Vilhelmina Eleonora Coyet

Swedish noble
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroSwedish noble
A.K.A.Wilhelmina Eleonora Coyet
A.K.A.Wilhelmina Eleonora Coyet
PlacesSweden
wasNoble
Work fieldRoyals
Gender
Female
Birth22 May 1719, Skurup Municipality, Sweden
Death1 April 1778Slimminge, Sweden (aged 58 years)
Star signGemini
Family
Spouse:Rutger Macklean 2nd Friherre
Children:Rutger Macklean 4th Friherre David Julius Macklier 3rd Friherre
The details

Biography

Friherre Rutger Maclean I (1688–1748) or Rutger Macklean I was an officer of Charles XII of Sweden who participated in Battle of Holowczyn, Battle of Poltava and Battle of Tobolsk in the Great Northern War.

Biography

He was the son of David Makeléer, the first governor of Älvsborg County in Sweden. He studied in England. He married Vilhelmina Eleonora Coyet, who was 30 years younger than him, and they had at least four children:

  • Baron David Macklean
  • Rutger Macklean II (1742–1816) who was a central figure in land reform in Sweden in the late 18th and early 19th centuries
  • Eleonora Charlotta Macklean (1744–1777) born on 12 June 1744 in Svaneholm
  • Gustaf Macklean, when Gustav III of Sweden was murdered, Gustaf hid one of the murderers at his farm Brodda, nearby Svaneholm.

Ancestors

Rutger MacklierFather:
David Makeléer
Paternal Grandfather:
John Hans Makeléer
Paternal Great-Grandfather:
Hector Og Maclean, 15th Clan Chief
Paternal Great-grandmother:
Isabella Acheson of Gosford, the daughter of Sir Archibald Acheson, 1st Baronet
Paternal Grandmother:
Anna Gubbertz
Paternal Great-Grandfather:
Paternal Great-Grandmother:
Mother:
Eleonora Elisabet von Ascheberg
Maternal Grandfather:
Rutger von Ascheberg
Maternal Great-Grandfather:
Maternal Great-Grandmother:
Maternal Grandmother:
Magdalena Eleonora von Bussech
Maternal Great-grandfather:
Maternal Great-Grandmother:
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