Bergenstråhle is a Swedish noble and baronial family descended from the ironworks owner Gabriel Wetterberg (1665–1729) and his stepsons Jonas and Lorentz Rudman, who were ennobled in 1719. The family split into the Wetterberg and Rudman branches, producing notable military leaders including Major Generals Gustaf and Johan Bergenstråhle and General Adjutant Claes Gabriel Bergenstråhle, two of whom were elevated to baronial rank in the 19th century. The first baronial line became extinct in 1829, the second in 1864, and the Rudman branch also died out in Finland in 1916. The noble family Ehrenst
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Bergenstråhle is a Swedish noble and baronial family descended from the ironworks owner Gabriel Wetterberg (1665–1729) and his stepsons Jonas and Lorentz Rudman, who were ennobled in 1719. The family split into the Wetterberg and Rudman branches, producing notable military leaders including Major Generals Gustaf and Johan Bergenstråhle and General Adjutant Claes Gabriel Bergenstråhle, two of whom were elevated to baronial rank in the 19th century. The first baronial line became extinct in 1829, the second in 1864, and the Rudman branch also died out in Finland in 1916. The noble family Ehrenstedt descends from the same lineage.
==History== The noble (adlig) and baronial (friherrlig) Bergenstråhle family traces its origins to the ironworks owner Gabriel Wetterberg (1665–1729) and his stepsons, later assessor of the Court of Appeal (1689–1761) and Captain Lorentz Rudman (1694–1760), who were ennobled on 28 November 1719 under the same name and number (No. 1696) and introduced at the Swedish House of Nobility in 1720.
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