Född Bregårdstorp, Karlskoga, Örebro, Sverige
Soldat
Död i Sonnenberg, Gransee und Gemeinden, Oberhavel, Brandenberg, Baden-Württemberg Tyskland
MANS PERSSON, son of Pers, born 1595 in Sweden, died 17 March 1637 in Sonnenburg, Thuringia, Germany.
Måns was killed in 1637 in a battle at Sonnenburg in Thuringia (today called Słońsk in western Poland) that was part of a Swedish Lutheran military campaign during the Thirty Years War, a religious conflict in which the Protestant and Catholic states of Northern Europe were embroiled in a bitter struggle for dominance. The battle at Sonnenburg took place during the reign of Queen Christina (1632-1654), last monarch of the House of Vasa, who abdicated partly out of her desire to become a Catholic. It was also in 1637 that Queen Christina granted permission for a colony called "New Sweden" to be founded on the lower Delaware River in North America -- the colony was founded in 1638 and its first colonial fort -- at the future site of Wilmimgton, Delaware -- was named Fort Christina in her honor, as was the Christina River in northern Delaware. | |
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