Mannerheim
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Mannerheim is a surname of two well-known nobility lineages registered in Finland and Sweden.
Baronial lineage
(nr 18 of Finnish House of Knights register)
The family originates from a Dutch businessman and a mill owner Henrik Marhein from Gävle. His son, Augustin Marhein was raised to the nobility in 1693 and introduced under the nr 1260 and with the name Mannerheim. His son, an artillery colonel and a mill supervisor, Johan Augustin Mannerheim was raised to a status of a baron at the same time with his brother in 1768 and was introduced in 1776 under nr 277. The family was immatriculated in Finland in 1818. Mannerheim family came to Finland in the latter part of 18th century.
Count lineage
(nr 8 of Finnish House of Knights register)
Baron Johan Augustin Mannerheim's son, a vice-president of the Finnish senates department of economy, governor of Åbo and Björneborg's province, first major of the Åbo provice infantry regiment, member of the Secret council, baron Carl Erik Mannerheim of the baronial lineage nr 18 was given a hereditary title of a count in 1824 and introduced 1825. The title is inherited by the oldest son.
Reintroduced in the Swedish nobility in 1947 and 1953.