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Lilliestierna
Lilliestierna is a Swedish noble family and the name of an earlier extinct noble family. The first family descended from the Mayor of Stockholm Bo Bjugg whose son Jöns Bosson Bjugg was knighted in 1648. The family was introduced at the House of Lords in 1649 but ceased to exist on the male side with Jöns Bosson Bjugg himself.

The principal of the second family is Olof Persson who was a District Judge in Stockholm. His wife Christina Bjugg was the daughter to the Commanding Chief at the Royal Palace, Nils Bjugg, and it has been presumed that they were related to the first family. The son of Olof Persson and Christina Bjugg, the Secretary of the Government’s Chancery in Bremen and later the Secretary of the Royal Chancery in Stockholm, Andreas Bjugg (1631 – 1679), was knighted in September 1675 in Uppsala by King Charles XI and given the name Lilliestierna. The family was introduced at The House of Lords in 1678 under number 888. Before the decoration Lilliestierna had accomplished several services for the Crown. He is particularly praised for his efforts during Ambassador Count Schlippenbachs’ unfortunate mission with the Crown Ship ”Resande man” in November 1660. The ship that left Stockholm on the 22 November for Danzig (Poland) only made it to Landsort where it was caught by a storm and sank during the first night. Lilliestierna who was the Legation Secretary under Schlippenbach took command over the rescuing mission when both the Captain and the Count had died.

The wife of Andreas Lilliestierna was Catharina Beata Tönnek whose mother belonged to the Von Galen family. Their first son Carl Gustaf died in the Battle of the Crossing of Düna and Carl Gustaf’s only son died of the plague. The second son of Andreas, Henrik Gerhard, was the General Judge-Advocate in the army of Charles XII. Despite his position he took part in combat, was captured after the defeat in Poltava 1709 and died in a Russian prison shortly after. Before the war however he had married with Maria Elisabeth Günther with whom he got several children from which the current family descends.

The family was promoted in 1778 to the reinstated second class, the Knights Class (Riddarklassen).

The Lilliestierna family first held the entailed estate of Edö outside Askersund, which Captain Adolf Gerhard Lilliestierna exchanged in the beginning of the 1800 for Stora Ek near Mariestad in Västra Götaland.