The Staël von Holstein family is a Baltic German Baronial family originated from Westphalia. History The family, which originated from ancient Rhenish-German nobility, came to Sweden from Livonia during the 17th century via the Polish Major Hildebrand Staël. The family was naturalized as Swedish Nobility on 14 October 1652, and the family was introduced at the Swedish House of Knights on 20 September 1675. Currently the family has been divided in rank and station: one side of the family was raised to baronial status (Swedish: Friherrelig) in Sweden; another, to baronial level within the Russian Empire in 1869. The family has also been introduced in the Estonian and Latvian Houses of Nobility. Famous representatives of the house in chronological order: Johann Stael von Holstein (died 1512), Member of the Livonian Order and Vogt of Järvamaa Matthias Stael von Holstein (died 1649) Jakob Staël von Holstein (1628–1679), Swedish military officer and Marshall von Livonia Johann Staël von Holstein (1636–1703), Swedish military officer and Gutsherr in Ingria Matthias Gustav Stael von Holstein (1666–1720), Swedish military officer Otto Wilhelm Staël von Holstein (1668–1730), Swedish baron and military officer Fabian Ernst Stael von Holstein (1672–1730), Swedish Lieutenant General and Provost of the Baltic Knighthoods Jakob Axel Staël von Holstein (1680–1730), Swedish military officer George Bogislaus Staël von Holstein (1685–1763), Swedish field marshal and governor Johann Staël von Holstein (1698–1751) Jakob Johann Stael von Holstein (1699–1755) Matthias Gustav Stael von Holstein (1702–1754) Fabian Ernst Stael von Holstein (1727–1772), Balto-German politician and head of the Baltic Knighthoods Baron Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein (1749–1802), Swedish baron and diplomat, Ambassador to France and husband of Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (1766–1817) Corfitz Ludwig Staël von Holstein (1753–1819), Swedish military officer and diplomat Karl Gustav Stael von Holstein (1761–1816), Russian military officer Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (1766–1817), French writer, known as Madame de Staël, née Necker Matthias Georg Stael von Holstein (1769–1853) Johann Alexander Staël von Holstein (1798–1868), Russian military officer Berend Fabian Staël von Holstein (1810–1898), Russian major-general Otto Wilhelm Staël von Holstein (1834–1902), Swedish jurist Mathilda Staël von Holstein (1876–1953), Swedish jurist Alexander von Staël-Holstein (1877–1937), Estonian orientalist, sinologist and indologist Nicolas de Staël (1914–1955), French painter Johan Staël von Holstein (born 1963), Swedish IT entrepreneur Baron Jan Stael von Holstein (born 1939) Swedish, Professor, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. David Yen von Staël-Holstein (born 1991) Markus Staël von Holstein (born 1994) References Swedish House of