Conrad Mardefelt
Baron Conrad Mardefelt, formally Conrad von Maesberg, friherre Marderfelt (c. 1610–1688) was a field marshal of Sweden. He was a nobleman of Pomeranian origin.
After having distinguished himself as a fortification officer with Lennart Torstensson, he was entrusted with the command of all the Swedish fortifications on German soil in 1646. He became a general in 1673 and a field marshal in 1675.
King Charles XI created him a freiherr in 1677 with the baronial name Marderfelt (from which some literature has tended to drop one "r").
He was the father of Arvid Axel Mardefelt.[1]
Sources[edit]
- ^ "Marderfelt, Arvid Axel". Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon. Vol. II. 1906. p. 126.
- The article Conrad Mardefelt in Nationalencyklopedin (1994).
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