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Six Noble Ladies at Bråhult a Word from Our President the Sabelskjöld Ordförande: Rolf Svensson, Skålsvampv 3, 611 63 Nyköping Textbearbetning och layout: Tel: 0155-268 454, [email protected] Annica Triberg Ord ledamöter: Birger Bring, Oskarhamn Tel: 0705-611 407 Tel: 0491-730 21, [email protected] E-post: [email protected] Peder Nilsson, Kristdala Tel: 0491-711 21, [email protected] Thina Rydell Weronicha Svaleng, Högsby Tel: 0733-544 569 Tel: 0491-766 165, [email protected] E-post: [email protected] Staffan Svensson, Oskarshamn Tel: 0491-845 05, [email protected] Har du förslag eller åsikter om innehållet? Suppleanter: Anna-Lena Hagsell, Nyköping Vill du skriva en rad eller två? Hör av dig! Tel: 0155-287 879, [email protected] Annica Triberg, Kalmar Kom ihåg att meddela oss ev adressändring! 2011 Thina Rydell, Kalmar Sture Karlsson, Kristdala In this issue of Sabelskjöldarn we tell you some legends. Tel: 0491-701 17, [email protected] The candlesticks in Blacksta Over the years all sorts of stories and legends have been told Last fall we visited Julita farm in Sörmland not far from the A word from Revisorer: Gerd Ireman, Oskarshamn tel: 0491-165 33 about the Sabelskjöld family. What is true and what is just an town of Katrineholm. It was at Julita Jöns Mårtensson and Christer Andersson, Hultsfred tel: 0491-740 35 our president unverified story is not easy to know. The most famous story in Brita Larsdotter married in 1587 and it was also at Julita farm Valberedning: Karin Larsson, Kalmar (sammankallande) the family is about Elisabet Sabelskjöld born Duraeus (wife of Jöns was sheriff and later became castellan at Nyköpings hus. Tel: 0480-296 25, [email protected] Karl Sabelskjöld junior) at the Bråhult manor. She regarded it We looked around the yard - a place well worth a visit - but Boel Krüger, Mönsterås, unthinkable that the Sabelskjölds being so wealthy, should ever unfortunately we were too late for a guided tour so we couldn’t Tel: 0499-120 52, [email protected] become poor. Elizabeth was so sure that she took her wedding get into the main building. Ann-Marie Andersson, Kalmar At the annual meeting in Kalmar in August 2010 a sug- ring from her finger and threw it in nearby lake Bråhultsjön de- Tel: 0480-470 616, [email protected] gestion had been put forward regarding shorter terms of of- claring ”The likelihood for us becoming poor is no more than Hans Nilsson, Trelleborg Instead we visited the small church called Skansenkyrkan.. fice for board members. There have been no changes in this me getting this ring back”. Sure enough, a fisherman caught a 0410-180 18, [email protected] There at the altar were two beautiful candlesticks which, at first respect since the association was founded in 1967. Karin Lars- pike in the lake. When he opened the fish he found a ring with glance, looked very much like Carl and Ingeborg’s candlesticks son and Thina Rydell, who submitted the suggestion, pointed a name engraved. He returned the ring to Elizabeth. True or The Sabelskjöld wedding Blacksta church. Because we visited the church alone, there was out that a term of six years is too long. Today travelling is not – the fact is that Elizabeth and her daughters after Carl’s crown no one who could answer our questions. After returning home easier than what it was in the sixties so cost and time for at- death got into a very difficult financial situation and needed help I contacted the one of the guides at Julita farm. I told him tending annual meetings or board meetings need no to be an in various ways. The crown which is administered by the association is commonly about the marriage between Jöns and Brita at Julita and about obstacle today. The proposed change should also make it easi- called the Sabelskjöld wedding crown. In 1970 Sabelskjöld descen- the candlesticks, in Blacksta church that we always believed to er to find people willing to accept a position on the board. The As we know, a story like that almost certainly gets distorted dants made the crown available with the intention that it should be be unique in their design. Now I Learned that Jöns and Brita’s proposal is to shorten the term for board members from six to after being told a couple of times. How much truth there is we used for weddings within the family. The association manages the wedding did not take place in Skansenkyrkan at Julita because four years. This doesn’t necessarily mean that members of the will never know, but what we do know is that Elizabeth died at crown but does not own it. board will be “shorter lived” just that one doesn’t have to com- Bråhult in poverty. A more detailed description of the Sabel- Where the crown originally came from is a mystery. Despite the mit oneself to more than four years on the board. The annual skjöld family and their life at Bråhult can be read in the book, ” name Sabelskjöld crown it can not be proven that the crown ever meeting voted in favor of the new proposal with a change of Om ätten Sabelsköld och livdragonen Carl Sabelskölds avkom- belonged to the Sabelskjöld family. It is true that the crown has has the charter text as a result. lingarn ”. been owned in the family for many generations, and hence been re- Rolf Svensson, President garded as a family treasure, but written evidence about the Crown’s earliest history is missing. For a long time the first known document As we know Carl died, during Karl XII’s campaign in the about the crown is a inventory from 1782 issued at Sörebo, Mör- Baltics in 1700 or 1701, and left wife Elizabeth alone with six lunda parish. In the inventory after Marta Olofsdotter a wedding Six noble ladies at Bråhult crown worth 13 daler and 16 shillings is listed. Marta’s mother in daughters, the oldest only 14 years old. Elizabeth’s economic When Carl Sabelskjöld and Elizabeth Duraeus were married in situation became very difficult, and in reality she lost Bråhult law was Martha Sabelskjöld - one of the six ladies at Bråhult - so the the 1680’s no one could forsee that it was the last time a male simple conclusion was that the crown belonged to the Sabelskjöld. even if she was allowed to remain on the farm with her daugh- member of the Sabelskjöld family stood groom. Even if the ters. Sven Bankeström has shown that this theory can not be cor- marriage isn’t listed in church records, we can almost certainly The six maidens at Bråhult were: Christina, Ingeborg, rect1. Marta Olofsdotter was married twice and the crown is listed believe that it was held in Kristdala - the bride was a Kristdala Märta, Anna Maria, Margareta, Elisabet. Under normal circum- already in the inventory after her first husband, who was not mem- girl and the pastor’s daughter. Her father was Bartholdus Du- stances, the Sabelskjöld girls would have married noblemen, ber of Sabelskjöld family.This does not mean that the Crown could raeus born and raised in Kristdala and since 1658 rector of the but as the situation now was, the economy didn’t allow such not have belonged to the Sabelskjölds. Bankeström finds, on the Kristdala church. arrangements. Instead, all the ladies married farmer boys from contrary, good arguments that this may have been the case. Nord- the region. This was probably seen as a dishonour at the time, iska Museet has, examined the crown and found that it originates Carl was Sabelskjöld in the third generation and had at times but for us latter-day Sabelskjölds it was perhaps a fortunate de- from the period 1662 – 1700, made in Vimmerby by goldsmith that church was built in 1936. However, the altar is a copy of lived on the farm Bråhult in Kristdala in his childhood. From Hans Persson Bergman. Since 1660s was Sabelskjölds heydays one velopment. The name Sabelskjöld disappeared but the family is the altar in the old Julita church. Most likely the wedding took the mid-1690s moved Carl and Elizabeth to Bråhult for good. still remaining, and many of us can trace our roots back to one can well imagine that the crown was bought by Jöns Sabelskjöld place in Julita old church, the oldest parts of which goes back Seven children were born in the marriage. Six of them reached for his wedding - he was married twice - or for one of his daugh- of the noble ladies. Five of the sisters still have descendants to the 1200s. Candlesticks similar to those in Blacksta was ap- adulthood. What happened to the seventh child is unclear. It ters, he had five. The fact that the crown then came outside the today, many of whom still live in eastern Småland. parently common at that time. Although slightly disappointed family is perhaps not surprising. The crown, represents of course probably died, infant mortality was high also in noble families. Although most members of our association are descend- a considerable value,so it could have been used as payment be- with the outcome of the conversation, I concluded that the Carl was the last male in the Sabelskjöld family and expectations ants of one of the ladies at Bråhult it should be pointed out, tween siblings and thus come to side branches within the family. candlesticks in Blacksta after all is a part of our history and as that he would carry the Sabelskjöld name on through sons must that there are also descendants of previous generations.
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