Wingård


Wingård, is a Danish-Swedish family of German origin from Stuttgart, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire. Hans Wyngarthener emigrated and settled the first printing press in Denmark in the 16th century. His great-grandson Anders Nielsen Wingaard relocated to Sweden as the fourth Lutheran Vicar in Krokstad parish, Diocese of Gothenburg, in Bohuslän. His great-great-great-grandson Carl Fredrik was ennobled af Wingård in 1799 on the merits of his father during the reign of King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden.

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