Counties and Baronies in Finland - Creation of Baronies Under Queen Christina I

Creation of Baronies Under Queen Christina I

Queen Christina I of Sweden was a most profligate donator, having created more than half of the ever existed baronies, during 1647-54:

• county of Wasaborg to Gustaf Gustafsson, her illegitimate half-brother
• county of Kuressaare (Arensburg), in Saaremaa, today Estonia (later exchanged to Pärnu in continental coast of today Estonia) to Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie and his brothers
• county of Sortavala to Johan Adam Banér
• county of Pori to Gustaf Horn
• county of Korsholm and Wasa to Gabriel Oxenstierna
• county of Salmi and Suistamo pogosta to Carl Gustaf Wrangel
• county of Kronborg to Ture Oxenstierna
• barony of Loimijoki and county of Nyypori to Arvid Wittenberg
• county of Karleborg to Klas Tott
• barony of Korppoo to count Nils Bielke
• barony of Kajaneborg to count Per Brahe
• barony of Örneholma to Juhana Adler-Salvius
• barony of Liperi pogosta to Hermann Fleming
• barony of Oulu to Erik Gyllenstierna
• barony of Kitee pogosta to count Axel Lillie
• barony of Limingo to Matias Soop
• barony of Marienburg (in Livonia) to Gustaf Horn and certain his relatives
• barony of Vöråborg to Göran Paijkull
• barony of Tohmajärvi pogosta to Lars Kagg
• barony of Kokkola to Gustaf Banér
• barony of Laihia to Carl Bonde
• barony of Pyhäjoki to Klas Bielkenstierna
• barony of Iijoki to Åke Axelsson Tott
• barony of Ikalapori to Schering Rosenhane
• barony of Hailuoto to Berndt Taube
• Hans Wachtmeister Baron of Koivisto
• Johan Kurck baron of Lempäälä
• Jakob and Anders Lilliehöök barons of Närpes
• Kasper and Carl Henric Wrede barons of Elimä
• Erik Fleming baron of Lais, near Tartu in what is now Estonia

After Christina's reign, fiefs were soon to be confiscated, but yet Charles X Gustav created P. Wuertz baron of Örneholma that had fallen extinct.