Johan Axelsson Oxenstierna af Södermöre (24 June 1611 – 5 December 1657) was a Count and a
Swedish
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statesman.
Biography
The son of
Lord High Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna
Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna af Södermöre (; 1583–1654), Count of Södermöre, was a Swedish statesman. He became a member of the Swedish Privy Council in 1609 and served as Lord High Chancellor of Sweden from 1612 until his death. He was a c ...
, he was born in
Stockholm
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. He completed his studies at
Uppsala in 1633, and was sent by his father on a grand tour through France, the
Netherlands and Great Britain. He served under his brother-in-law
Count Gustav Horn af Björneborg
Count Gustav Horn af Björneborg (October 22, 1592 – May 10, 1657) was a Finnish nobleman of the Swedish Empire, military officer, and Governor-General.
He was appointed member of the Royal Council in 1625, Field Marshal in 1628, Governor ...
in the
Thirty Years' War from 1632, and was subsequently employed by his father in various
diplomatic missions, though his instructions were always so precise and minute that he was little more than the executor of the Chancellor's wishes. He was one of the commissioners who signed the
truce of 1635 with Poland (
Armistice of Stuhmsdorf
The Treaty of Stuhmsdorf ( sv, Stilleståndet i Stuhmsdorf), or Sztumska Wieś ( pl, Rozejm w Sztumskiej Wsi), was a treaty signed on 12 September 1635 between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Swedish Empire in the village of Stuhmsd ...
or
Treaty of Sztumska Wieś), and in 1639, much against his father's will, was made a
Privy Councillor
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.
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he represented Sweden at the great peace
congress of Osnabrück, but as he received his instructions direct from his father, whereas Salvius was in the confidence of
Queen Christina, the two "legates" were constantly at variance. From 1650 to 1652 he was
Governor General of
Swedish Pomerania.
King Charles X Gustav made him
Marshal of the Realm.
See also
*
Polish-Swedish War
Notes
External links
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1611 births
1657 deaths
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