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Name
  
Rutger Macklier

Parents
  
David Makeleer

Died
  
1748

Children
  
Rutger Macklean

Rutger Macklier
Grandparents
  
Sir John Maclean, 1st Baronet

Great-grandparents
  
Sir Hector Og Maclean, 15th Chief, Hector MacLean of Dowart

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.

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Biography

He was the son of David Makeleer, the first governor of Alvsborg 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

    References

    Rutger Macklier Wikipedia
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