 September 1723 – 8 September 1723 | |
| Monarch | Frederick I |
| Preceded by | Carl Gyllenstierna |
| Succeeded by | Pehr Scheffer |
| 1st Chancellor of Justice | |
| In office 1719–1723 | |
| Monarchs | Ulrika Eleonora, Frederick I |
| Preceded by | Office created |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Fehman |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Gabriel Welt September 28, 1669 Uppsala, Sweden |
| Died | September 8, 1723 (aged 53) Stockholm, Sweden |
| Resting place | Bromma Church, Stockholm |
| Spouse | Antoinetta Maria Amya |
| Children | 7 (including Elisabeth Stierncrona and David Stierncrona) |
| Parents |
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| Education | Uppsala University |
| Occupation | Civil servant, nobleman |
Gabriel Stierncrona (born Welt; September 28 1669 – September 8 1723) was a Swedish civil servant and nobleman.
Early Life
[edit]Gabriel Welt was born in Uppsala on September 28 1669. He was born to Per Larsson Welt and Elsa Stensdotter Lindemarck. Per had served in various administrative and military roles. The Welt's were a commoner family that had German roots. All of his siblings were ennobeled, with his elder brother Lars being ennobeled Stierncrona no.1384 and his younger brother Peter being ennobeled Stierncrona af Söderby no. 1679. In 1683, Stierncrona enrolled in Uppsala University.
Legal career
[edit]Stierncrona began his legal career in 1691 as an auscultant in Svea Court of Appeal, he would leave the position in 1694 to serve as district judge of Tjust. In 1696, he then served as district judge in Sotholms, Svartlösa and Öknebo in Södertörn Domsaga.
Stierncrona was ennobeled with his brother Lars in 1699. He took the surname Stierncrona, and his descendants would be the Stierncrona no. 166 family in the House of Nobility.
In 1701, Stierncrona returned to the Svea Court of Appeal as an assessor. In 1705, Stierncrona became a member of the commission that would later draft the Civil Code of 1734. In 1712, Stierncrona had a short stint as a lawman in Närke. Within a year, he had taken up office as First Ombudsman. He was eventually promoted to Supreme Ombudsman, a position he held from 1714 until its abolition. In 1719, the office of Supreme Ombudsman was transitioned to the still extant position — Chancellor of Justice with Stierncrona being made the first holder of the office.
In 1719, after the death of Charles XII, Stierncrona participated in the deliberations that lead to the Instrument of Government (1719). Stierncrona was involved in the disputes over the class division in the nobility at the Riksdag of 1719. There, he argued for the class division to be abolished between lower and upper nobility. In the same year, he was a member of the commission that sentenced Georg Heinrich von Görtz to death in 1719.
Upon the death of Carl Gyllenstierna in 1723, the president of the Svea Court of Appeal became a vacant position. A dispute arose over who would succeed him, with the different estates proposing different candidates, among them Stierncrona was proposed. Stierncrona would end up arguing to king Frederick I that the other candidates lacked his legal experience. Stierncrona was appointed the president of the Svea Court of Appeal in 1723, a position he would not hold for long before his death.
Business career
[edit]Parallel to his legal career, Stierncrona was invested in the mill industry. In 1701, he entered an agreement with Christopher Polhem to finance the creation of Stjärnsunds manufakturverk. The manufactory produced many goods from pots and to door fittings to tools for tradesmen. In 1700, the Swedish Board of Mines issued a monopoly for the two, that would last 20 years and exempt them from customs duties and other fees.
Estates
[edit]Stierncrona's primary estate was Åkeshov Palace. However, he also owned other estates across Sweden. In addition to being Baron of Åkeshov, he was also lord of Söderby, Täckeråker, and Lilla Karby.
Personal life and death
[edit]Stierncrona married Antoinetta Maria Amya in 1708. She was the daughter of David Amya and Elisabet von Zabeland. They had 7 children, though only 3 would survive to adulthood.
- Gabriel Stierncrona (1709–1710), died in infancy.
- David Gabriel Stierncrona (1711–1711), died in infancy.
- Elisabeth Stierncrona (1714–1769), writer; m. 1729 Count Fredrik Gyllenborg.
- David Stierncrona (1715–1784), chamberlain and Baron of Åkeshov Palace; m. 1747 Baroness Agneta Wrede af Elimä.
- Maria Sofia Stierncrona (1716–1749), m. 1734 Count Henning Adolf Gyllenborg.
- Gabriel Stierncrona (1718–1719), died in infancy.
- Antoinetta Maria Stierncrona (1719–1720), died in infancy.
Stierncrona died in Stockholm on 8 September 1723 at the age of 53. He is buried at Bromma Church, where he had commissioned the construction of a new chancel that served as the Stierncrona family burial chapel.