Henrikki Laavunpoika of Kankainen

Who is Henrikki Laavunpoika of Kankainen?

knight Henrikki Laavunpoika or Henrik Klasson, lord of Kankainen and Haapaniemi, of Töytärinhovi etc., according to some anachronistic literature surnamed "Horn af Kanckas" was a Finnish in service of Sweden army commander, officer and gentleman of Kankainen. He was the son of the Finnish High Councillor Klaus Henrikinpoika, lord of Joensuu and Kankainen, in Swedish Klas Henriksson, anachronistically Horn, and his second wife Kirsti/Kristina, and uncle of the baron Klaus Kristerinpoika/ commander Klas Kristersson Horn.

Henrikki's elder half-brother. his paternal brother Krister Laavunpoika of Joensuu, bailiff of Turku castle, was decades older than Henrikki and deceased pretty much the same time as their father Klaus, possibly even a bit earlier. Krister left a daughter and a son, the future baron Klaus of Joensuu, the admiral-general.

Knight Henrikki's Coat-of-Arms depicted a drinking horn, like Arms of his paternal forebears already in the 1400s.

Henrikki was born in c1513 or already in 1512 as son of the seventy-year old Klaus of Joensuu, High Councillor, castellan and justiciar, and his second wife lady Kirsti of Salmenkylä of Vehkalahti.