Hans von Dellingshausen (1641–1705) was a
Swedish
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statesman and soldier. Between 1698 and 1705, he served as the
Governor of
Halland County.
He was born in
Gothenburg
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, named after a great-uncle from
Reval (Tallinn) in
Estonia on March 24, 1641. He left Sweden at age 15 and became a
musketeer
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in the
French
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guards by 1660. In 1663 he had advanced to corporal at French
cavalry
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regiment and fought in the
Portuguese Restoration War
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. He was one of the fighting French soldiers on the Iberian peninsula under the command of
Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg.
1641 births
1705 deaths
Governors of Halland County
Swedish nobility
Swedish people of German descent
17th-century Swedish politicians
17th-century Swedish military personnel
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