STUART, JOHAN ADOLF [SSNE 3626]

Surname: STUART
First name: JOHAN ADOLF
Title/rank: COLONEL
Nationality: SCOT
Social status: OFFICER

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Johan Adolf Stuart became a captain in Swedish service in 1628. He was a son of Anders Stuart the elder [SSNE 1646] and Elisabet Anrep. Stuart served Johan Casimir in the 1650s, became a lieutenant colonel and a commandant at Johannisborg castle and died in 1666.

He had been married to Anna Stuart [SSNE 6432], his cousin, and daughter of Colonel Hans Stuart [SSNE 1645]. If the diary of Governor Johan Rosenhane is correct he was also married to Anna von der Knop (or that was Anna Stuart's widowed name?). Johan Adolf Stuart appears to have been a fairly close acquaintance of Rosenhane's, frequently attending the governor's home for evening meals - 1 December 1655, 27 March and 16 April 1656 accompanied by Johan Anders Gladstone [SSNE 4783], 5 August 1656, 4 April 1657, 29 June 1658, 19 September 1659. Rosenhane also mediated in a drawn-out legal dispute between Stuart and Esaias von Hollen, in which Stuart offered compensation of 4,000 riksdaler, finally settled on 4 December 1657. On 31 January 1656 Johan Adolf Stuart accompanied the Governor (and his wife?) to the local pastor's home for a meal. On 6-7 February 1656 Johan Adolf Stuart joined Rosenhane and his wife at the home of Sophia Stenbock, including an overnight stay.

In 1652 he signed documents concerning his relative David Stuart [SSNE 3112].

Sources:

Riksarkivets ämnessamlingar. Personhistoria https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0073910_00009#?c=&m=&s=&cv=8&xywh=3126%2C1857%2C3063%2C1679

Co-signed letter with his wife: https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0073910_00019#?c=&m=&s=&cv=18&xywh=-196%2C1603%2C5290%2C2901

https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0073910_00185#?c=&m=&s=&cv=184&xywh=1134%2C912%2C4931%2C2703

https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0073910_00218#?c=&m=&s=&cv=217&xywh=67%2C1161%2C4101%2C2249

Stockholm Krigsarkiv, Muster Roll, 1626/1,2; 1627/1,7-9; 1628/1,12,14,15; 1629/5-8; 1630/2,7,8; 1631/5,22,23,25,26; 1632/22; 1633/7; 1634/6; Swedish Riksarkiv, Pergamentsbreven och Johan Casimirs Arkiv in Stegeborgssamlingen, 2 letters c. 1652; Svenska Adelns Ättartavlor, vol. 7, p.793; Johan Rosenhanes Dagbok 1652-1661 , ed Arne Jansson (Stockholm, 1995), pp. 161, 166, 169, 171, 181, 196, 197, 199, 218, 219, 235, 264.

Service record

SWEDEN, OSTGOTA INFANTRY: Arrived 1626-01-01, as ENSIGN; Departed 1634-12-31, as CAPTAIN; Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
SWEDEN, JOHANNISBORG: Arrived 1635-01-01, as LT. COLONEL; Departed 1666-12-31, as COLONEL; Capacity COMMANDANT, purpose MILITARY