Bedoire family

File:Olof Arenius - Maria Juliana Bedoire - S 3 - Finnish National Gallery.jpgThe Bedoire family, also spelled Bédoire,{{Cite book |title=Publications: Serie recherches |publisher=Université de Paris Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines |year=1971 |pages=310 |language=fr |quote=[...] familles d'origine française comme les Bédoire |via=Google Books}} traces its origins to the historical province of Saintonge. The first known member, Jean Bedoire (d. 1721),{{Cite web |year=1922 |title=Bedoire, släkt |url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/mobil/Artikel/18400 |access-date=2 April 2022 |website=Svenskt biografiskt lexikon |publisher=National Archives of Sweden |page=51 |language=sv}} emigrated to Sweden, arriving in Stockholm in 1665 after fleeing religious persecution.{{Cite book |last=Battail |first=Marianne |title=Une amitié millénaire: les relations entre la France et la Suède à travers les âges |last2=Battail |first2=Jean-François |date=1993 |publisher=Editions Beauchesne |isbn=978-2-7010-1281-0 |language=fr |via=Google Books}} He later married Maria (Marique) Carré (1661–1712).{{Cite book |title=Personhistorisk tidskrift |year=1963 |volume=61–63 |pages=66 |language=sv |orig-year=1898 |via=Google Books}}

François "Frans" Bedoire (1690–1743), a director of the Swedish East India Company,{{Cite book |last=Campbell |first=Colin |title=A Passage to China: Colin Campbell's Diary of the First Swedish East India Company Expedition to Canton, 1732–33 |date=1996 |publisher=Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Göteborg |isbn=978-91-85252-55-8 |pages=xx |language=en |via=Google Books}} and Jean Bedoire the Younger were both involved in economic ventures through which they amassed significant wealth. Frans Bedoire married Maria Elisabeth Ross (1703–1738), a member of a Scottish noble family.{{Cite book |title=Matrikel öfwer Swea rikes ridderskap och adel |date=1807 |publisher=Tryckt uti Kongl. tryckeriet. |pages=38 |language=sv |via=Google Books}}{{Cite book |last=Rehbinder |first=Johan Adam |title=Matrikel, innehållande en fortfättning om Swea rikes introducerade ridderskàp och adel; jämte adopterade och introducerade Swenska adeliga ätter |publisher=Anders Jacobsson Nordström |year=1782 |language=sv |quote=[...] Maria Elisabeth Ross (af skotsk adelig härkomst) [...] |via=Google Books}}

The family was considered one of several prominent and influential families within Stockholm's bourgeoisie, with members residing in Gamla Stan.{{Cite book |last=Lundin |first=Claes |title=Gamla Stockholm: anteckningar ur tryckta och otryckta källor |last2=Strindberg |first2=August |author-link2=August Strindberg |publisher=Seligmann |year=1882 |pages=413 |language=sv |via=Google Books}}

File:Bedoirsgrand_March_2007.JPG, in Gamla Stan, Stockholm, was named after Jean Bedoire the Younger]]The Bedoire family maintained connections with several prominent Stockholm families of economic influence through both marriage and financial partnerships. These included the Gother, Toutin, Lefebure,{{Cite book |last=Anrep |first=Gabriel |author-link=Gabriel Anrep |title=Svenska Adelns Ättar-Taflor |isbn=978-3-368-21549-1 |language=sv}} Pauli, Campbell, Montgomery, Jennings and Finlay families.{{Cite news |date=14 June 1900 |title="Borgarfolk". Familjen Bedoire's kvinnogrenar. |url=https://tidningar.kb.se/1767385/1900-06-14/edition/0/part/1/page/5/?q=%20bedoirefamiljen |access-date=2 April 2022 |work=Svenska Dagbladet |language=sv}}{{Cite book |last=Sjöberg |first=Marja Taussi |title=Släkten, pengarna och Caroline Gother |publisher=Lindhardt og Ringhof |isbn=978-87-28-13160-2 |language=sv |via=Google Books}}{{Cite book |last=Lyttkens |first=Alice |title=Hasard med guldmynt |publisher=Albert Bonniers Förlag |isbn=978-91-0-014796-9 |language=sv |via=Google Books}}

Several women of the Bedoire family married merchants and business figures, in addition to maintaining purely economic ties with others. This included two cousins, Magdalena (d. 1751) and Charlotta Bedoire (1725–1808), who both married Herman Petersen, also a director of the Swedish East India Company.{{Cite book |title=Nackaboken |date=1968 |pages=45 |language=sv |via=Google Books}} A business partnership was also established between the families as a trading company, known as Petersen & Bedoire.{{Cite book |last=Sjöstrand |first=Erik |title=Mynt och bankpolitik under Hattväldet 1738–1764 |publisher=Almqvist & Wiksells boktryckeri-a.-b. |year=1908 |language=sv |via=Google Books}} It was through the latter purchases was made on behalf of both the East India Company and the Navy.{{Cite book |last=Müller |first=Leos |title=The Rise of the Atlantic Economy and the North Sea/Baltic Trade, 1500–1800: Proceedings of the XVth World Economic History Congress (Utrecht, Netherlands 2009) |last2=Rössner |first2=Philipp Robinson |last3=Tamaki |first3=Toshiaki |publisher=Steiner |year=2011 |isbn=978-3-515-09874-8 |language=en |via=Google Books}}

In addition to their connections within the purely economic strata of society, members of the Bedoire family also married into other circles of society. In 1845, Augusta Bedoire (1820–1906) married the renowned physicist Anders Ångström.{{Cite book |last=Hofberg |first=Herman |title=Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon: alfabetiskt ordnade lefnadsteckningar af Sveriges namnkunniga män och qvinnor från reformationen till närvarande tid, efter tryckta källor och medelst nya bidrag samlade och utarbetade |date=1876 |publisher=Bonnier |language=sv}} She was the daughter of Jean Henric Bedoire and Catharina Henrietta Littorin.

One member of the Bedoire family was ennobled, Jean de Bedoire, Sweden's envoy to Portugal, while the others remained members of the bourgeoisie. De Bedoire traveled extensively, was regarded by the late Gustav III, and remained a prominent figure within the Bedoire family circle.

The De Bedoire branch of the Bedoire family was created in 1777 when Sweden's envoy to Portugal, and titular governor, Jean de Bedoire was ennobled on 7 May 1777. The De Bedoire branch went extinct when he died on 30 December 1800.{{Cite book |last=Anrep |first=Gabriel |author-link=Gabriel Anrep |title=Svenska adelns Ättar-taflor utgifna af Gabriel Anrep |date=1858 |publisher=P. A. Nōrstedt & Söner |pages=535 |language=sv |chapter=Adel. Ätten De Bedoire, N:o 2133 |via=Google Books}}

• Frans Bedoire
• Jean Bedoire the Younger

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• [https://www.adelsvapen.com/genealogi/De_Bedoire_nr_2133 Genealogy of De Bedoire]

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