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Carl Gustaf von Nieroth
(died 1712) was a Swedish officer and
Governor-General of Swedish Estonia
1709?1710 (though not formally installed) and
of Finland
1710?1712.
The exact date and location of his birth are unknown, but believed to be in
Finland
. He was a son of the
Baltic German
Otto Nieroth and Gertrud Baranoff. He was first recorded in 1671 as a
cornet
of the
Swedish Army
in
Swedish Pomerania
. In 1692 he had risen to the rank of
lieutenant colonel
, in 1700 to
major general
and in 1704 to
lieutenant general
.
[
citation needed
]
During the
Great Northern War
Nieroth was involved in several successful battles, the
Battle of Warsaw (1705)
being his greatest success.
After
Viborg was lost
in 1710, Nieroth was sent to try to reclaim it. He assembled 10,000 men, who besieged the city in 1711 but lacked equipment to enter it, and had to retreat. He died suddenly during a temporary halt in Sarvlax manor (
Finnish
:
Sarvilahti
) in
Perna
parish, on 25 January 1712.
He was married on 7 January 1686 in Stockholm to Christina Margareta Horn (d. 17 September 1703).
He was elevated to
friherre
and
count
on 26 June 1706.
References
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- Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon
. Vol. 26. Stockholm. 1989.
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