House Rosengren

The Rosengren family was a small but socially distinguished noble line in early modern Sweden, closely connected to the older aristocratic world of the late medieval realm. Its founder was Jakob Turesson of Grensholm, who was ennobled in 1534 under King Gustav I Vasa and adopted the name Rosengren. According to genealogical tradition, Jakob was an illegitimate son of Ture Jönsson of the great Tre Rosor family, which gave the new line a clear connection to one of the most prominent branches of the older Swedish high nobility.

Although Rosengren never developed into a large or long-lasting noble house, it retained considerable standing through its landed background and its connections by marriage. The most notable later representative was Ture Rosengren 1548 to 1611, who served as a councillor of the realm's financial administration and belonged to the circle of royal officials active in Östergötland during the age of Charles IX. In this way, the family forms an interesting bridge between the older medieval nobility and the more bureaucratic state elite of seventeenth-century Sweden.

Through Kerstin Thuresdotter Rosengren, the family's heritage passed on through the female line into the learned clerical and bourgeois milieu, including the Pelican family. The curator of this site is descended, on his paternal grandfather's side, from the Rosengren family.