Lagergren
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Papal chamberlain
Papal chamberlain was one of the highest honours that could be bestowed on a Catholic layman by the Pope, and was often given to members of noble families. It was mostly an honorary position, but a chamberlain served the Pope for one week per year during official ceremonies...
in 1884, serving under Pope Leo XIII
Pope Leo XIII
Pope Leo XIII , born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci to an Italian comital family, was the 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, reigning from 1878 to 1903...
, Pope Pius X
Pope Pius X
Pope Saint Pius X , born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, was the 257th Pope of the Catholic Church, serving from 1903 to 1914. He was the first pope since Pope Pius V to be canonized. Pius X rejected modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine, promoting traditional devotional practices and orthodox...
, Pope Benedict XV
Pope Benedict XV
Pope Benedict XV , born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa, reigned as Pope from 3 September 1914 to 22 January 1922...
, and Pope Pius XI
Pope Pius XI
Pope Pius XI , born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, was Pope from 6 February 1922, and sovereign of Vatican City from its creation as an independent state on 11 February 1929 until his death on 10 February 1939...
. He was conferred the hereditary title of Marquis
Marquis
Marquis is a French and Scottish title of nobility. The English equivalent is Marquess, while in German, it is Markgraf.It may also refer to:Persons:...
of Lagergren by Pope Leo XIII in 1889. The title is inherited according to extended agnatic primogeniture
Primogeniture
Primogeniture is the right, by law or custom, of the firstborn to inherit the entire estate, to the exclusion of younger siblings . Historically, the term implied male primogeniture, to the exclusion of females...
, meaning that title is held by both the senior male line descendant and the next in line (typically his eldest son) simultaneously. Claes Lagergren married Caroline Alice Maria Beatrice Claudia Russell (1854–1919), a wealthy American citizen he met in Rome, on 6 May 1891, and had three sons:
- Claes Leo Alexander Carl Erik Johan Axel Claesson Lagergren (1892-1961), Marquis (from 1892), papal chamberlain
- Leo Johan Arthur Louis Josef Gustaf Howland Claesson Lagergren (1898-1975), Count (from 1904), papal chamberlain
- Leo Carl Gustaf Paul Johan Dionysius Claesson Lagergren (1899-1931), Count (from 1904), Lieutenant
In 1904, the younger sons Johan and Carl were both conferred the hereditary title of Count of Lagergren by Pope Pius X. The two comital titles are inherited according to normal agnatic primogeniture
Primogeniture
Primogeniture is the right, by law or custom, of the firstborn to inherit the entire estate, to the exclusion of younger siblings . Historically, the term implied male primogeniture, to the exclusion of females...
, meaning that the titles are held by the senior male line descendant of each of them. The titles were legally recognized by Italy 1929–1948, and remain legally recognized by the Holy See. In Sweden, the family is considered part of the unintroduced nobility, being one of very few families to hold a rank above Count and the only Swedish-origined family ever to hold the title of Marquis. For many decades, the Lagergren family and the likewise unintroduced (Napoleonic) D'Otrante ducal family
Duke of Otranto
.Duke of Otranto is a hereditary title in the Nobility of the First French Empire which was bestowed in 1808 by Napoleon Bonaparte upon the statesman and Minister of Police Joseph Fouché , who had been made a Count of the French Empire before....
were the only non-royal families in Sweden to hold a rank above Count.
Claes Lagergren was part of the circle around King Oscar II of Sweden
Oscar II of Sweden
Oscar II , baptised Oscar Fredrik was King of Sweden from 1872 until his death and King of Norway from 1872 until 1905. The third son of King Oscar I of Sweden and Josephine of Leuchtenberg, he was a descendant of Gustav I of Sweden through his mother.-Early life:At his birth in Stockholm, Oscar...
, and had good connections to Catholic conservative elite circles in Rome. His wife's inheritance made it possible for him to buy Tyresö Palace in 1892, which he rebuilt inspired by original drawings from the 17th century in a national romantic style. In 1922, three years after the death of his first wife, he married Mary Moore Ogden (born 1856), who was also a wealthy American heiress and whose funds made it possible for him to rebuild the castle. Following his wish, his widow left the estate to the Nordic Museum
Nordic Museum
The Nordic Museum is a museum located on Djurgården, an island in central Stockholm, Sweden, dedicated to the cultural history and ethnography of Sweden from the Early Modern age until the contemporary period...
.
The ancestors of Claes Lagergreen in the 18th and 19th centuries were parish priests, landowners, and surveyors.
Marquis of Lagergren
- Claes Eric Philip Frans Joseph Leo Lagergren (1853–1930), Marquis 1889–1930
- Claes Leo Alexander Carl Erik Johan Axel Claesson Lagergren (1892–1961), Marquis 1892–1961
- Claes Lagergren (born 1940), Marquis since 1940
- Claes Lagergren (born 1960), Marquis since 1961
- Heir apparentHeir apparentAn heir apparent or heiress apparent is a person who is first in line of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting, except by a change in the rules of succession....
: Claes Lagergren (born 1992)
Counts of Lagergren
Johan Lagergren (1898–1975), elevated to the hereditary rank of Count in 1904, was the father of Gustaf-Erik Lagergren (born 1932), who became Count upon the death of his father in 1975. The heir apparentHeir apparent
An heir apparent or heiress apparent is a person who is first in line of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting, except by a change in the rules of succession....
is Carl Lagergren (born 1960).
Carl Lagergren (1899–1931), elevated to the hereditary rank of Count in 1904, did not have male line descendants.
Literature
- Lagergren, C, Mitt livs Minnen, 1-9 (memoarverk för perioden fram till 1888), 1922-1930.
- Lagergren, C, Kronor av guld och törne, 1923.
- Lagergren, C, En vinter på Nilen, 1888.
- Lagergren, C, Mot resans slut (Efterlämnade dagboksanteckningar 1888-1906) del 1, 1940.
- Lagergren, C, Mot resans slut (Efterlämnade dagboksanteckningar 1907-1930) del 2, 1953.