{"id":16598,"date":"2019-05-18T17:19:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T17:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meijenfeldt.nl\/?page_id=16598"},"modified":"2022-02-26T14:40:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T14:40:08","slug":"armemuseum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/meijenfeldt.nl\/?page_id=16598","title":{"rendered":"Arm\u00e9museum \/ Tetteris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Karin Tetteris, <\/strong><b>Intendent, Enheten f\u00f6r Fakta och F\u00f6rem\u00e5l, Arm\u00e9museum, Box 14095, 104 41 Stockholm, Bes\u00f6ksadress: Riddargatan 13, Tel 08 51 95 63 82 Fax 08 662 68 31, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"mailto:karin.tetteris@armemuseum.se\">karin.tetteris@armemuseum.se<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">CH-672<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bilthoven, 20 april 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Dear Ms. Tetteris,<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One year ago there was a request to reach out to you in case an ancestor took part in the Battle of Narva. Because I found this request only today, My e-mail\u00a0is probably too late for your exposition.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My name is Hugo von Meijenfeldt.\u00a0I am living in Bilthoven, the Netherlands. I am the son in the 7th degree of\u00a0the Swedish count Johan August von Meijerfeldt (1664-1749),\u00a0who stood very close to king Carl XII.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Having served\u00a0in the Netherlands\u00a0against the French, my ancestor\u00a0returned to his hometown Riga in Livland after the Peace of Rijswijk (1697). On 2 June\u00a01700 he was &#8220;\u00f6verstel\u00f6jtnant f\u00f6r en skvadron v\u00e4rvade ryttare&#8221;. Nordberg (part I, page 91) writes that general Vellingk sent him 20 July\u00a0on a mission, although he uses the first name of his older brother major Carl Fredrik Meijerfeldt (1661-1709).<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Under Vellingk Johan August\u00a0went to Wesenberg\u00a0in Estland, to join king Carl XII in his march to\u00a0Narva on 16 November.\u00a0I have no source, but I assume that he fought with his 100\u00a0cavalier\u00a0squadron on the left wing under Vellingk. His brother major Carl Fredrik stayed in the governors regiment in Riga.\u00a0Where the\u00a0third brother Wolmar Johan Meijerfeldt (1667-1739) was at that time is not clear to me.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Details are (in Dutch) on my website <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.meijenfeldt.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.meijenfeldt.nl&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1558192036295000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEevqBS95Ux4jLxdDRR5-FhaCN2wQ\">www.meijenfeldt.nl<\/a><\/span>. If you have any details for me I would be most happy.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thank you in advance,<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hugo von Meijenfeldt<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Stockholm 23 april 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dear Mr Von Meijenfeldt,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thank you for your email. I have a Dutch colleague who will help me look at your website and see if there is anything we can add to your ancestors history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Best regards,<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Karin Tetteris<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Bilthoven, 10 oktober 2020<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dear Karin Tetteris,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One and a half year ago we had an exchange of letters. See below. You were speaking of a Dutch colleague who could have a look at my website and see if there is anything to add. Could you tell the outcome, if any?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance for the trouble taken,<br \/>\n<strong>Hugo von Meijenfeldt<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karin Tetteris, Intendent, Enheten f\u00f6r Fakta och F\u00f6rem\u00e5l, Arm\u00e9museum, Box 14095, 104 41 Stockholm, Bes\u00f6ksadress: Riddargatan 13, Tel 08 51 95 63 82 Fax 08 662 68 31, karin.tetteris@armemuseum.se CH-672 Bilthoven, 20 april 2019 Dear Ms. Tetteris, One year ago there was a request to reach out to you in case an ancestor took part &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/meijenfeldt.nl\/?page_id=16598\" class=\"more-link\">Verder lezen <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arm\u00e9museum \/ Tetteris<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16598","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meijenfeldt.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meijenfeldt.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meijenfeldt.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meijenfeldt.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meijenfeldt.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16598"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/meijenfeldt.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45013,"href":"https:\/\/meijenfeldt.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16598\/revisions\/45013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meijenfeldt.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}