KINNEMOND, ROBERT [SSNE 508]

Surname
KINNEMOND, KININMUN, KINDMUNDT, KINNIMUND, KINNIMUNDUS, KINNIMOTH, KINNIMOUTH,
First name
ROBERT
Nationality
SCOT
Region
STOCKHOLM
Social status
NOBILITY
Education
UNIVERSITY
Religion
LUTHERAN

Text source

Robert Kinnimond was the son of the Scottish burgess Hans Kinnemond [SSNE 1630] and Barbro Nyman. He was born in Stockholm in 1647 and studied at Uppsala in 1659, Åbo in 1660-2 and Uppsala again in 1663. He gained a degree in philosophy in 1670. Robert became a tutor to the young Frederik Stenbock, Count of Bogesund, son of Swedish military and government official Count Erik Stenbock, in 1671. By 1674 Kinnemond was a court gentleman to Count Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna on his embassy to Vienna. Robert also visited Nuremberg where he left his signature and a quote in French in a student named Hans Eberhard Krafft von Dellmensingen's autograph album.

In 1678 he was a noterie in Kammarkollegium. In 1683 he was a secretary in the 'berg' college and an assessor there in 1690. Robert Kinnemond finally became a 'berg' councillor in 1713 and died in 1720. He married twice; First to the noblewoman Cathrina Sofia Eldstjerna (1661-1689) in St Nicolai (Storkyrkan) church in Stockholm in 1679. He buried and had a service for her in Klara Kyrka on 10 July and 9 October 1689. He then wed to Anna Christina Berentz/Berentsdotter (died 1723) and had children with her, some of whom died young and were buried in Klara. He was naturalised as a Swede and ennobled 07/12/1680 under number 971. Robert had a brother called John [SSNE 793].

"Domum redux notarariatum regiae camerae suscripit, mox nobilitatus A:O 1680 cum ex antiqua nobili inter Scotos familia, se ortum decede probasset, nomen sumsit kinninmundt constituitur secretarius r. colleg : metall: nunc ejusdem adsessor. Consilarius".

Sources: Riksarkivets ämnessamlingar. Personhistoria https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0070104_00242#?c=&m=&s=&cv=241&xywh=2795%2C2412%2C3691%2C2129

Stockholm Stadsarkiv, Klara församlings register över döda, 1680 - 1710, p.170; Swedish Riksarkiv, Bergskollegii skrivelser till Kung. Maj:t. 1640-1840 - Robbert Kinnimundt, sec. i bergskollegium och Bergsrad, 6/12/1688, 11/04/1713 and 26/11/1719; Swedish Riksarkiv, Landshövdingens i Sodermanlands Lan, Skrivelser till Kungl; Maj:t 1649-1840 - Robert Kinnemond, 09/05/1688 (re exchange of a house in Vagnharads parish), 28/10/1690 (re exchange of a farm he had bought from the crown) and his widow, 17/11/1722

See also: Johan Kileberg (ed.), Svenska Ambetsverk, Del. VI:I Kammarkollegium 1634-1718 (Norrkoping, 1957), p.108; G. Elgenstierna, Svenska Adelns Attartavlor, vol. 4, p.127; H. Marryat, One Year in Sweden, including a visit to the isle of Gotland (London, 1862), p.491; G. Thimon (ed.), Stockholms Nations Studenter i Uppsala, 1649-1800 (Uppsala, 1982), p.45; Abo Akademis Student Matrikel, 1889-91; Andersson et al, Uppsala Universitets Matrikel, (Uppsala, 1900-1911); T. Fischer, The Scots in Sweden, (Edinburgh, 1907), p.33; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), pp.191, 216. With thanks to Thomas Brochard for the autograph album reference, see his article "Scots and Scandinavians as seen through Alba Amicorum, 1540s-1720s", Northern Studies, vol.52 (2021), pp104-5. 

Service record

SWEDEN, UPPSALA
Arrived 1658-01-01
Departed 1659-12-31
Capacity STUDENT, purpose ACADEMIC
SWEDEN, ABO, FINLAND
Arrived 1661-01-01
Departed 1662-12-31
Capacity STUDENT, purpose ACADEMIC
SWEDEN, UPPSALA
Arrived 1663-01-01
Departed 1663-12-31
Capacity STUDENT, purpose ACADEMIC
SWEDEN, KAMMARKOLLEGIUM
Arrived 1664-01-01
Departed 1720-12-31
Capacity NOTARIE, BERGSRAD. COUNCILLOR, purpose CIVIC, TRADE