Wrangel
Swedish, Baltic German, Russian, Spanish and Prussian noble family
Coat of arms for count Wrangel
Place of originMedieval Livonia
FounderEilardus (1241†)
Cadet branches
List
  • Wrangel af Adinal
  • Wrangel af Ellistfer
  • Wrangel af Fall
  • Wrangel af Salmis
Coat of arms of the Wrangel family

The House of Wrangel (sometimes transliterated as Wrangell or Vrangel, from the Russian Вра́нгель) is a Baltic German noble family,[1] whose members have also been included in Swedish, Russian, Spanish and Prussian nobility. The family's earliest known patrilineal ancestor is the knight Eilardus (1241†).

Notable members

  • Herman Wrangel (ca.1584-1643), a Swedish Governor-General of Livonia, Field Marshal, and Privy Councillor
  • Carl Henrik Wrangel (1681–1755), a Swedish Field Marshal
  • Carl Gustaf Wrangel (1613–1676), a Swedish soldier and Privy Councillor (son of Herman Wrangel)
  • Heinrich Johann Freiherr Wrangell from Addinal (Andrei Ivanovich Wrangel, 1736–1813), Russian General-Lieutenant
  • Friedrich Heinrich Ernst Graf von Wrangel (1784-1877), a Generalfeldmarschall of the Prussian Army.
  • Ferdinand von Wrangel (Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel, 1797–1870), Imperial Russian Navy admiral, Arctic explorer, Governor of Russian Alaska
  • Ferdinand Georg Friedrich von Wrangel (Ferdinand Ferdinandovich Wrangel, 1844–1919)
  • Pyotr Wrangel (Peter von Wrangel, 1878–1928), a leader of the White Army during the Russian Civil War
  • Alexander von Wrangel (Alexander Evataiyevich Wrangel, 1804–1880), Baron, Russian infantry general
  • Alexander Egorovich Wrangell (1833–1915), Baron, Russian diplomat
  • Wilhelm Bernhard Friedrich von Wrangel (Vasily Vasiliyevich Wrangel, 1797–1872), Baron, Imperial Russian Navy admiral
  • Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangel (1816–1860)
  • Georg Gustav Ludwig von Wrangel (Yegor Vasiliyevich Wrangel, 1784–1841)
  • Karl Michael von Wrangel (Karl Yegorovich Wrangel, 1794–1874), Baron Russian cavalry general
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Oskar von Wrangel (1812-1899), Prussian Infantry General
  • Reinhold Otto Fabian von Wrangel (Roman Yegorovich Wrangel, 1797–1884), Russian General of Artillery
  • Karl Karlovich Wrangel (1800–1872), Baron, Russian infantry general
  • Hans Georg Hermann von Wrangel (Yegor Ermolayevich Wrangel, 1803–1868)
  • Karl Gustav von Wrangel (Karl Reingoldovich Wrangel, 1742–1824), Russian infantry general.
  • Georg von Wrangel (Yegor Yegorovich Wrangel, 1827–1875), Russian senator
  • Baroness Helene Von Wrangel (or Vrangel) (1835-1906) Russian painter
  • Michael von Wrangel (Mihhail Yegorovich Wrangel, 1803–1868), Russian General-Lieutenant, Governor of Livland
  • Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangel (1862–1901), composer
  • Margarethe Mathilde von Wrangell (1877–1932), the first female full professor at a German university (University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart)
  • Nikolaus von Wrangel (Nikolai Yegorovich Wrangel, 1847-1920), Baron, author of memoirs, "From Serfdom to Bolshevism"
  • Herman Wrangel (1857–1934), Swedish Count, diplomat, Minister for Foreign Affairs
  • Herman Wrangel (1859–1938), Swedish lieutenant general
  • Herman Wrangel (1864–1945), Swedish major general
  • Nikolai Nikolayevich Wrangel (1880–1915)
  • Olaf von Wrangel (1928–2009), Baron, German parliamentarian

See also

References

  1. "Wrangel - Uppslagsverk - NE.se". www.ne.se. Retrieved 2021-11-28.

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