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History
The core of the De la Gardie Archive consists of family archives assembled for generations at the Sjöö estate in Uppland. They were transferred to Löberöd in Skåne in the 1820's by Count and Field Marshal Jacob Gustaf De la Gardie, who also expanded the collections by adding his own material. At Löberöd the documents were sorted and listed during the first half of the 19th century by Peter Wieselgren.
The collections came to the University Library mainly on two separate occasions, in 1848 and 1892. Further additions came in the 1930's when the library acquired De la Gardie material from Hapsal in Estonia. In the end of the 1960's more documents and an extensive collections of maps and engravings came from Borrestad in Skåne.
Parts of the archive from Sjöö came to Estonia through Magnus Julius De la Gardie (1669-1791), and were moved after his death to the Tartu University Library.
Letter from Karl X Gustav to Field
Marshal Axel Lillie, on 19 March
1658. The king commands troops
from Småland and Öland to
Malmö, Landskrona and
Kristianopel.
(Click on the image to see an
enlargement.)