note on some editorial principles 427 fess. The Bååt family had a boat on its escutcheon, while the Oxenstiernas had bull’s horns. In the course of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, all noble Swedish families started to use a family name. At first, male members of the family travelling abroad used it in the foreign context in the later sixteenth century, while the same people could sign their name with the patronymic in Sweden. Noblewomen did not take their husband’s name or coat-of-arms, still being referred to by their first name and patronymic after marriage.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MjYyNDk=