House Lilliehorn

The Swedish noble name Lilliehorn is one of the three key "sister connections" through which the Vachell-derived line entered multiple introduced houses at the Riddarhuset. In this case, Dorotea Leijoncrona married Captain Peter Berg (1688–1753), who was ennobled in 1719 with the name Lilliehorn and introduced at the Riddarhuset in 1720 under no. 1671D.

The family's background is associated with Blekinge and the naval–military milieu of Karlskrona. Swedish reference works trace the origin to the bourgeois-merchant environment in which Per Jönsson Berg is presented as an early figure, while the ennoblement itself reflects the early eighteenth-century pattern whereby state and military service could be recognised by formal elevation into the introduced nobility.

Importantly, Lilliehorn did not remain solely an untitled noble house. A later branch was raised within the Swedish nobility: first to the "kommendör" rank in 1790, and subsequently elevated to the baronial dignity (friherrlig värdighet) in 1800. That baronial branch was introduced in 1801 under no. 318. Both the commendarial and the baronial lines later became extinct in Sweden, but the Lilliehorn connection remains genealogically significant here because it anchors one of the documented Swedish noble marriages descending from Françoise Vachell of Coley Park.

Further Reading:

• Riddarhuset (MINERVA): Lilliehorn (no. 1671D); Lilliehorn (no. 318).
• Elgenstierna, Gustaf (ed.). Den introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor.
• Adelsvapen-Wiki: Lilliehorn (no. 1671) and Lilliehorn (no. 318).