Bengt (Gustafsson) Ribbing

Died 11 Sep 1722 in Boda, Odensvi, Västmanland, Sverige

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Biography

Bengt Ribbing, (son of Gustaf), to Valsta, Odensvi.^[1]

Student in Uppsala 1659. Member of Uppland Regiment 1672. Lieutenant there. 1673. Captain Lieutenant 1676. Captain the same year. Major 1678. Lieutenant Colonel at Jämtland's dragon regiment 1679. Colonel for the same regiment 1705. Honorable discharge in 1710. Died 11 Sep 1722^[2] and buried 30 Sep 1722 with both his wives in Odensvi church.

Married for the first time in the 1680s to the Baroness Maria Magdalena Ulfsparre af Broxvik, born in the 1660s. Died November 1, 1693 in Österby and buried February 18, 1694 in Odensvi Church, daughter of the governor, free lord Åke Ulfsparre af Broxvik, and his first wife, the free lord Christina Stake.

Married the second time to Countess Maria Sperling born in 1671, daughter of the Field Marshal and the Governor General, Liberal Göran Sperling, Count Sperling, and his first wife Ingeborg Lilliehöök af Fårdala, Liberal Lilliehöök.

• Children - 1st marriage

1. Christina, died July 19, 1686.
2. Gustaf, born 1687. Lieutenant Colonel. Died in 1737.
3. Bengt, dead 14 years old.
4. Åke, 13 years old.
5. Maria Magdalena , died May 5, 1755. Married June 9, 1730, in Stockholm, with the life trabant, the cornet of Uppland's three-man cavalry regiment, Olof Johan Amnell, died May 19, 1733, at Boda and buried in Odensvi church.

• Children - 2nd marriage

1. Göran, born in 1696. Student in Uppsala 1711. Musketeer at the lifeguard 1715. Driver there the same year. Sergeant the same year. Fennrik 1716. Lieutenant 1718. Dead unmarried 19 Sep 1727 and buried in Odensvi church. Proved the siege of Fredrikshall.

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.adelsvapen.com/genealogi/Ribbing_nr_15#TAB_11
2. ↑ https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0020019_00017