Hedvig Eleonora von Fersen

Who was Hedvig Eleonora von Fersen?

Hedvig Eleonora von Fersen was a Swedish noble, lady in waiting to the Swedish queen, Sophia Magdalena of Denmark. She was the daughter of Axel von Fersen the Elder and Hedvig Catharina De la Gardie and the sister of Count Axel von Fersen the Younger and Sophie Piper. In 1773, she married marshal Count Thure Leonard Klinckowström in his second marriage, and with him had four children. among them the artist Hedvig Amalia Charlotta Klinckowström and Axel Leonhard Klinckowström, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences and la Société pour l'encouragement de l'industrie nationale.