Fleetwood
Landed gentry
Swedish nobility
49th Baronial Family
Arms: Party per pale nebuly azure and or, six martlets, 2, 2 and 2 counterchanged[1][2]
Crest: A wolf trippant, regardant or, wounded in the shoulder, proper[3][4]
Founded1320 (1320)
FounderWilliam Fleetwood
Titles
Estate(s)Former:
WebsiteRiddarhuset, arms database

Fleetwood is an Anglo-Swedish baronial family. The lineage was introduced with number 49 in the House of Nobility, also known as the Riddarhuset.[5][6]

English origins

Genealogy chart held at the Nordic Museum

Descent and claims

The House was founded in the 14th century by William Fleetwood from whom all members descend.[7] In 1320, he married Gwlladis, only daughter and heir to Meredith, son of Canuan, son of Conan, son of Owain Gwynedd. The later, was a king of Gwynedd who reigned in 1137 to his death in November 1169 and was married to Gwladys ap Llywarch, a daughter and heir of L'Loworth.[6]

Rise to wealth

As such, the English family originates in Heskin, Lancashire, but it was of little importance until the 16th century, when Thomas Fleetwood and his three brothers moved south.[8] The eldest, John Fleetwood, a clerk of Chancery by 1535, acquired a large estate mainly in Staffordshire and Lancashire, in each of which counties he was twice high sheriff; of the two other brothers, the elder, Edmund Fleetwood, entered the Charterhouse at Sheen and the younger, Robert Fleetwood, became a Clerk of the Petty Bag and was father of William Fleetwood, Recorder of London.[9]

Family lines

A genealogy chart perused by William Segar, Garter Principal King of Arms,[10] on June 19, 1632, is kept in deposit by the Nordic Museum.[11] It depicts lineal descents and portrays the achievement of Sir George Fleetwood, Edward Fleetwood of Penwortham and Sir William Fleetwood of Misseden.

An excerpt below starting with Edward Fleetwood:

Swedish nobility

Baronial family arms

House of Nobility

Sir George was knighted 3 June 1632 by the Swedish King Gustav II Adolf;[5] created a Swedish baron 1 June 1654 at Uppsala Castle by Queen Christina,[18] and was introduced into the House of Nobility on 19 June 1654 as Baronial family No 49 with the following blazon:

[..] Quarterly with an inescutcheon with the former Fleetwood weapon; in the uppermost quarter on the left and lowest on right an upright standing lion of red color in a field argent; In the upper one on the right and the last Shield on the left a crown in gold in field azure. [..] [5]

Descendants of George Fleetwood, the Swedish general and baron, include the former member of the Swedish Parliament Elisabeth Fleetwood and painter William Fleetwood.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ (not 3 and 3 as per Burke)
  2. ↑ Memoirs of the Protectoral-house of Cromwell: Deduced from an Early Period, and Continued Down to the Present Time, Volumen 2, Page 348. Fleetwoods Arms and Crest
  3. ↑ A topographical, statistical, & historical account of the borough of Preston. By Marmaduke Tulket Page 168. Fleetwoods Arms and Crest
  4. ↑ The English Baronets: Being a Genealogical and Historical Account of Their Families by T. Wotton, 1727. nº79 - Fleetwoods Arms and Crest
  5. 1 2 3 4 Riddarhuset's arms database: Fleetwood. (in Swedish)
  6. 1 2 Adelswapen: Friherrliga ätten Fleetwood nr 49 (in Swedish)
  7. 1 2 Burke 1838, p. 522.
  8. ↑ The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham: Pedigree of Fleetwood of the Vache in Chalfont
  9. ↑ The History of Parliament: FLEETWOOD, Thomas (1517/18-70)
  10. ↑ Fletwood pedigree chart «The Genealogie,Pedegre, or Lyneall Defcent of the Ancient and worthy family & Sr name of Fletwood Shoing there Matches and Aliances into diuers Princelie and Noble Famillies with there Seurall Howses and branches. Drawne down to the perlon of the honorable Sr. George Fletwood, Knight, Colonell of an English Regement under his Maieftie of Sweden, faithsully Draune and Colected out of Athentick Bookes and venerable Recordes of this Kingdome and the Principalitie of Wales.»
  11. ↑ Fleetwood, släkt «Denne erhöll 1632 från England en vackert illustrerad stamtavla, vari släkten ledes tillbaka till 1300-talets början, men säkrare uppgifter föreligger först från 1500-talet.» (Svenskt biografiskt lexikon)
  12. 1 2 3 The Baronetage of England Vol I. Rev. William Betham (1801). pp120-123 Google Books
  13. ↑ The English Baronetage Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets ... Illustrated with Their Coats of Arms, Volumen 1, Page 195. Ref. Fleetwood of Calwiche
  14. ↑ Durston 2004
  15. ↑ The House of Commons, 1509-1558
  16. ↑ A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1911. The Manor of Heskin, footnote 14.
  17. ↑ "Fleetwood, William (FLTT675W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  18. ↑ Derby 1889, p. 266.

References

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