Johan Nilsson Lilliehöök (1598 – 23 October 1642) was a Swedish nobleman and general who served during the Thirty Years' War. He became the Master-General of the Ordnance (Riksfälttygsmästare) and General of the Infantry serving as second-in-command to Field Marshal Lennart Torstenson. He was mortally wounded while commanding the Swedish center at the Second Battle of Breitenfeld in 1642.
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Early life
Johan Lilliehöök was born in 1598 at Fårdala, 15 kilometres east of Falköping, to Nils Andersson Lilliehöök and Brita Hand. He was born into the noble Lilliehöök family, specifically the Lilliehöök af Fårdala branch of the family.
In 1608, Lilliehöök began his education at Uppsala University. Once he had finished his education, in 1615 he entered the royal service as a courtier in King Gustavus Adolphus's Life Guards.